Valentine’s Day is coming, and whether you have a special someone or not, there is a big risk you will overindulge in the candies and other goodies. I especially love chocolates, but lets face it, chocolate has a lot of sugar!
Have you heard of the term, “Sugar Hangover”? This is what happens the day after candy and sugar galore, often resulting in an upset stomach, headache, lethargy, brain fog, skin problems, joint pain, mood swings, allergy symptoms, and of course, regret.
Fortunately, there are several things you can do to recover from a sugar hangover:
- Quit eating sweets. You cannot recover from a sugar hangover if you continue to eat candy the next day! Try eating healthful protein every two to three hours, eating a good breakfast, and avoiding starchy foods, desserts, and sweet drinks (soda, sweet coffee drinks) that spike blood sugar. Starch is another form of sugar! So try avoiding potatoes, bananas and white bread. Instead focus on quality proteins, leafy vegetables, and good sources of fat (olive oil, avocado, coconut oil, salmon, etc.)
- Got Water? This is one of the best things you can do to recover. Staying hydrated with clean filtered water will help flush your body of toxins and aid in recovery. I wonder if green tea will be even better as it is a natural diuretic.
- Love your liver. Like alcohol, processing an overload of sweets burdens your liver. Help your liver flush these toxins with liver detox nutrients as milk thistle, dandelion, N-acetyl L-cysteine, beet root, panax ginseng, and more. Don’t these sound familiar? You also use these nutrients for an alcohol hangover that I described in my last post here.
- Restore your intestines. Sweets cause inflammation, promote overgrowth of harmful yeast and bacteria, and irritate the gastric lining. This can lead to painful ulcers that don’t let you sleep at night! Try eating plain yogurt as it will help your liver restore its good bacteria.
- Get a gentle workout. Try doing a brisk walk, a swim, dance or some other gentle exercise will get your lymphatic system pumping and blood flowing to help flush toxins and rejuvenate your cells. You want to avoid extremely vigorous exercise until hangover symptoms subside so as not to further promote inflammation
- Take Chamomille: This relaxing tea is anti-inflammatory reducing the inflation caused by an overload of sugar.
Taken From:
http://midlifewithoutcrisis.com/2011/12/how-to-recover-from-a-sugar-hangover/
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thanks for the valentine’s day warning! I will try to keep away from lovey dovey stuff as well as from excess sugar hahaha
Maybe flowers would be a better alternative!
Love this post! I only suffered from a sugar hangover the other day! Could have used a few of these tips!
Ha! Yeah, I get a headache when I have to much sugar!
Reblogged this on Ah-Da-Lin: Meanie @ Work and commented:
Suffering a sugar hangover from all the goodies from Chinese New Year? This is what you need!
Thanks for the great post!
Thank you for taking you time and reading this!
Oh these are some great tips! Love love love.
Thank you! It is amazing how fast and often these things happen. I am happy you read this so close to Valentine’s day.