How to say no to chocolate/sugar! SOS
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http://chocorite.com/low-carb-sugar-free-chocolate-bars.html these can't be good!
Do not fast or eliminate chocolate, that will never last very long. That would be like telling me to give up my cup of java in the mornings every day...
How about putting chocolate on your food diary first thing every day and then fill in the calories the rest of day around that sweet goodness?
Thats kind of what I have been doing. I filled up my two squares of chocolate first thing, and then decided what workout would help me to get rid of them, and then planned my meals. I feel like this might be a good system for now?0 -
Is weight loss your goal? I'm going to assume it is but here is my husband's trick - chewing gum.
He always carries a packet of chewing gum with him and as soon as he gets the urge he takes one out.
This has helped him a lot to stay away from eating something sweet just for the heck of it.
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Is weight loss your goal? I'm going to assume it is but here is my husband's trick - chewing gum.
He always carries a packet of chewing gum with him and as soon as he gets the urge he takes one out.
This has helped him a lot.
Weight loss is my goal, but the reason why it is, is because I keep this app for portion control. I used to try to gain weight so I would double my portions, and I never stopped when I reached the brink, because cutting down portions was really difficult. So I started using this for control and guidance (:
But the gum trick seems to be really relevant! I might try that, thank you!0 -
brianpperkins wrote: »summerkissed wrote: »brianpperkins wrote: »summerkissed wrote: »That's what I'm trying to get at! I have a really really bad sweet tooth wether it's the sugar in fruit or chocolate I need to eat sweet stuff! That's why I started by replacing my sugar in coffee with artificial sweeteners then slowly tried to reduce my chocolate intake but I still need sweet things! I was replying to the person who was indicating that it's all in our heads or we would be trying to eat masses of broccoli to get the sugar from it....well no I don't with the broccoli as it's not sweet but fruits I do eat in large amounts because it's wonderfully sweet!
If it were truly a sugar addiction then you would go to any available source. Not sweet enough illustrates that isn't the case.
But would you?? Would an alcoholic eat nannas fruit cake because the fruit was soaked in brandy? No they wouldn't! Why? because they wouldn't get the desired effect, just as someone needing sugar wouldn't get the desired effect from a bowl of broccoli! Someone addicted to the pokies wouldn't go put money on the horses if there were no pokies around why? Again the desirable effect isn't there....it's still gambling though!
Actually they would get the desired effect ... sugar into their system. Your complaint about broccoli, a sugar containing food, is completely flavor based. As noted by others, there is no scientific evidence supporting the addiction claims.alisakorneyeva wrote: »summerkissed wrote: »Even better banana dipped in chocolate lol (which is anoth thing I do in summertime as a sweet dessert without as much guilt as say another type of dessert
I think they just have a really bad attitude about helping others and trying to understand and support someone.
Some here don't think encouraging mistruths is helpful or supportive. Correcting misunderstandings is supportive and helpful.
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If you have a little bit of chocolate, dark is better! Try the fat free sugar free flavored liquid creamers. They are so good, so you don't need any sugar in your coffee!0
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alisakorneyeva wrote: »brianpperkins wrote: »summerkissed wrote: »brianpperkins wrote: »summerkissed wrote: »That's what I'm trying to get at! I have a really really bad sweet tooth wether it's the sugar in fruit or chocolate I need to eat sweet stuff! That's why I started by replacing my sugar in coffee with artificial sweeteners then slowly tried to reduce my chocolate intake but I still need sweet things! I was replying to the person who was indicating that it's all in our heads or we would be trying to eat masses of broccoli to get the sugar from it....well no I don't with the broccoli as it's not sweet but fruits I do eat in large amounts because it's wonderfully sweet!
If it were truly a sugar addiction then you would go to any available source. Not sweet enough illustrates that isn't the case.
But would you?? Would an alcoholic eat nannas fruit cake because the fruit was soaked in brandy? No they wouldn't! Why? because they wouldn't get the desired effect, just as someone needing sugar wouldn't get the desired effect from a bowl of broccoli! Someone addicted to the pokies wouldn't go put money on the horses if there were no pokies around why? Again the desirable effect isn't there....it's still gambling though!
Actually they would get the desired effect ... sugar into their system. Your complaint about broccoli, a sugar containing food, is completely flavor based. As noted by others, there is no scientific evidence supporting the addiction claims.alisakorneyeva wrote: »summerkissed wrote: »Even better banana dipped in chocolate lol (which is anoth thing I do in summertime as a sweet dessert without as much guilt as say another type of dessert
I think they just have a really bad attitude about helping others and trying to understand and support someone.
