6 days no cookies, candy or sweets.

Good for you! I'm addicted to sweets, too! Brownies, cookies, cake, chocolate -- you name it, I'll eat it!
Going cold turkey is BRAVE -- let us know how you make out!

Feel free to send your sweets my way. Hells, I'll even pay the postage. :drinker:

I am starting to realize I have a sugar problem. I have came a long way to make the right choices with food and fit in some exercise or some type of activity in my days.

Why can't I walk away from the cookies, chocolate and other sweets? Most days I make pretty decent food choices with a few mistakes, but as soon as there are chocolate chip cookies, or mint chocolate chip ice cream or brownies in the house I have no self control, my will power goes right out the window. Then I sit here wondering why the scale isn't going down or like this past week I actually GAINED 2 pounds. I need to stop.

I started 6 days ago and my goal is to give up any sugar products for 2 weeks. I keep hearing after 2 weeks it should be out of your system. I do have my coffee in the morning I will now just use a few Spendas instead. But good-bye to candy bars, cookies, brownies and ice cream. It is making me feel lousy.

I honestly don't think anyone died from not eating a brownie or having ice cream in their life.

My challenge for myself, knock out the sweets.

Getting out of your system doesn't mean it's gonna be out of your life. Every corner you turn you'll obsess or envy the person eating a cookie, candy bar, ice cream etc. And usually strictly abstaining from foods you actually enjoy end up being the demise for regain once someone reaches goal. Doing this for years, I had to change my philosophy so clients wouldn't gain weight back.
So LEARN how to just have them once in awhile and not everyday or in large portions. There inherently isn't any bad foods out there, just over consumption of them.

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good job but remember don't cheat yourself treat yourself

The will power comes overtime...if you stick to the plan of avoidance. I agree that having something sweet every now and then is preferable to grandiose consumption. Find your weakest link and make that your exception; say no to everything else.

As someone who has been there, I can tell you it truly does get easier. I have always had a huge sweet tooth, but when I decided it was time to take control and get healthy, I dramatically reduced the amount of sugary stuff in my life. While it was really hard at first, now it does not bother me. In fact, on the occasions that I decided I am going to eat a cookie, piece of cake, etc., it is too sweet and I very rarely take more than a bite. For me, it has been well worth it. I am not saying that those things cannot be a part of someones diet, in moderation. But moderation does not work well for me. Staying away from that stuff completely has worked out well for me.

Every time I 'dieted', I would find myself making exceptions for sweets because 'they were low-calorie, so that makes it okay to eat more than one, right?' This time, I made a change in my thinking. And I got rid of the sugary snacks until I can better handle myself. When I can go out and have ONE thing of something, and my self-control is regained, then I can allow myself to have sugar.

I went cold-turkey. And I'll tell you what? I like it. Fruit tastes sweeter. I can drink coconut water as a treat now because it tastes sweet and not like sour water. It might bite to give up white refined sugar, but your body will thank you for it. If you need something sweet, measure out honey. I don't do it often, but a little bit of honey goes a long way! And eventually, when I want to start incorporating sugar back into my life, I'm considering coconut sugar. Since it's waaay more expensive than buying white sugar, I'll think twice about how often and how much I use it!

Maybe set a small reward for yourself for getting to two weeks 'sober' of sugar. For every two weeks that I stay on track, I go up to Petland and hold a puppy.

I also agree with this. Once you eliminate the processed, sugary stuff, you do appreciate the natural sweet stuff a lot more!! My desserts at home when I want something are usually a banana, or some grapes, and I am perfectly happy after.

Heres the secret - its a battle in your mind - conquer that and you have won the game, easy,,, I gave up the sweets too, because sweets are something that i tend to be addicted to. It took about 3 weeks of choosing healthy food and now i dont have those cravings.

the funny thing is when i see a basket of blackberries at the store, I really feel i need to have em like the same feeling i had when i saw a brownie. Which is great because blackberries are fabulous food.

I dont know what happened, but i stayed away from them, and the cravings for them went away. I think I had to form a neutral feeling about sweets. When I didn't allow myself to salivate and stir up all those emotions and had more of an attitude change toward sweets, that seemed to help.

Now when i see the fruit section of the store, my eyes light up and I really crave them. so maybe the natural sugar in the fruit is satisfying my sweet tooth. Maybe you can do the same.

so in other words, if you are around that stuff, try to not look at them, and then try to not start reacting toward them.. its almost like a drunk guy hitting on you wanting a date, you would treat those sweets kinda like that. Like a non-entity. its all in your mind.

I dont take a taste because that would be a tease. Others can, but I dont. its easier for me if i dont have a little taste to torture myself, not right away,, maybe later when i get ahold of my sweet tooth,, but not now.