Candy Obsessed

Ksturgis272
Ksturgis272 Posts: 3 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I'm addicted to candy. I literally eat it every day and I need help with stopping it. PLEASE

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  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    A lot of people eat candy every day. Addiction is a strong word. If you want to eat less candy, stop buying it.
  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    If you want anything bad enough, you'll have to work for it. I used to feel like I would never be able to stop overeating. I finally was sick of it and realized I needed to get to the bottom of these issues . sometimes there is an underlying issue that is causing one to feel the need to comfort themselves with food. To break this habit, you would need to get to the root of the problem and work on changing it.
    The word addiction is often volatile here because if you compared your urge for a candy bar to the withdraw symptoms of an opiate addicted person, it wouldn't compare. People feel that it is a smack in face to people with real addiction issues like opiate dependence to compare it to wanting to eat candy. But I'm sure you where likely unaware of this and meant no harm .
  • ultrahoon
    ultrahoon Posts: 467 Member
    Yes, I'd advise against demonising food with such words, it doesn't go over well here.

    That said, what's the issue? A medical reason, or you just find it impossible to stay within your calorie goal due to sugar cravings?
  • Ksturgis272
    Ksturgis272 Posts: 3 Member
    I am addicted. I have withdrawals just like someone addicted to drugs. I know what I said.
  • MelaniaTrump
    MelaniaTrump Posts: 2,694 Member
    edited December 2015
    Throw it all away?

  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    Ksturgis272 wrote: »
    I am addicted. I have withdrawals just like someone addicted to drugs. I know what I said.

    Could you explain the symptoms of your withdraw ? Are you saying you feel your withdraw is comparable to a opioid addicted person who is withdrawing ?
  • ultrahoon
    ultrahoon Posts: 467 Member
    edited December 2015
    Ksturgis272 wrote: »
    I am addicted. I have withdrawals just like someone addicted to drugs. I know what I said.

    Then you need to see an addiction specialist and get help from them, if you're actually suffering physical pain and mental anguish when you try and stop.

    It'll be a long and painful road involving lots of visits to specialists and support groups to break an addiction even remotely comparable to a heroin addiction, but you can do it!
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  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    Another sugar addiction thread that is doomed for closure by the mods...

    OP, the best thing I've found it to leave approximately 300-400 calories at the end of my day to enjoy a treat, usually ice cream or chocolate for me. I do my best to make good decisions throughout the rest of the day and look forward to my treat at night.
  • Ksturgis272
    Ksturgis272 Posts: 3 Member
    Thank you! Finally someone who isn't judge mental.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    Ksturgis272 wrote: »
    Thank you! Finally someone who isn't judge mental.

    So you're going to go to an addiction specialist?
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    arditarose wrote: »
    Ksturgis272 wrote: »
    Thank you! Finally someone who isn't judgemental.

    So you're going to go to an addiction specialist?

    I've not read anything about a 12 step program for this..........

    OP - disagreeing with your term "addiction" is not a judgement.....it's an opinion (that most people share).

    The point is plenty of people here "manage" the amount of sugar they eat, and there is plenty of food besides candy has sugar in it; grains, potatoes, fruit, milk....no one mentions they are addicted to sweet potatoes.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited December 2015
    Ksturgis272 wrote: »
    I'm addicted to candy. I literally eat it every day and I need help with stopping it. PLEASE

    So don't eat it. Simple. Pretty sure there are no 12 step groups for candy (I always find it weird when adults eat candy), but there's OEA if you want.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited December 2015
    Oh, re withdrawal, that's medically impossible.

    The main ingredient in candy is sugar. Not only is sugar in lots of other foods (like fruit, veg, dairy), but any starch basically turns into sugar in your body, because your body runs on sugar. It's rather unlikely that you are actually cutting out sugar as your body recognizes it unless you are doing some kind of keto diet, so withdrawal is impossible.

    As for keto, yeah, if you cut way down on carbs there's an adjustment process since your body prefers to run on glucose (as demonstrated by the fact that NO traditional cultures have diets that leave them in ketosis), but that's not really the same as what gets called withdrawal. It's more akin to starvation.

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