I didn’t know about the artificial sweeteners part, but my experience aligns to the rest: after a handful of days without sugar and refined carbs, the urges went away.
I didn’t know about the artificial sweeteners part, but my experience aligns to the rest: after a handful of days without sugar and refined carbs, the urges went away.
Same here. Last month I removed all foods with added sugars and sweeteners. Week two was a little rough (not too bad), but I stopped thinking about it so much by week three. At this point, I keep the no added sugars/sweeteners rule during weekdays and relax it a bit on weekends.
There's more in this book about the polyol pathways, including more on this point about alcohol. I can also confirm that almost 100% of the time that I have a drink I end up wanting something sweet!