and healthy. The scenario often looks like
this:
It’s 3:00 on a Thursday afternoon. You’re
at work, and you’re hungry, cranky, and tired.
You’d normally reach for a Snickers bar, a
muffin, or some Oreos right about now, but
you’re trying to eat healthier and you know
those are poor choices. So instead, you eat a
dried fruit and nut bar.
There is just one problem with this
situation.
Your brain doesn’t know the difference.As you learned in Chapter 4, your brain
doesn’t immediately differentiate between
“healthy” sugar like dried fruit and “bad”
sugar like a Snickers bar. The only thing your
brain knows is, “I craved sugar and I got
sugar.” That’s right, the message you just sent
to your brain is, “I craved, I satisfied that
craving, and I feel better now.”