Joseph Casciani explains why quitting sugar is hard: your body needs three to four weeks to readjust, and your saliva changes so everything tastes sweeter. Real change comes from small steps, not overnight overhauls.
When you commit— important word— when you decide that you're going to improve your health by quitting sugar, it takes 3 or 4 weeks for your body to change because you're addicted. Sugar is addictive. And so when you quit, processes in your body will be going, "Wait, what the— you know, what's happening? We have to readjust." And it takes about 3 weeks for your saliva to change, but your saliva will change. Things will taste different to you. They taste sweeter than they did.
Yeah, yeah, the commitment is huge. That's, uh, and I always say we change behavior in small steps. It's hard to do it overnight. We take small steps and we see a little bit of progress, and another small step
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