048. How to Break Sugar Addiction: Why Trauma Therapy Fails Without Detox First | with Bitten Jonsson, pt 2

Well, if they do that all by themselves, without support or, you know, knowledge, I think doing it in that way is doomed to fail after maybe a couple of weeks, three weeks, because you don't know all the things that's going to happen in your body, in your brain, in your hormonal system, in your microbiome, in your stomach. So you're going to feel pretty bad so you can do it for a while. I used to say that that method, it's like holding a pilates bowl under the water. Your arm's going to get very tired, it's going to bounce back up in your face. But you know, to do that with professional help, somebody that knows all the symptoms, knows everything that's going to happen in your body that can give you knowledge. Because knowledge is power to understand. My brain, my special addicted brain, my body, that is power and that's going to give you the energy you need to do the changes. Even if there are days when you feel miserable, absolutely miserable, you have headache, you feel, you want to throw up, you have pain in your body, you think that this is the dumbest idea. All you want to do is run to the store and buy the whole freezer of ice cream or chocolate, or go to the bakery and eat all the bread in the world, you know, so that's going to happen and that's going to be so painful that you might not handle that pressure unless you have support. So we need both professional knowledge and help to, you know, stake out the road. This is what's going to happen. And then we need support, other people, like minded people that can say, just one more day, do it one more day. Hang in there until you go to bed tonight. And that's the best trick in the world, to only do it one day at a time. We work a lot with that.

So that's, you know, I, I suggest that you join a group. Don't try to do it yourself. It's like lifting yourself in the hair, you know, you're probably gonna fail.

No, that's a myth. It's a myth. Addiction is not caused by something really. Nope, nope. That's a very dangerous theory too, because then you're going to start dealing with the trauma and do therapy about the trauma. And you don't understand that, you know, the drug causes your misery. So you have to learn how to put the horse in front of the wagon. But let me tell you this. Sugar addiction starts in people that have a genetically addictive prone brain. You know, when they get in touch with the substance. It's the same with alcohol. And, you know, that's what causes addiction. It's about the brain, the sensitive brain reacting on the psychoactive substance or processes. Because we talk about process addiction today too. That's important. Dieting can be a process addiction. Starving can be a process addiction. Binging, purging, volume, eating can be process addictions. But they're all developed from the sugar addiction as a way to try to control this insanity with the craving and on and off and all that kind of craziness that goes on when we diet all the time. So anything that happens, trauma, because most people have trauma. Right. But it didn't cause addiction. That's very important because you can't treat it. If you think that you have to start before you have to Start. That's why I developed this instrument, diagnostic tool, sugar. Because there we can see when it started and you can clearly see that it started before the depression, before the trauma, before the divorce, before this and that. It's very clear in the diagnostic assessment we do that the sugar addiction came first and then came the consequences. So people think that they eat because they are depressed, but they are depressed because of the psychoactive substance screwing up their brain. But since everybody has traumas, griefs, sorrows, things that happen to us, if you are addicted at a young age and those things happen to you, they will be exaggerated due to your brain not functioning properly because you have a psychoactive substance in there on a daily basis. So it get warped. So when you go into treatment and you detox and start healing your brain, which by the way takes about 12 to 18 months, maybe longer before your brain is healed and the neurotransmitters is back in order and all that, and the receptors are okay and so forth, then you know, when you're stable, when you gain back your mental horsepower and you feel you have energy and you feel good about yourself, that's when you can do therapy on whatever is left or what you thought was your dilemmas. Are you with me?

Yeah. So that's, that's why it's so important to work in the right order. I think I've seen so many clients through the years that are very broken because, you know, they went to one therapist after the other trying to heal a trauma or trying to heal a grief or something that happened to them. And nobody taught them about the food as a medicine and fuel to restore energy. So they did therapy and all that led to was worse eating because you have to. The pain that was starting, you didn't have, you know, the stability to do therapy. And you do therapy and you keep eating the drug. Can you see how that happens? One plus one is going to be three or five. So once people come to us, we stop all that. And we said, okay, first things first. Heal your brain, restore your energy. Learn how to breathe properly, because addicts over breathe. Learn how to have good sleep, learn how to have balanced and good physical activity. We give supplements, we work with amino acids and minerals and fish oil and a little bit of that. Nothing really fancy, but, you know, then they have to learn a routine. The most important thing is to withstand craving, prevent relapse, and that you do on a daily basis. So once you get stable in living a life where, I mean, all occasions that happen in your life, you go to your first wedding and you don't eat the cake, people don't look at you, but you have to stand straight for yourself. No, I don't eat cake. You know, Christmas, Easter. Oh, I could go on and on, but you understand what I mean. You have to learn to be stable in your, you know, food plan, in your new fuel mix and view food as fuel and medicine for your brain and your body and not a joy or something to, you know, change your consciousness with or whatever. So you have to learn that first before I recommend that you start going into therapy. There are cases where there is a severe acute trauma that needs to be dealt with. Or many of my clients are also addicted to alcohol or pills. You have to take that first. You can't work with alcoholic or cannabis addict or drug addict. You can't work with the food unless you take those first. Because rule number one, the thing that is most dangerous, you take first. And it is always safety first for the client and then you go for the food. Does it make sense?

In my world. In my world.

I've never seen that. Well, they can, you know, they can binge eat any food, but the binge eating purging is due to the sugar addiction in the bottom. And you need knowledge to understand and see that clearly and help the client see that.

Well, no, everybody don't have to do it, I promise you. No, I think that anyone listening, thinking, oh, I recognize a lot what she's saying, you know, about these things. And I know that I'm a chronic dieter and I haven't succeeded long term yet. My energy is, you know, up and down and I don't feel good. And I know deep inside every addict know what our big love is. You know, either is for some people, it's pasta, bread, that type of thing. For some it is chocolate ice cream. It was for me. I'm never a bread lover. And some have both, you know, but it is the sugar people want. So if you know that you can't quit that and stay off it, because an addict can quit, but not steak with so if you recognize that you might be. And you could also go to my website and do the UNCOPE screening questionnaire. Six simple questions. And if you answer yes to two or more, and the more you have, of course, the more, you know, that's. That's a sign that something is really wrong. And then you could contact one of my professionals or me, because, you know, I offer a. For a. What do you call it? Discount. What's the word I was looking for? I'm tired and I'm in Sweden this evening. But anyway, so if you think that that would benefit you, because the people that do the sugar, they are incredibly relieved. They understand they have a brain illness. I'm not a bad person. Uh, I. It's not about my character or that I am a failure. Uh, you know, they have lots of shame and stigma around this, but then they understand I have an illness. You know, we clearly see that. And so most people cry because they're relieved because finally somebody's listening to me, taking me serious. And a lot of people say, nobody ever asked me those questions because it's very specific questions in order to diagnose a sugar addiction. And then they see their whole life on the curve with the weight and everything, and they go, oh, my God, that's me. And I like to quote Winston Churchill, he said, the further back you look, the further forward you can go. So that's how we use the tool. And also, the tool will not only give you the diagnosis, but it was also, for us as professionals, map out all your consequences so we could do the best individual treatment plan, you know, from that information. Wow.

bittens addiction.com. yeah.

It's a biochemical problem. It's not your fault. And remember, if you have a sensitive, addicted brain, that's a superpower, but you need a special driver license if you want to be energetic and healthy. That's the way I view it. I know that.

Okay, thank you very much. I say goodbye and good night.

Yeah, thank you. Bye. Bye.