Sugar cravings
Audreihanna
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I can't get sugar out of my head! I am so addicted! Help! What are good ways to get through this sugar cravings
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A can of Pepsi max gets me through!!!0
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What are your goals?
What steps are you taking to achieve them?
How does sugar interfere with those goals?0 -
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I eat an apple. It sounds awful, but it satisfies the sugar craving.2
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Kind of. I just remembered something else! Frozen peaches (unsweetened) heated in microwave, with a little cinnamon and a squirt of Redi Whip. It's like pie.3
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Just keep it up. If it is something you're used to eat a lot of, it'll take some time but the cravings will stop. Once you stop craving it as a default you have so much more control over it and can have it occassionally without going overboard. A treat rather than a habit.0
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Eat fruit?0
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Carlos_421 wrote: »
It's impossible to cut out sugar entirely. Fruit is naturally sweet, it's not something someone has added sugar to and, fruit typically has soluble fiber so it's beneficial. Whereas, say, cake or candy is not.4 -
Carlos_421 wrote: »
But there's nothing wrong with that!
Granted, if OP can control fruit okay it suggests the issue may not be "sugar." And of course that lots of the cals in many "sweets" are from fat anyway.4 -
iamthemotherofdogs wrote: »Carlos_421 wrote: »
It's impossible to cut out sugar entirely. Fruit is naturally sweet, it's not something someone has added sugar to and, fruit typically has soluble fiber so it's beneficial. Whereas, say, cake or candy is not.
The bold is my point. The problem isn’t sugar. It’s too many calories.
Also, it doesn’t matter whether sugar is added or naturally occurring. It’s the same chemical substance.1 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »Carlos_421 wrote: »
But there's nothing wrong with that!
Granted, if OP can control fruit okay it suggests the issue may not be "sugar." And of course that lots of the cals in many "sweets" are from fat anyway.
Exactly. That’s what I was hinting at.
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Fruit is sugar but your body processes it differently. When I️ crave sweets I go to fruit first. But if you really have to a small piece of dark chocolate not going to put you over the top1
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Audreihanna wrote: »I can't get sugar out of my head! I am so addicted! Help! What are good ways to get through this sugar cravings
What foods exactly are you overeating?0 -
janedupont114 wrote: »Fruit is sugar but your body processes it differently. When I️ crave sweets I go to fruit first. But if you really have to a small piece of dark chocolate not going to put you over the top
That’s a myth.
Added sugar is typically sucrose (which breaks down within seconds into its component parts of 50% glucose and 50% fructose) or high fructose corn syrup (45% glucose and 55% fructose).
Sugar in fruit is a mix of glucose, fructose and sucrose.
It’s the exact same chemical substance, regardless of the source and is processed the same, regardless of the source.
The problem is overall calories, not the “type” of sugar...or sugar at all.5 -
I drink water first, as many of my 'sugar' cravings are dehydration. If it really is a demand for sugar, I go for fruit, very dark chocolate or diet sodas. If it's hormonal sugar cravings that really are hard to fight when you're already feeling under-par, I have two or three safety net sugar treats. Yoghurt ice lollies (are they called popsicles in USA?) They are about 50-70 calories but take time to eat because they're frozen. Another is a diet hot chocolate. Very synthetic but it hits the chocolate/sugar spot and is only 40 calories.2
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I drink water first, as many of my 'sugar' cravings are dehydration. If it really is a demand for sugar, I go for fruit, very dark chocolate or diet sodas. If it's hormonal sugar cravings that really are hard to fight when you're already feeling under-par, I have two or three safety net sugar treats. Yoghurt ice lollies (are they called popsicles in USA?) They are about 50-70 calories but take time to eat because they're frozen. Another is a diet hot chocolate. Very synthetic but it hits the chocolate/sugar spot and is only 40 calories.
If diet soda fixes it, it wasn’t a sugar craving.
Diet soda has no sugar.1 -
janedupont114 wrote: »Fruit is sugar but your body processes it differently. When I️ crave sweets I go to fruit first. But if you really have to a small piece of dark chocolate not going to put you over the top
Fruit is not sugar, it contains sugar.
Your body does not process the sugar in fruit differently from other sugar. It may process the fruit itself differently from some other foods containing sugar, depending on what the other foods are and what else they contain and how much sugar they have.1 -
Ive found it takes 2 weeks of no "sugar" foods for those cravings to disappear. Those 2 weeks weren't easy for me but once that passed i find an apple a day does help. By sugar foods i mean cookies, chocolate and sweet treats5
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Ive found it takes 2 weeks of no "sugar" foods for those cravings to disappear. Those 2 weeks weren't easy for me but once that passed i find an apple a day does help. By sugar foods i mean cookies, chocolate and sweet treats
But those are not just sugar? Why single out the sugar? Thirty years ago it would have been the fat in those same foods to be singled out...
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If you armed yourself with sugar and gluten one could conquer the world. Who could stand against such evil weapons of mass destruction? Seriously though, I'd rather eat an apple to cure a sugar craving than a candy bar. It's just got more nutritional value to it. However, if you're craving candy then have a small piece every so often. Denying yourself any food for extended periods of time will increase the likelihood of binging on that food in the future.0
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