Please help with my sugar addiction!!

1/2 cup natural peanut butter, no sugar added
1/2 cup sugar or sweetener of choice
1 teaspoon molasses
1/4 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup slivered almonds
1/2 teaspoon baking powder (aluminum free)
1 1/2 cups almond flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1- preheat oven to 375° F
2- mix together peanut butter, sugar, molasses, cream, almonds, baking powder, almond flour, salt and vanilla
3- spoon onto a greased cookie sheet to make 20 cookies
4- bake 10 to 12 minutes or until set
5- let cool until cookies stiffen enough to handle
Per Serving (1 cookie)
7g carbohydrates
1g fiber
4g protein

Taste is great, even the kids love them. Not the lowest calorie/sugar thing I have ever eaten, but deals with the PB cookie craving when it happens.

If it's sugar you really want, try fruit.

try strawberries and also quark yogurt red velvet flavor

Sugar flowers suitable for the sweetest hummingbird.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qWqnDDtcv2g

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-11-candy-soda-fast-food-obesity.html

pinggolfer96 wrote: »

I'm confused, are you trying to defeat the addiction or feed it with a sweet/ low cal alternatives?

Yeah, I'm confused... Do you want to reduce your sugar intake or do you want healthier sweets?

Scamd83 wrote: »

If it's sugar you really want, try fruit.

So, different sugar? How does that help?

superhippiechik wrote: »

My name is Serena and I'm addicted to sugar. I've lost the weight, I've adjusted my diet and exercise 3-5 times a week. My problem is sugar. I think I'm part hummingbird. Please share your favorite "goodie" recipes with me. I was loving chocolate avocado "pudding", and ricotta cheese " pudding", but it just isn't doing the trick anymore.
Thanks in advance!
P.S.
I'm always in the market for new "pals". :-)

No, you're not. You just like it a lot.

Don't buy sugary foods when you go to the market as a first step. If it's not in your house, it's much easier to resist. For a sweet treat, eat fruit or dark chocolate. Good dark chocolate (at least 65% cacao) is low in sugar and full of antioxidants. It may seem bitter at first but, if you stay away from foods with high (refined) sugar content for awhile, you will begin to savor dark chocolate and really enjoy the sweetness of fruit.

It's OK to have a sweet treat from time to time unless you find you lose all control once you have something sugary. Then it might be better to stay clear of refined sugar. The nice thing about logging your food is that it builds awareness that helps you recognize your weaknesses and make these kinds of choices in you diet.

Lots of cited articles about sugar here (just put 'sugar' in the search bar at top):
http://authoritynutrition.com/10-disturbing-reasons-why-sugar-is-bad/

Rocknut53 wrote: »

juggernaut1974 wrote: »

Rocknut53 wrote: »

Evidence for sugar addiction: Behavioral and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235907/

Congratulations, you've demonstrated doped up rats may exhibit similar signs as addiction to sugar when they are offered the choice of sugary water or nothing.

See the nutrition debate forum to discuss the concept of "sugar addiction" in humans (hint: it doesn't exist).

To the OP: I find that if I allow myself a small "treat" daily (a couple Oreos or a serving of good ice cream) of a food commonly thought to contain a lot of sugar (although most of them contain an equal amount of, if not more fat) I don't have cravings where I need to binge eat a lot of excess sugar calories.

I didn't demonstrate anything, just posted an article I thought might be worth checking into due to it's description of addiction and the subsequent breakdown of the stages thereof, no need to be so condescending.

It's a weakly designed article that is posted time and time again in the forums, and I'm quite sure many regular posters in the forum are sick of seeing it used as evidence for a popular term that to date hasn't been scientifically proven. In the end, the study has horrible design flaws that gives the researchers the result they want to see:

1 - the rats are starved before the experiment. If you were starved for a period of time to induce hunger, and had a chocolate biscuit and a carrot put in front of you, which would the majority of people eat first?

