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Any tips on beating a sugar addiction?

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  • KingoftheLilies
    KingoftheLilies Posts: 71 Member
    Switching from white cane sugar to wet brown sugars help assuage any cravings, and brown sugars actually have nutritive value.

    White sugar is nothing but calorie-laden sweetness.
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    For now, try abstaining from the foods you can't control yourself around. Don't purchase them, don't even walk down the cookie aisle in the store. After like 3 months you can test out reintroducing small quantities and see how it goes. This method worked for me. However I am still abstaining 95% of the time; I pretty much only indulge if I am say at a party and these items are on offer. It's just easier for me.
  • marcianne98
    marcianne98 Posts: 20 Member
    I make my own "sweets" and take them in my lunch/dinner box. Homemade cookies with very little sugar and I add stevia...oatmeal... flax seeds...yum. I make an almond milk chocolate pudding that's satisfying and low cal. I do eat small pieces of dark chocolate too. I have lost control with sugar in the past and do fight to be in control.
  • Amik07
    Amik07 Posts: 13 Member
    When I gave up sugar I was craving sweets for a while someone told me to eat frozen grapes and it worked for me good luck.
  • CherokeeBabe
    CherokeeBabe Posts: 1,704 Member
    I work sugar into my calorie goals usually when I want some. 3 squares of chocolate, a klondike bar, protein bars (that taste good), fiber one brownies, etc. I go a little crazy with chocolate sometimes, I'm not perfect, but they don't usually ruin my day/week of hitting my goals.
  • jnv7594
    jnv7594 Posts: 983 Member
    Dancetherapist wrote: »
    ive been able to do it in the past but am having a bit of trouble this time around. It's not like I'm eating a whole cake a day but I find that I NEED (obviously I don't) like a cookie or peanut butter cup or something every day. Any tips ?

    Not sure what's wrong with having a cookie or a peanut butter cup every day. I have a treat like that daily myself. And I agree with those that say it's not an addiction.

  • shadowfax_c11
    shadowfax_c11 Posts: 1,942 Member
    1. Has anyone ever told you that you have a problem with sugar, or that you should cut down on your eating sugar?
    2. Do you wake up and immediately feel like you need to eat sugar or have a sugar fix?
    3. Has eating sugar ever caused you problems in the rest of your life (like caused you to not study enough for a test or fail to finish a paper)?
    4. Have you ever chosen eating sugar instead of another pleasurable experience, like hanging out with friends or family?
    5. Have you ever missed a normal vital part of daily life to eat sugar, like joining your family at the dinner table or taking a shower?


    No? Well then you are not addicted to sugar. You are however using addiction as an excuse for why you can't control your sugar consumption.
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