Need to crack this sugar addiction.....if I could just do that I know I would succeed !

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  • cat77043
    cat77043 Posts: 2 Member
    I did forget to say that I WILL eat your birthday cake if it is actually your birthday, or anniversary or whatever. But that comes up VERY seldom.
  • theoriginalkp
    theoriginalkp Posts: 7 Member
    I understand. Who doesn't love something that tastes yummy! I hope you won't be too hard on yourself and be careful about vilifying any food. ;)

    IDK the general consensus on this kind of sweetener (it seems to affect me in a strange way), but have you tried something like this? They have some good recipes on their site. (this isn't a plug for their products).

    https://store.trimhealthymama.com/product/gentle-sweet-xylitol-erythritol-stevia-ground-blend-16oz-bag/

    HTH!
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    AnvilHead wrote: »
    bleej wrote: »
    Sugar IS addictive and an addiction. Cocaine is a harmless plant processed into a white addictive powder. Sugar? A harmless plant processed into a white addictive powder. Just because you don't act high or do goofy things, does not mean you don't have an addiction...

    The first time I see somebody on their knees in a dark alley for a sugar hit, maybe I'll believe in "sugar addiction".

    or some disheveled man creeping up to me asking me "hey you got a ho ho on ya"
    This such a a funny comparison because sugar is practically free, legal for everybody to buy and use without a licence, and available everywhere.
  • GrammiJano
    GrammiJano Posts: 28 Member
    for those who say its a craving,do you crave fruits,diary,etc? because all those things have sugar in them. wouldnt those things make you crave more and more of those things because of sugar? and table sugar,HFCS and so on all come from natural sources(mostly veggies and some fruits).
    White sugar is destilled from plants. So the sugar is the same. But so called junk food is very easy to eat (practically predigested, simple, strong flavors, it offers no resistance) and has little nutritional value besides the sugar/fat. So there is no "stop" to junk food. Fruit has flavors you have to learn to like, it isn't that intensely sweet, and you get enough. Fruit isn't vilified AND heavily marketed, either.

  • GrammiJano
    GrammiJano Posts: 28 Member
    GrammiJano wrote: »
    So I need to crack my sugar addiction. I just end up craving it on a night. I kid myself I buy "Healthy" cereal bars.,but I eat one and the taste of sugar just spiralls me into eating more sugary stuff. I chucked my whole cereal bar stash in the bin today. They liken sugar addiction to stopping smoking and I have seen how hard that can be for ppl. I am gonna try and go cold turkey with it and drink more water. I know if I can break my sugar addiction I will succeed in my weight loss journey. :)<3

  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    AnvilHead wrote: »
    bleej wrote: »
    Sugar IS addictive and an addiction. Cocaine is a harmless plant processed into a white addictive powder. Sugar? A harmless plant processed into a white addictive powder. Just because you don't act high or do goofy things, does not mean you don't have an addiction...

    The first time I see somebody on their knees in a dark alley for a sugar hit, maybe I'll believe in "sugar addiction".

    or some disheveled man creeping up to me asking me "hey you got a ho ho on ya"
    This such a a funny comparison because sugar is practically free, legal for everybody to buy and use without a licence, and available everywhere.

    Except people don't shovel pure sugar into their mouths, they buy sweets which aren't practically free by a long shot.
    Speaking of which, how many people DO shovel pure sugar into their mouths to "get a fix" when they can't get the sweets they would want? Cause that's a thing that happen with strong addictions, people will even go as far as take stuff that they know is acutely dangerous to their health just to scratch that itch.
    Well I did as a child, but I don't think it's important. I also overate sweets constantly even though my teeth hurt, and I wasn't oblivious to the impact it had. I still don't call it addiction. I just felt left without any viable alternatives.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Fruit has flavors you have to learn to like

    I don't think this is true. The main flavor fruits have is sweet (many of them are pretty intensely sweet too). I think children (who are born mainly wanting sweet and having to learn to like other flavors, if memory serves) generally enjoy fruit. I can't remember back to my own baby or toddlerhood, but I know my sister did, and most small children I know now love fruit, and by the time my memory kicks in I recall loving it. Some kids have weird texture issues with some fruit, but they still tend to enjoy juice (which is the flavor alone).

    I think if it had been more available in my house growing up (climate issues, and fresh produce being less available in general than now) I would have snacked on it more.

    I even now tend to crave fruit when I want juicy and sweet.

    I would agree that dessert-type foods can be more difficult not to overeat (or stop eating), but for me that's not because they are sweeter -- as an adult I tend to find less sweet desserts more appealing (desserts that are probably less sweet than a piece of fruit -- certainly less so than the pineapple I ate with my dinner last night). For me the reason it is harder to stop eating is that it is LESS purely sugar than the fruit and offers more complexity of flavor plus the mouth-feel and satisfaction of fat. I do think that having a lot of different desires hit (the complexity) can make the satiety point harder to hit. (That's actually one reason I think it's harder to avoid overeating these days without effort -- food is so varied, as well as available. Kids tend to find a lot of that unappealing at first, but generally people grow out of that.)

    Anyway, for the purposes of this thread, I think OP has said her concern is not fruit and people certainly have difficulty moderating dessert-type sweets and not fruit (even if fruit is eaten for dessert). Plus, you can often eat a huge volume of fruit for the same calories, and it provides nutrients, as you also note. Makes sense to me to distinguish the two, and NOT to distinguish sweets from other easily overeaten foods you tend to have trouble moderating, whatever they may be. (My issues were always savory foods more than sweets, but some sweets too, and we all have different tastes, which I think is what actually determines the specific foods one goes for.)

    Also would agree that once you get into the cycle of seeing something as forbidden fruit it's something more going on that can make moderation extra hard and that actual fruit (ironically) is free of that whole thing. Well, I guess unless you believe all the claptrap about how bananas or watermelon or whatever cause obesity and are the one terrible food you should avoid or whatever that ad is. ;-)