sugar addict

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  • jesusismyhero
    jesusismyhero Posts: 5
    :sad: yes I feel your pain too! I smoked cigs for many many years and after I gave it up due to medical issues... pound by pound it came every month. I often wonder how I could give up smoking and not eating. It pains me to say that I would rather smoke than be this much overweight. I have no plans of going back to smoking. Also, after smoking all those years I food didn't taste as good as it does now. Even my husband agrees that food taste alot better after he quit smoking. It's no wonder people gain weight after kicking the habit. :noway: :noway:
  • char71165
    char71165 Posts: 65 Member
    I am on day three of not eating sugar. I had decided to not eat ice cream during Lent. I LOVE ice cream. It is my favorite dessert. I could eat it three times a day! So it was a big decision to let it go for Lent. So I started and I was doing great without it. Or so I thought until I realized I was binge eating on other sweets. So I was really upset. So I decided that it was time to give up the sugar. I am addicted to it and so it has to go. So I am doing it one day at a time. I hope that in the future I will be able to have a sweet on a special occasion and not be thrown into a sugar binge. But for now I am not going to focus on that or worry about it. I am focusing on today and learning what eating can be like without sugar. God help me! Thank you MFP friends for supporting and encouraging me on this journey.
  • SanteMulberry
    SanteMulberry Posts: 3,202 Member
    I am on day three of not eating sugar. I had decided to not eat ice cream during Lent. I LOVE ice cream. It is my favorite dessert. I could eat it three times a day! So it was a big decision to let it go for Lent. So I started and I was doing great without it. Or so I thought until I realized I was binge eating on other sweets. So I was really upset. So I decided that it was time to give up the sugar. I am addicted to it and so it has to go. So I am doing it one day at a time. I hope that in the future I will be able to have a sweet on a special occasion and not be thrown into a sugar binge. But for now I am not going to focus on that or worry about it. I am focusing on today and learning what eating can be like without sugar. God help me! Thank you MFP friends for supporting and encouraging me on this journey.

    You can do it! I did it about three years ago and it was one of the best decisions I ever made. I have lost 51 pounds since then. My blood pressure has returned to normal without medication (and I was previously on two of them). My arthritis is greatly improved. The benefits keep rolling in! To your better health...:drinker:
  • bobbeagley59
    bobbeagley59 Posts: 2
    I eat cookies and candy and Ice cream all the time I mean if it is in the house I eat it and I like it a lot. I know that I shouldn't eat the stuff but I just keep eating and eating the stuff cause it tastes so good and everyone around me eats tons of it so I eat tons of it too. so I am stuck with no end in sight and no motivation to stop either. even though I weigh more now that I ever have in my life and my back is hurting bad as well. so I hope we all can help each other?
  • bobbeagley59
    bobbeagley59 Posts: 2
    Thanks for the positive help I am going to make a good effort. Thanks. Keep up the good work!!!!!
  • SanteMulberry
    SanteMulberry Posts: 3,202 Member
    I eat cookies and candy and Ice cream all the time I mean if it is in the house I eat it and I like it a lot. I know that I shouldn't eat the stuff but I just keep eating and eating the stuff cause it tastes so good and everyone around me eats tons of it so I eat tons of it too. so I am stuck with no end in sight and no motivation to stop either. even though I weigh more now that I ever have in my life and my back is hurting bad as well. so I hope we all can help each other?

    You can do it! Believe me, if I can do it, so can you. Once you get off the stuff you will find that you have lost your taste for it. But you must get completely off of it to experience the freedom of not having to eat it just because it is there. It only took me about two weeks. Now, if I go to a birthday party or something and get served a piece of cake, I'll take a bite or two and leave the rest because it just doesn't taste good to me anymore. Waaaaay too sweet, sickeningly so.:tongue:
  • lizbennet
    lizbennet Posts: 8 Member
    you can totally do it!!! go you!!!! great job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • nomicat77
    nomicat77 Posts: 132 Member
    sounds like you are insulin resistant. you should check your blood sugar levels when you feel like this. most doctors will hand you a tester for free.
  • SanteMulberry
    SanteMulberry Posts: 3,202 Member
    sounds like you are insulin resistant. you should check your blood sugar levels when you feel like this. most doctors will hand you a tester for free.

    Not sure if you are talking to me, nomicat, but if you are, I don't think I am IR. I had my FBS and A1C (and triglycerides) done just last fall and they were excellent. But thanks for the warning. :smile:
  • sandynas
    sandynas Posts: 89 Member
    I have a MAJOR sweet tooth. You're doing great! I still cheat here and there but eat a lot of fruit!

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