Carb Addict!!!!

Try relating the need to eat cakes and sweets with something negative, it might help with your wanting of it to relate to it negatively.

Also add other foods to your diet that are low carb, off-hand I cannot think of too many that would be appetite pleasing and would immediately take your attention away from the sweets. Google no-carb and low-carb foods and see what you can come up with that will work for you

Detox. Srsly. Give yourself a couple of weeks off of the sugar. Instead, eat whole grains and fruit. It'll get easier.

Eat more protein! You won't be as hungry. When I first started, I had to boil eggs and eat just the whites until the hunger pangs disappeared. There are only 17 cals in one large egg white, they fill you up and stay with you until the next meal or even later.
Don't restrict your carbs too much or like anything else, you'll crave them.
Figure out WHY you're wanting to eat them. Besides wanting them because they taste good, are you craving comfort?
Drink something, brush your teeth, go for a walk, work on a puzzle, call someone.. do anything that distracts you.

It sounds more like a sugar addiction to me. A carb addition is more bread and pasta... that is a pain I know.

sounds like you are more of a "sweets" addict than a carb addict.

To those of us with metabolic syndrome (weight retention around the middle, water retention, gaining or only maintaining when we are dieting and exercising, and all that goes with that) carbs are poison. They will kill you. Think of it as slow suicide. First comes the weight, then the high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, etc. Your body is trying to kill you and you are helping it along.

I have the same problem and have been battling it for the past 7 years! After having my last child at the age of 40, I developed a heart problem that caused me not to be able to do the usual things after childbirth to lose the baby weight. Still most of it went away over time, but as I neared menopause, during peri-menopause I began packing on weight like nobody's business. When I dieted and exercised though, it dropped off, so no problem, right? Wrong. During that time my metabolism slowed. I also quit smoking which slowed it even further.

Dropping my calories down to 1200 per day, exercising vigorously 4-6 days per week for an hour at a stretch and even going "low carb" did nothing but help me not gain any further. Losing wasn't happening. When I got discouraged, after months of sticking to the diet religiously, and fell off the wagon for a week or two, the pounds just packed on. Within that period I went from 140 to over 200 lbs. all the while dieting and exercising my little heart out. I went to doctors, tried different diets, tried different exercises, balanced hormones, everything I could think of short of sheer starvation.

Finally, in November I decided to try something different and began researching diets based on food combining. Suzanne Somers had written several books that I have enjoyed and found helpful and several of them were her new diet. It is similar to Adkins, ketogenic in basis and VERY low carb, but based around food combining.

I have found that after a couple weeks off of carbs, I don't often have those cravings any more. When I do, there are recipes withing the rules of the diet that more than satisfy my sweet tooth. I don't have to weigh food, count calories, fat grams or points. I can eat until I am satisfied and have all the snacks I want...and they don't have to be carrots and celery! In fact, carrots are not even a food that is allowed.

I found that a LOT of the foods I was eating as "diet foods" were in fact "forbidden" in this diet. If I want a double cheeseburger with fries, I have one, but I either must make my own Oopsie Rolls for buns or use lettuce instead or just forget the bun and eat what's inside. Since potatoes are off the menu, I make celery root fries or home fries and it's great. I make cheesecake, ice cream, jello, cocoa, pancakes, lasagna, and pizza within the allowed foods on the diet and they are scrumptious. I am allowed cheese, cream, butter, bacon, steak, chicken with the skin on and a lot more that you could never have on other diets. I can have a big juicy steak and twice baked (celery root) potatoes with cheese, salsa, sour cream and bacon bits. Does that sound like a diet you could live with?

I have lost 16 lbs since November. If you try it and stick to it you will NOT be disappointed. You must cook for yourself though, but after you learn the ropes you can easily find items in restaurants that fit into your diet without feeling deprived of anything.

Mmm cake.

But srsly. I get it- I really need to cut my carbs down too which it why I've been focusing on getting at least 125 gr of protein a day. If I'm concerning all my efforts on protein, I just naturally eat more lean meats, dairy and other protein providing foods. Bread doesn't provide much protein so I'd rather spend the calories on something that does. It seems to be working for me so far.

Detox. Srsly. Give yourself a couple of weeks off of the sugar. Instead, eat whole grains and fruit. It'll get easier.

Fruit contains sugar too, how is that 'detox'?

Yes, I have a suggestion. I'll send it to you in a private email. Sending you well wishes.

Don't tell yourself you can't have it, that often leads to eating a ton of it later. If you want it, have a little but just be in moderation and add it to your log. I eat chocolate or a cookie EVERY single day but I'm losing weight because I just have small amounts and fit it into my daily allotment.

One thing that helps me to have less is to put it off. I want a cookie? Then I can have one. In an hour. When the hour is up I tell myself to wait again for an hour. Usually I will finally have it at some point in the evening but by saying I CAN have it, just later, I don't feel as deprived. Then only having one feels just fine.

That's sounds exhausting to me. I'm well and truly glad to be done with the constant obsession with food.

By all means moderate if you can OP but another option is to severely restrict those foods so you don't want them at all. It only takes a few weeks to get them out of your system. Save the treats for special occasions and celebrations instead of battling cravings daily.

Do you eat your cake and cookies in the bathroom stall too?

I finally feel less alone

Do you eat your cake and cookies in the bathroom stall too?

I finally feel less alone

youre not alone.

though i had to switch to vanilla frosted cake...i had an unfortunate......"incident" while eating in a bathroom stall

Do you eat your cake and cookies in the bathroom stall too?

I finally feel less alone

youre not alone.

though i had to switch to vanilla frosted cake...i had an unfortunate......"incident" while eating in a bathroom stall

Will you sponsor me and hold my hand?

Or just hold me.....yeah, just hold me. I'll feed you cake in the stall.

Anything you want