Some here don't think encouraging mistruths is helpful or supportive. Correcting misunderstandings is supportive and helpful.
I just feel like you could have a better attitude is all. Sugar isnt making me overweight or THE problem for my health, I just feel like I could try to step away and I wanted to see how others have, and what they do regarding recipies and etc, and share experiences. Your comments simply kind of felt really degrading and targeted.
My attitude is wonderful. The fact you seek insult in my replies and therefore find something to offend you is truly on you. What you feel is on you. Seeking experiences by people expressing the same fallacy based world view isn't support ... it is enabling and there is a significant difference.
"Sugar addiction" is not scientifically supported. The fact that certain centers light up in one's brain is not an indicator of addiction or the same evidence would support "addiction" to stubbing toes and petting puppies.0 -
Willpower?
I enjoy sugar of course, I just don't crave it.... give me a few pieces of dark chocolate a day and I'm happy.
If you cut back on the sugar in your coffee bit by bit you wont notice it.
The same goes for other sugary treats, enjoy them but in moderation.
Where theres a will theres a way.0 -
alisakorneyeva wrote: »I am a HUGE chocoholic, and I put about 3 teaspoons of sugar in my cup of tea, along with the inability to hold myself back from other sweets.
Is anyone else like this? How do you motivate yourself to not give in to these alluring monstrosities?!?
OP...I too am avoiding the "sugar addiction" part of this thread and try to offer some tips on your original question.
Most of us have foods or a category of food that we tend to overeat. Mine was anything crunchy and salty.
What I did when I first started trying to lose weight was...
Mentally made a list of the specific food that I overate on (ex...reduced fat Cheezits...chips...etc...etc)
First I tried moderation.
When I found I couldn't keep them in the house I only bought them on weekends.
If that didn't work I put them on a no-buy list.
Every few months I would try to add them back in.
After a couple of years at this some things have made it back in to my daily diet...other things have not. I still have a tendency to over-indulge in crunchy and salty food items. I can now bring chips in to the house and have no problems...Cheezits...only on occasion. I still overeat on them.
My advice...try a few different ways to approach this and see what works best for you.0 -
Also ignoring the addiction thing.
What worked for me, and what I encourage others to do, was to think about when I tended to overeat and why. I realized that I ate well at meals (I don't really get how people eat lots of sugar in a meal, as it's not consistent with how I cook), but that I would mindlessly eat stupid stuff at other times, sometimes because it looked delicious (as when someone brings a really good cinnamon coffee cake to work), at other times just because it was there and I wanted a break or was having a hard day or everyone else was eating it. (Pretty much all my dumb eating happened at work, and especially if I worked really late and hadn't eaten since lunch.)
So given my own habits and triggers, what helped me was simply deciding that I would not snack during the day with rare exceptions when I really thought it through, logged it, and decided how to make room for it in the day (i.e., if that coffee cake was worth it I would decide not to have ice cream at night and have a smaller portion of potatoes and larger portion of vegetables with dinner).
I kept in a reasonable, moderate amount of sweet things (not at first, since I was breaking the habit and on low calories, but soon), but they are planned and generally immediately after dinner (or on occasion, lunch, as there is a place that has really good chocolates that I go to for lunch sometimes) and fit in my calories. Including them doesn't make my sugar particularly high, and makes it easy to say no to other things and to moderate, as I know I can always have something tomorrow if it doesn't fit in today. For me it's kind of like calories -- I figured out what I think a reasonable amount of sweet stuff (or other extra food, like cheese, which I sometimes have instead, or fries or whatever) is to have in a day or week and don't go above it. It's not hard to say "later" if you are not thinking in all or nothing terms, for me.
Also, this might not work for everyone, but I cultivated my innate snobbery about what sweets are worth eating. Life's too short for mediocre baked goods or mediocre chocolate, so I'd rather wait and spend the calories on something really good, often in a smaller quantity. That helped with the foods that seemed to be always around at work or in meetings or the like.0 -
Slowly start by cutting down the sugar you put in your coffee. I used to get my coffee light and sweet. When I started cutting down on my sugar I knocked it down to 2 sugars which in a large coffee was really nothing so then I started nixing the sugar and just getting milk and there was no difference in drinking it that way vs. with 2 sugars. For my tea that I drink I just stopped putting sugar in it. I used to have a wicked sweet tooth but I've pretty much knocked the cravings away. On the off chance that I do want something sweet I'll chew gum, suck on a hard candy or eat some frozen grapes.0
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You have to try Lindt Sea Salt.
