Retrain your body's response to sweets

Retrain your body's response to sweets.
If you are overweight, you have likely trained your hormone system to respond very aggressively to sweets. As soon as anything sweet hits your mouth your body will instantly release insulin. This occurs even when it does not need it, such as when you are using low calorie sweeteners. Pavlov proved this principle over 100 years ago.
He began to feed his dogs in association with the ringing of a bell. After a certain time the dogs were shown to salivate profusely in association with the ringing bell even when the actual sight or smell of food was not present. Pavlov regarded this salivation as being a conditioned reflex and designated the process by which the dogs had picked up this reflex classical conditioning.
You have also experienced this conditioning. You've developed a link between your taste buds and your brain that will cause your body to produce insulin the moment you eat anything sweet, even if it is not grains or sugar. This will sabotage your efforts to lose weight successfully, as you will keep on having cravings for sugar and grains.
Refined sugar can also cause a physical addiction, as it has been found to be far more addictive than cocaine -- one of the most addictive and harmful substances currently known. Researchers speculate that the sweet receptors (two protein receptors located on your tongue), which evolved in ancestral times when the diet was very low in sugar, have not adapted to modern times’ high-sugar consumption.

Therefore, the abnormally high stimulation of these receptors by a sugar-rich diet generates excessive reward signals in your brain, which have the potential to override normal self-control mechanisms, and thus lead to a very real addiction.

So what can you do?

It's a matter of re-educating your taste buds, and breaking the cycle of addiction. To do this, it is essential to AVOID ALL sweets for a few weeks.Once you clean your palate of sugar and simple carbs, foods will taste better than ever. You can use this as an opportunity to explore the use of spices and organic foods, as they typically taste much better after you modify your body's response to sugar.

Energy psychology tools like the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) can be enormously helpful in kicking the sugar habit if you find your cravings are hard to resist. You can use EFT to successfully treat a wide variety of emotional stresses, including the food cravings and emotional responses related to sugar and grains