Quitting junk food through willpower backfires because restriction intensifies cravings. Instead, replace the reward: use stevia or monk fruit to bake cookies, recreate fast-food burgers at home, or swap video games for exercise. Master tasty homemade recipes and cravings become habits that serve you.
Now you probably think that your only option to get rid of eating junk food and sugar and basically anything that's unhealthy is to abstain from it or use willpower every time you're against it. But that's the worst way to do it. Now think about it. Do you really think you're gonna last your whole life not eating one junk food? When you abstain, bro, when you abstain from something, you end up craving it way more. So the solution, the best solution is to have a replacement for that thing. Something that gives the same rewards for the same craving basically. So if for example you want to stop eating sweeties, then instead of eating like, I don't know, like a box of whatever, like candies, like a box of candies, right? Instead of eating that, then What you can do is, okay, when you crave sweeties, you crave basically like the feeling of sugar. You crave the dopamine that comes from sugar, you know, the, uh, and like the effect it has on your brain. That's what you crave, right? Your brains crave that. So okay, let's say you have that craving. Instead, you want to satisfy that craving. That's the thing you want to do. You don't want to abstain from that craving. You want to satisfy from the craving first before trying to abstain in the long run. But most of the time, bro, you want to have a replacement for something. For if you have an addiction, you need a replacement. If, for example, someone, someone is addicted to video games, maybe his replacement will be working out, something that gives him the same feeling of, you know, basically the same benefit. I'm not going to talk about this, but you want to stop eating sweeties, you want to stop eating candies and everything, okay? So when you have the craving for a sweetie then for something sweet, you want to basically just use— you want to satisfy that desire, you want to satisfy that craving by, you know, instead of eating a sweetie that is full of sugar, full of like, you know, trash food and everything, trash ingredients, you use maybe a no-sugar sweetener like stevia, maybe like monk fruit, anything. And you make a, let's say, a cookie, a cookie out of it, and you search up on YouTube how to make a tasty cookie, like a sweet cookie but healthy, and that's going to satisfy your desire. Plus, you're going to feel more good because you're eating something healthy. You want to stop eating McDonald's every day, for example, then go on YouTube and search up how to make a tasty hamburger. You can even make hamburger that tastes like the one on McDonald's. And what's gonna happen is maybe you're gonna have the craving for, you know, let's say a McDonald's hamburger. But what's gonna happen is the reward is gonna be the same. You're gonna feel good because you're taking literally an hamburger, like a real hamburger that looks like and tastes like McDonald's. So it's gonna satisfy your desire, it's gonna satisfy your craving, but it's not good. It's actually gonna benefit you because it's healthy, quote unquote, okay? So you want to keep the reward, like the benefit, the same. And the craving, don't worry too much about it, but you want to keep the benefit the same. You want to satisfy that desire but in a healthy manner. So you want to replace things. Me, for example, I don't crave junk food at all. Why? Because I know how to make recipes that taste good. I know how to make recipes that actually like satisfy my need for like tasty food. Because, you know, I don't need to go out and eat like junk food or like restaurant food or anything because, man, I can go on YouTube and make the same recipe, tastes better, better ingredients, better for my health, actually tastes better like I said, and boy, it's just like better for me, bro.
