What does it mean when you crave sweets?
And how can you stop craving sweets?
In this post I detail my journey on how I greatly reduced my marijuana cravings ...
By allowing myself to smoke weed, whenever I wanted.
It sounds crazy. But it actually works.
The key is to realize that when you normally consume sweets, you are in a state of mind of either guilt, shame, deprivation, disconnection, mindless eating, or stress.
If you could just eat the sweets without being in one of these negative states of mind, then you would realize that sweets don't actually taste good!
I've done the same thing with marijuana.
For years I've struggled with marijuana, sometimes calling myself dependent upon weed.
Yet now, after trying every sort of restriction available, I've finally stumbled onto a real strategy that works.
And this strategy equally applies to craving sweets as well.
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For another post about how to reduce cravings for sugary foods, or for that matter foods in general, you can watch this video here:
Sugar Addiction Is Actually Emotional Not Physical: How To Stop Emotional Eating Via Self-Compassion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Gdu...
This post is mainly about my experience with weed personally.
How I have struggled for years trying to reduce weed cravings ...
How I started smoking weed in college ...
Everyday ...
And then I would realize in college that I had a problem.
Normal people weren't smoking as much weed as I was.
Sure, my "friends" were smoking just as much weed as I, or even more ...
But that didn't deceive me ...
I knew I had a problem. I knew weed wasn't good for me.
I knew my memory wasn't as good. I knew I was avoiding socializing with people and instead smoking in my room. I knew I wasn't being my best self.
But I still kept on smoking.
I'd say I'd stop. And I would. For a month, two weeks, or even for a longer period of time ...
I would stop.
But I'd always be nervously thinking about weed in the back of my mind ...
Sometimes I'd forget about it ...
But oftentimes I would find myself avoiding my friends who smoked weed.
Judging those who smoked weed.
And then somehow ... I'd end up smoking again.
And once I started smoking again ...
Then it would be months where I would just smoke continuously.
Months would go by ... in a blur ...
And then I would stop again for a few weeks or a few months ...
And this pattern went on for years...
And during this time I was going to therapy, practicing self-development skills like leadership and getting more sleep and while going to school to be a therapist ...
It really bugged me that despite all this work on myself ...
I was still an addict.
I was still secretly smoking weed, to my great embarrassment.
How was I supposed to help people if I was still using weed to take care of myself?
True, on one hand I had progressed immensely.
I had truly made tremendous strides in my leadership and self-care ...
I was braver, stronger, healthier, more social, more confident, just a better person ...
So in that respect I could help people ...
But there was part of me that was still trapped by weed.
Despite all my growth, I was still succumbing to weed.
This one thing was holding me back.
I couldn't figure it out.
And then I hear about Intuitive Eating.
Specifically, I hear about the 'unconditional eating' aspect of Intuitive Eating.
This is where you give yourself full emotional permission to eat food.
There's more context that's incredibly useful to understand too.
Such as how restriction causes deprivation ...
About how lack of self-care fuels cravings ...
About how unconditional eating leads to boredom, habituation, and makes your body want something else ...
As I started to internalize these concepts as I studied Intuitive Eating ...
I realized I could apply them to weed.
I saw how that my attempts to restrict weed only caused me to be at war with weed.
And so one day I decided to try unconditional weed.
I gave myself full permission to smoke weed.
I bought a disposable vape.
I treated myself.
I tried to enjoy smoking weed whenever I smoked.
I tried to be mindful whenever I smoked ...
And I gave myself full permission to smoke, whenever I wanted.
I was responsible, I never went to work or school high ...
But afterwards I would smoke...
And paradoxically ...
I would smoke a lot in the beginning...
But after a week or so ...
I didn't want weed.
And the weird thing was ...
Because I KNEW I could have weed if I wanted ...
I KNEW I didn't have to have weed.
Previously I would always be regretful about having to stop weed.
I would say to myself "better smoke a lot now because I won't smoke again for awhile."
But now this was a completely different shift.
I didn't wanted to smoke weed.
I knew I could, if I wanted to, but I didn't want to.
So that's how this whole principle works.
Go try and let me know your experience!
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