!Sugarholics Anonymous!

lablamires

Confession;

I have a serious sweet tooth.
It's bad.

Most of the time I don't even realize I'm eating something sweet until it's in my mouth. I was just snacking, you know? and suddenly, BAM! There's some chocolate, or a cookie, or cake, or whatever.

It gets worse.

I can eat that sweet thing, and satisfy my craving, but almost as soon as I'm done I'm craving something else sweet and suddenly don't feel satisfied anymore.

I REALLY want to get off sugar. I feel like it's controlling my life, and I need the myfitnesspal community's help and advice.
Anything you can say that will help in possible ways to eventually get me off sugar would be a massive help.
I also wouldn't mind discussing our problems/struggles with sugar together and having this thread become a big support thread/group/team. Thanks!

tennisdude2004

Confession;

I have a serious sweet tooth.
It's bad.

Most of the time I don't even realize I'm eating something sweet until it's in my mouth. I was just snacking, you know? and suddenly, BAM! There's some chocolate, or a cookie, or cake, or whatever.

It gets worse.

I can eat that sweet thing, and satisfy my craving, but almost as soon as I'm done I'm craving something else sweet and suddenly don't feel satisfied anymore.

I REALLY want to get off sugar. I feel like it's controlling my life, and I need the myfitnesspal community's help and advice.
Anything you can say that will help in possible ways to eventually get me off sugar would be a massive help.
I also wouldn't mind discussing our problems/struggles with sugar together and having this thread become a big support thread/group/team. Thanks!

Not going to happen I'm afraid - you've used too many anti sugar words in your post. lol

the following advice will be.

blah, blah, blah - moderation

blah, blah, blah - Sugars not evil

blah, blah, blah - get OFF sugar, so you're giving up fruit and veg as well then.

blah, blah, blah - your brain only runs off sugar and you need to eat sugar to fuel your body.

blah, blah, blah - oxygen has sugar in it - are you going stop breathing.

blah, blah, blah - you shouldn't give up sugar because...............insert derp!!

Cutting back on sugar for some people is a good thing.

Good luck (with your cutting back sugar and with this thread).

chani8

What he said ^-^ !

I've been off sugar for over a year and a few weeks ago I fell off the wagon to have some of my DD's homemade chocolate chip cookies that she worked so hard to make. I fell hard. For two days I binged on those cookies until they were finally eaten up. Then two days later I just had to make a chocolate zucchini cake for my kids with the full amount of sugar, and then baked another cake with no sugar for DH and I. I tasted their cake and it.was.over. I binged. I stuffed half the cake in the freezer to stop myself from eating it all. A week later I got it out along with the no-sugar cake, and I binged again on the sugary cake.

Sugar is addictive to some people. I'm one of them. I am so much happier when I just keep it away from me like it's alcohol to an alcoholic. I don't like being out of control about food. It's upsetting.

This feeling of being addicted to sugar has been explored in a study on sugar and it's affects on the brains of rats.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235907/

So cutting out sugar may be a healthy choice if you are find it hard to not binge on sugar.

Charlottesometimes23

There's a group called Say No to Sugar which might be a good place to get some support.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/4348-say-no-to-sugar

freemystery

You'll hate me for this but cold turkey. Once (a long while ago) I pledged that I would not eat chocolate for a year. So every time it was offered I couldn't try and taper off, it was a hard NO. I do not eat chocolate any more. (note, not that I can't. I don't)

I have a serious sweet tooth also and I find the hardest time isn't when you're longing for that little squre of chocolate/ gummi bear/ cookie. It's when you have the first bite. And your brain goes MOAR! As hard as it is, as long as I don't take the first bite I'm ok.

Also only having minimal sweet stuff around. So little treat size bags of chocolate- I give the multipack to my coworker and I ask for one a day. My coworker knows not to hand out any more but I guess the fact I have to ask and be visibly breaking my own rules, it stops me from actually asking for more!

lablamires

Confession;

I have a serious sweet tooth.
It's bad.

Most of the time I don't even realize I'm eating something sweet until it's in my mouth. I was just snacking, you know? and suddenly, BAM! There's some chocolate, or a cookie, or cake, or whatever.

It gets worse.

I can eat that sweet thing, and satisfy my craving, but almost as soon as I'm done I'm craving something else sweet and suddenly don't feel satisfied anymore.

I REALLY want to get off sugar. I feel like it's controlling my life, and I need the myfitnesspal community's help and advice.
Anything you can say that will help in possible ways to eventually get me off sugar would be a massive help.
I also wouldn't mind discussing our problems/struggles with sugar together and having this thread become a big support thread/group/team. Thanks!

Not going to happen I'm afraid - you've used too many anti sugar words in your post. lol

the following advice will be.

blah, blah, blah - moderation

blah, blah, blah - Sugars not evil

blah, blah, blah - get OFF sugar, so you're giving up fruit and veg as well then.

blah, blah, blah - your brain only runs off sugar and you need to eat sugar to fuel your body.

blah, blah, blah - oxygen has sugar in it - are you going stop breathing.

blah, blah, blah - you shouldn't give up sugar because...............insert derp!!

Cutting back on sugar for some people is a good thing.

Good luck (with your cutting back sugar and with this thread).

Haha, thanks. And just to specify, I'm all for natural sugars... I just want to cut out the bad ones.

lablamires

What he said ^-^ !

I've been off sugar for over a year and a few weeks ago I fell off the wagon to have some of my DD's homemade chocolate chip cookies that she worked so hard to make. I fell hard. For two days I binged on those cookies until they were finally eaten up. Then two days later I just had to make a chocolate zucchini cake for my kids with the full amount of sugar, and then baked another cake with no sugar for DH and I. I tasted their cake and it.was.over. I binged. I stuffed half the cake in the freezer to stop myself from eating it all. A week later I got it out along with the no-sugar cake, and I binged again on the sugary cake.

Sugar is addictive to some people. I'm one of them. I am so much happier when I just keep it away from me like it's alcohol to an alcoholic. I don't like being out of control about food. It's upsetting.

This feeling of being addicted to sugar has been explored in a study on sugar and it's affects on the brains of rats.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235907/

So cutting out sugar may be a healthy choice if you are find it hard to not binge on sugar.

Sounds like me. I have a terrible problem with bingeing on sugar whenever I stop and then start back up again.
Thanks!

lablamires

There's a group called Say No to Sugar which might be a good place to get some support.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/4348-say-no-to-sugar

Thanks! I'll check it out.

lablamires

You'll hate me for this but cold turkey. Once (a long while ago) I pledged that I would not eat chocolate for a year. So every time it was offered I couldn't try and taper off, it was a hard NO. I do not eat chocolate any more. (note, not that I can't. I don't)

I have a serious sweet tooth also and I find the hardest time isn't when you're longing for that little squre of chocolate/ gummi bear/ cookie. It's when you have the first bite. And your brain goes MOAR! As hard as it is, as long as I don't take the first bite I'm ok.

Also only having minimal sweet stuff around. So little treat size bags of chocolate- I give the multipack to my coworker and I ask for one a day. My coworker knows not to hand out any more but I guess the fact I have to ask and be visibly breaking my own rules, it stops me from actually asking for more!

Not getting more is really the hardest thing. Ugh. Thanks for sharing your experience