cious in both baking and at breakfast time, this can be a great way to focus on hitting your five a day too. If you want fruit which is out of season, consider a tinned option. Tinned fruit has a long shelf life, is more cost-effective than fresh, and if you buy "in juice" rather than "in syrup" is a healthy option. This is an incredibly tasty addition to breakfast smoothies.
4. Set Boundaries
If you know you struggle to stop eating those trigger foods once you start, you may want to consider keeping them out of your home and saving them for special occasions. There is nothing wrong with being strict with yourself if you know it frees up mental energy you'd otherwise spend in an internal battle trying to resist those foods.
You could also consider lower sugar alternatives; this can be useful, but be aware that instead of sugars, food manufacturers will sometimes substitute fats to preserve taste. Although dietary fats help maintain feelings of fullness, and healthy fats are essential in a balanced diet, they are calorific. So consume these foods mindfully and in moderation.
5. Focus on Portion Size
If you love sweet foods, and you particularly want to keep them in your diet, there's an argument to be made for this. Eliminating your favourite foods can reduce dietary compliance in some people, and lead to the diet being abandoned as being too strict.
If that sounds like you, consider keeping sweet foods in the diet and putting your effort into enjoying a small portion of these favourites. You could use portion sizing to reduce calories (eat one square of chocolate after every evening meal), or you could use timeboxing to reduce calories (on a Saturday evening, I like to enjoy a piece of cake with a film). Either strategy would work for staying lean.
6. Get Enough Sleep
It may seem like an odd way to reduce sugar consumption. Still, research has consistently demonstrated that when deprived of either quality sleep or a sufficient quantity of sleep, it becomes harder to make good food choices. The foods people prefer to select when tired are those high sugar options, and people tend to eat more of them than they would if they were adequately rested.
There's nothing inherently wrong with sugar in your diet, especially when it comes from whole food sources such as fruit or milk. But refined sugars are "hyper-palatable", and that makes them easy to overeat.
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