One square. Allow to melt in mouth. About 50 calories.0 -
Sugar addiction is a very real thing and difficult to deal with because just about EVERYTHING has added sugar or natural sugar in it so unlike other addictions, you simply can't go 'cold turkey'. Sugar has been shown to affect the brain's dopamine receptors creating a similar effect as certain habit forming drugs. I have found that by choosing to eat a low carbohydrate diet a lot of my cravings have gone way down. Carbs turn into sugar as soon as they are digested- and make you crave more carbs and more sugar. I also love Chocolate and get my fill from 85% dark chocolate or making my own chocolate with coconut oil, cocoa powder and sweetened with liquid stevia. Turning natural nut butters into chocolate nut butters also helps and gives you a good protein kick which helps with satiety. I just add cocoa and liquid stevia to taste.0
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alisakorneyeva wrote: »I am a HUGE chocoholic, and I put about 3 teaspoons of sugar in my cup of tea, along with the inability to hold myself back from other sweets.
Is anyone else like this? How do you motivate yourself to not give in to these alluring monstrosities?!?
I have chocolate every day, I don't need to avoid them. You don't have an inability to hold yourself back from eating all of the sugary things. And they are not monstrosities you need to fear. Just take some small steps, reduce those three teaspoons of sugar to one teaspoon. Buy those small packets of chocolate and have one everyday, if the supermarkets where you are are like mine you'll be able to buy small 40g bars of dark chocolate or milk chocolate if you prefer. Depriving yourself of what you want will make you want it even more, moderating how much you have of it makes it more likely you'll stay in control. Sure someone else has mentioned this, but I ain't got no time to read every dang reply to check.0 -
alisakorneyeva wrote: »I am a HUGE chocoholic, and I put about 3 teaspoons of sugar in my cup of tea, along with the inability to hold myself back from other sweets.
Is anyone else like this? How do you motivate yourself to not give in to these alluring monstrosities?!?
OP...I too am avoiding the "sugar addiction" part of this thread and try to offer some tips on your original question.
Most of us have foods or a category of food that we tend to overeat. Mine was anything crunchy and salty.
What I did when I first started trying to lose weight was...
Mentally made a list of the specific food that I overate on (ex...reduced fat Cheezits...chips...etc...etc)
First I tried moderation.
When I found I couldn't keep them in the house I only bought them on weekends.
If that didn't work I put them on a no-buy list.
Every few months I would try to add them back in.
After a couple of years at this some things have made it back in to my daily diet...other things have not. I still have a tendency to over-indulge in crunchy and salty food items. I can now bring chips in to the house and have no problems...Cheezits...only on occasion. I still overeat on them.
My advice...try a few different ways to approach this and see what works best for you.
Thank you for your responce!
I have been still keeping small amounts of chocolate in my diet, and it has been working out! Still achieving my goals, and enjoying the sweets little by little with the excitement of still having some left over the next day. Its also helpful to my budget.
Your support means quite a lot to me♡0 -
Also if possible, I would like the arguing to stop? (Dont know if thats too much to ask) Thank you to those that are avoiding the mini conflict, but as most said, its not even what this thread is about. Its not about science or defining twrms, its about seeing what others are doing with their cravings for sweets.
We are here to support each other, not place ourselves on intellectual tiers etc. So just be nice and civil!!
Good vibes only♡0 -
Just to add my 2c
You're doing the right thing cutting back slowly, I was a junk food/sweets addict and I resolved it by thinking long term.
Everyone wants results right now, but diet/exercise/weight loss/health is a commitment, instead of worrying about instant results, we should be asking ourselves "what will happen in 6 months if I make small consistent changes"0 -
Try and wean yourself off of the sugar, used to put sugar in my eat and I slowly cut back. As for the chocolate, try something a darker start off with a low percentage like 60% and work your way up. Bonne chance!0
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Hi folks,
I've split this topic. If you wish to debate what the word addiction means, please don't post in this thread. The OP has asked for help with her sugar intake. If you wish to debate the word addiction, or sugar addiction, please post elsewhere.
Take care,
Nova
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