2 - The rats aren't deprived of water during the fast. If they were deprived of food and water, then given the two options of water or straight sugar (not sugar water), if it was an addiction the sugar would always be eaten first, no matter how thirsty they were.

3 - If you learn you're going to be starved on a regular basis (just like the rats were), and the sugar water is the first thing you're given after each starvation period is over, of course you're going to be conditioned to always take it first over other options. The controls in the trial are horrible.

So as not to take the thread further off topic, I suggest anyone wanting to discuss the nature of sugar addiction head on down to the nutritional debate section of the forum. That's what it's there for.

OP, if you like sweet things a lot, knock yourself out and have something sweet, rather than a substitute to try and 'trick' yourself. If you've lost the weight and are maintaining successfully, unless you're diabetic I don't see why you should have to find alternatives.

girl i have the same problem and it's sooo tough because the more sugar you eat, the more you're gonna crave it. try to limit most of your sugar to mostly fruits and stay away from the processed sugars. there are lots of recipes where you can substitute sugar with applesauce/peanut butter/bananas and they're still really really yummy i'm on my phone right now but i'm gonna try to find a link to these cookies i made using that technique because they were delicious

mangrothian wrote: »

Rocknut53 wrote: »

juggernaut1974 wrote: »

Rocknut53 wrote: »

Evidence for sugar addiction: Behavioral and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235907/

Congratulations, you've demonstrated doped up rats may exhibit similar signs as addiction to sugar when they are offered the choice of sugary water or nothing.

See the nutrition debate forum to discuss the concept of "sugar addiction" in humans (hint: it doesn't exist).

To the OP: I find that if I allow myself a small "treat" daily (a couple Oreos or a serving of good ice cream) of a food commonly thought to contain a lot of sugar (although most of them contain an equal amount of, if not more fat) I don't have cravings where I need to binge eat a lot of excess sugar calories.

I didn't demonstrate anything, just posted an article I thought might be worth checking into due to it's description of addiction and the subsequent breakdown of the stages thereof, no need to be so condescending.

It's a weakly designed article that is posted time and time again in the forums, and I'm quite sure many regular posters in the forum are sick of seeing it used as evidence for a popular term that to date hasn't been scientifically proven. In the end, the study has horrible design flaws that gives the researchers the result they want to see:

1 - the rats are starved before the experiment. If you were starved for a period of time to induce hunger, and had a chocolate biscuit and a carrot put in front of you, which would the majority of people eat first?

2 - The rats aren't deprived of water during the fast. If they were deprived of food and water, then given the two options of water or straight sugar (not sugar water), if it was an addiction the sugar would always be eaten first, no matter how thirsty they were.

3 - If you learn you're going to be starved on a regular basis (just like the rats were), and the sugar water is the first thing you're given after each starvation period is over, of course you're going to be conditioned to always take it first over other options. The controls in the trial are horrible.

So as not to take the thread further off topic, I suggest anyone wanting to discuss the nature of sugar addiction head on down to the nutritional debate section of the forum. That's what it's there for.

OP, if you like sweet things a lot, knock yourself out and have something sweet, rather than a substitute to try and 'trick' yourself. If you've lost the weight and are maintaining successfully, unless you're diabetic I don't see why you should have to find alternatives.

Thanks for pointing out the Nutritional debate section. If Juggernaut1974 would have just pointed that out to me instead of being rude, I would have waltzed on over there and checked it out. That being said, I'm disappointed I didn't leave enough room for more than one chocolate mint tonight. I have cut down, but not eliminated, my sugar "addiction."

socalkay wrote: »

The short answer to ClosetBayesian's question about the difference between fruit and foods containing refined sugar is "fiber." To understand the important significance between refined sugars and sugars that naturally occur in foods, read about Glycemic Index - an approach that was developed in Australia after 30 years of research into Diabetes.

http://www.gisymbol.com/about/frequently-asked-questions/

If a person is truly addicted to sugar, replacing chocolate with an apple is akin to an alcoholic switching from whiskey to Budweiser: they're still consuming the substance.