A few years ago, I developed an afternoon sugar snack addiction. I will share with you how I broke my afternoon sugar snack addiction in a minute, but first…

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Now onto how I broke my afternoon sugar snack addiction…

In the fall of 2022, after I had been back to working in an office for 6 months, I got into the habit of having something sweet after my lunch.

I “needed” chocolate.

Of course I usually opted for 70% cacao chocolate, usually HU chocolate, Blue Stripes Whole Cacao, or an Unreal brand treat… BUT, while I was opting for “better” choices, I craved the sugar AND…

1. this sugar craving had become a habit, and
2. sometimes I would indulge in not the best choices like processed sugar Hershey’s kisses and miniatures that were in the office, or homemade cookies that a co-worker had brought into the office.

I wanted to break the habit, but at the same time I also enjoyed it too much. I felt comforted with this post lunch, afternoon sweet treat.

Fast forward to the fall of 2023, I resigned from my office job in Las Vegas and moved to New Orleans to be with my husband who had moved to Louisiana in the spring of 2023 for his job.

Being forced into a new routine because of an interstate move, I decided it was time to once and for all disrupt this afternoon sugar habit.

I decided to go cold turkey and started by conducting a “diet audit” on my daily macros and food choices to see what was contributing to my sugar cravings.

I discovered that not only had I been undereating calories and macros in general – subconsciously I had been “saving” calories for my afternoon sugar addiction – but also, I was undereating protein.

Over 45, eating enough daily protein is what’s going to change your body composition, not your daily sugar addiction. Your daily sugar addiction will just feed the midlife weight gain and belly fat.

I increased my protein macros from 110g protein to 125g to 135g of protein per day, added a small pre-workout meal, and increased my overall daily macros/calories.

At first I had days here and there that indulged in some Undercover dark chocolate quinoa crisps or dark chocolate in the pantry, but within a few weeks I stopped having the sugar cravings and got to a point that I didn’t even think about having something sweet after lunch.

I was patient with myself because I know that:

• The first 3 days of eliminating something from your diet is the hardest, especially if its sugar or caffeine
• ​​Your taste buds regenerate every 2 weeks. As a result, when you reintroduce a challenge food after eliminating it for a period of time, then you will not have the same taste for it, or a taste for it at all.
• It takes 30 days to break a habit you’ve built around the comfort food

Now when I’m hungry, or craving a little something in the late afternoon I’ll have some high fiber berries and a whey protein shake in water and it keeps me satiated until dinner.

As a result of increasing my protein intake, I eliminated the belly fat that had started to grow, and improved my body composition.

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