Anybody have success in eating sweets til you're sick?

Eating sweets until I'm sick is how I got to 250lbs in the first place. I understand where the theory comes from but highly doubt it would work.

With cigarettes and alcohol, it tends to work but a) you get much sicker off a "binge" on them than you would off of food, and b) they are very specific products where as sweets come in all flavours etc. Even with gettng sick off booze, most people only avoid that particular type from them on. You couldn't binge on every type of sweet you enjoy to put yourself off each and every one of them.

On further though, I could actually see this as the start of a binging issue.

if you crave sweets that won't work. Having done that about a million times I can say from personal experience it didn't anything. Of course you might be smarter than me.

Also - try to find the people who did that with cigarettes or alcohol. Maybe it works when you're 15 and if you never really liked those things to begin with. But people addicted to sweets, nicotine, alcohol: that just doesn't happen.

Also, I doubt you mean "processed fats". Probably just fatty foods. The only really processed fat is margarine, I doubt you are eating tubs of that. Though it's in junk food generally.

No.

I find moderation is a much better approach. All the foods I love, fit into my calorie goal while maintaining a balanced diet = win.

It's probably going to increase your craving for sugar, if anything. And that is one hard thing to turn down, I tell ya hwut.

resistsweets wrote: »

I am trying to lose weight... Have been for a long while and my weakness is processed fats and sweets (candy, cookies, etc) I was thinking, what if I stuffed myself sick of all these foods I love until I'm sick and never want them again? Think that'd work? I hear of it working with alcohol and cigarette type addictions. input?

No, just no. Your body is addicted to sugar so giving it high quantities is not going to make it change. You will feel sick, but as soon as the feelings of illness wear off and the guilt sets in you'll be right back in the cookie jar.

When I'm not eating well for a few days, I will eventually start craving fruits and want to get back on track. But the train will derail again, I don't think it would be a long-term effective strategy. If you are craving sweets all the time, what about upping the fruit intake? Pineapples, bananas, and grapes all hit the sugar spot very well. Keep some bananas or cut up fruit with you at times you might be thinking of a way to get your next sugar fix.

I TRIED THAT WITH COKE AND OMG OM GOMG IT TOTES WORKS I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT EXCUSE ME WHILE I GO REARRANGE MY FURNITURE!!