Hi Denise - that will happen to me too. I can't have anything in the house. If I have any "fun" food in the fridge I will binge after everyone goes to bed. I have to really plan out my food everyday.

@denisemarielarnder

Sadly, that's usually where mine sneak in... I can prepare against stress and tired and whatever. But random mood shifts? It's seemingly impossible when blind-sided. I've started supplementing some amino acids loosely based on a formula someone else sells, but it has seemed to be helping me manage the outrageous sugar/carb cravings, which is where my binges nearly always start...

If you are interested in what I read that help me get started - it was this, combined with articles on how similar sugar and alcohol addictions are, and things of that nature: carbsyndrome.com/is-your-brain-two-quarts-low/

So, once you find something that helps your...wiring?...start working better...whether placebo or not, it sure helps!

@denisemarielarnder - I felt about that same way reading that article. I don't know about the branded supplement on there, but depending on how often you have to take things, etc., it might be worth getting their formula, but based off of this article and some other articles about how l-glutamine and mega-vitamins can help detox and rewire the addict brain (alcoholism is the main focus), I decided it couldn't hurt to try. I already responded in PM, but here is the info in case any one else wants it...

Currently what I'm taking is:

AM: I'm taking a blend in the am that copies my B12 shot (similar to 5-hour energy or whatever, my endo approved a single one daily in the AM because my body was doing better with B12 absorption that way, and he felt that as long as I only did one a day and only on work days, that it was okay....that I was taking, but it has AS, dyes, and crap in it, so I take this at maybe 6:30 am/7:00 am, and don't usually have any form of breakfast until 8:30 am or so... (taking the acids separate from food allows them to be absorbed differently.

7:00 am: caffeine (200 mg), 1000 mg c, 400 mg folate, 500 mg l-tyrosine, 50 mg 5-htp, 500 mg l-glutamine, 600 mg NAC blend, 500 mg taurine

At bedtime, after dinner (need to take away from food to allow absorption differently, again), I take 1000 mg c, 400 mg folate, 1500 mg l-tyrosine, 100 mg 5-htp, 500 mg l-glutamine.


I like getting the separate ingredients so I can tweak the quantities I take of anything. In fact, I took 150 mg of the 5-HTP last night, because that's the ratio in the formula - 1500 mg l-tyrosine to 150 mg 5-HTP - but it gets expensive when you're taking multiple pills to get a dose. I found a better formula online that has the B6 and C or somesuch already in it with the 5-htp, plus I think it was cheaper, so I'll probably switch when I'm out.

I started out slower with just l-glutamine, and then just l-tyrosine, 5-htp, and l-glutamine, half doses, at night, but it caused me to be hungry and have sweets cravings the first day or 3, so I jumped up to the higher dose, like in the article. It seemed to work, almost immediately at the higher dose.

If I go the formula itself, would be smaller doses through the day, but I already have to work around probiotics and stuff, so I didn't want to overly complicate things even more...