When people eat sweets to satisfy more than just a want, it may be a sign that there are deeper issues at play than just a demanding sweet tooth. When we are having emotional or psychological problems, such as a bad day at work, problems with a romantic partner, concern about money, etc., we unconsciously crave sweets barfi. Recognising these urges for what they are and comprehending their causes is the first step in controlling them.
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Through the analysis of feedback and close observation, we have learned from our customers that the attitudes, behaviours, and habits that seem to result in cravings can be traced back to their formative years. Primary carers are often the major contributors to this conditioning effect, although friends, peers, and family members also seem to have an impact.
The list below includes the justifications we’ve gathered from client circumstances that explain how this early start conditioning occurs and how it might have a lasting effect. kindly consider
“You won’t get any sweets until you finish everything on your plate!”
In many of the homes of our clients, this was a common form of discipline used by parents, grandparents, and even babysitters. Despite the fact that this strategy was intended to enforce discipline, it had the opposite effect because it elevated sweets to a particular prize in a child’s eyes and required them to overindulge in order to get it.
The formation of a habit is the result of this strategy’s long-term conditioning. Kids now tend to eat even after they are full because of this predisposition. Once the meal is over, they are compelled by nature to finish it with something sweet. Sometimes, despite no longer being hungry, because it is just a habit.
Some of our clients recall receiving treats frequently as rewards when they were younger for doing well in school, behaving well, performing well in sports, or achieving other notable goals. In the end term, only providing them with a means of rationalisation.
Effect of Long-Term training: As an adult, this training resulted in a natural need for sweets following success or other achievements.
Unfortunately, when their parents offered them candy to soothe them down, some of our clients’ parents were major perpetrators of negative conditioning. In this instance, candy was provided to the children to calm them down while they were crying, depressed, or acting out.
Long-term Training Effect: In the majority of situations, this training caused our clients to grab for sweets right away to dull uncomfortable emotions or negative feelings rather than facing them.
In one case, a client with weight issues had a challenging childhood. Her grandma had made an effort to make her life a little easier by spending time with her and frequently taking her out for fish and chips. This customer naturally perceived these as wonderful, deeply personal memories that also happened to be connected to…eating.
Long-Term Conditioning’s Effects As a direct result of these unfortunate incidents, this client began to automatically turn to eating fish and chips to find solace anytime she felt any negative emotions, such as anger, grief, disappointment, or fear, unknowingly recalling a good memory to ease the pain. This client understood why she had these desires after hearing about the conditioning response. She had no idea why she had them before. As was previously mentioned, this is typically the first step towards recovery.
Because they were either forbidden from doing so or, if they did, they faced consequences, some of our clients claim they struggle with self-control when it comes to eating sweets.
Long-term Conditioning Effect: As a result, whenever sweets are presented to them, they instinctively feel motivated to eat as much as they can.
Last but not least, one of our clients simply experienced having sweets as a child. We were able to pinpoint the “problem component,” which was this client’s mother, as her “sugar addiction.” It became apparent that her mother not only frequently consumed sweets herself, but also arranged the majority of their activities around obtaining them.
Long-term Conditioning Effect: As a result, thinking about sweets was a part of the client’s regular adult routine. Additionally, she admitted that she thought about sweets constantly, whether she was working, shopping, driving home, hanging out with friends, or any other activity. Naturally, this was having a negative impact on her health and general quality of life. Fortunately, after just one hypnotherapy session and a take-home hypnotherapy CD, the issue has been resolved.
Conclusion
Please feel free to share your experiences with us as there are many reasons for this emotional aversion to sweets, as was previously mentioned. We’d be happy to speak with you and help. This post’s entire goal is to raise readers’ awareness of the possibility that their attraction to sweets is the product of an unintentional psychological or habituated behavioural response.