Sugar Addiction -Help?

Depends on how you do things. You could go off the deep end and just throw everything out and not have it in the house. Maybe then you won't be so tempted. Or you can try and down your portion sizes and mainly stick to fruit, eventually weaning yourself off of it all together. Me, personally, if it's in the house I will eat it, not having the temptation is a big thing for me. Know yourself and identify what will work for you, then you can do it!

Buy a box of kiddie snacks and allow your son to keep a tally on how many are in the box. He can cross out as he eats them. If you eat any, you will have some explaining to do.

So I have come to realize over this long holiday weekend that I ingest WAY too much sugar. I don’t eat fried food too much, and i drink nothing but water, however i eat a lot of sugar. By a lot I mean every night after dinner I HAVE to have some thing sweet such as ice cream, cookies, or fruit with whipped cream. On weekends when I am home all day I find myself craving sugar. How can I wean myself off sugar? My diet is pretty paleo other than this and some occasional bread relapsing.

I know exactly what you mean! Since joining this site and logging what I eat, I've noticed how sugar affects me.

I think most of us indulged yesterday. I know I did. I felt terrible last night - shakey and emotionally drained and irritable.

I only notice this when I eat actual sweets - cookies, cakes, and candy. I don't have a particular problem with things like sugar in peanut butter or ketchup. At least, not that I've noticed.

If my cravings get too out of hand, I usually have to completely cut out refined sugars for a few weeks and then slowly re-introduce them back into my diet. Either that, or I just have to tell myself no, you've had enough junk for the day/week, you aren't getting that extra snack.

how do you cut them out completely?? i need your willpower!

I will cut it out and do something like - if I don't eat the little chocolate bunnies (for example) until next Saturday, I will do ( ). Sometimes I will have a much better version of what I am craving (say, if I wanted M&Ms, I might have a nice piece of cheesecake, or sometimes it is a new nail polish, whatever will keep me going). I don't cut it out forever, just long enough to cut out the cravings. Then I make sure I have something I really enjoy. Sometimes, a nice piece of dark chocolate a day keeps the cravings away, sometimes a glass of wine a day. You have to find something that works for you that you can manage.

I used to think i NEEDED dessert every night. I was brought up that way and continued through life that way. Recently, I have realized it is not a need.

You are not depriving your son by not having processed sugar in the house. I used that to justify as well.

Get rid of it and just go cold turkey.

60 Minutes had a great piece on April 1 about the effects of sugar on your body. I suggest you google it and watch it. It was really an eye opener.

Go on you tube and look up "sugar, The Bitter Truth" by Dr Lustig. It's long but very very good! I cut sugar almost completely out of my diet (before ever seeing this) just cuz it (and pasta and bread) make me very bloated...I am now convinced that the key reason I have been so successful and reshaping my body is mostly due to no sugar! I have never been hungry and after about a week (of saying no to all the cakes and crap at work) I never crave it but rather look at sugar laden foods and think yuck! Easter was not an issue at all! Good luck and please check out the sight! (he is a bit radical thinking sugar should be banned completely but the info on sugar is spot on)

PS: When I say I gave up sugar I did not mean natural sugar that we find in fruit!!! :0)

Why don't you start reducing it in your coffee. I used to have 2 teaspoons per cup and reduced it. Now I can't stand any sugar in my coffee or tea...it's nasty

For all of you sugar addicts out there.....please give some suggestions to have after dinner! I have got the rest of the day covered by eating clean foods, but I can't seem to find something satisfying after dinner. I can't seem to make myself have just a piece of fruit. Help!!
Do you all eat things like sugar free pudding? I don't want to go overboard with things like this, but I am thinking this would help.

For all of you sugar addicts out there.....please give some suggestions to have after dinner! I have got the rest of the day covered by eating clean foods, but I can't seem to find something satisfying after dinner. I can't seem to make myself have just a piece of fruit. Help!!
Do you all eat things like sugar free pudding? I don't want to go overboard with things like this, but I am thinking this would help.

Try this pudding: http://thesassygourmet.com/?p=216

You will need to cut them out of your diet completely.

Would you believe that it is the sugar in alcohol that alcoholics crave? This is why we suggest to them to carry candy with them when they first stop drinking.

Good luck, coming off of sugar is hard. The best way to be successful in this is to make sure there is none of this stuff in the house.

....this quote makes so much sense...and i feel like im addicted to sugary fats. i literally go to them when i'm having an upsetting situation i don't want to deal with and they make me feel better (temporarily) when i have them. it is a vicious cycle. i think going cold turkey is all that works for me and that is what i am starting today. if i know i can't have them i'm fine. if i think i'll just have a little...watch out!!! there's no moderation with this for me.

I havee become a sugar addict i eat about 8 packs of certs a day and i need to get it under control, i weigh about 104lbs its not putting weight on me but OMG i cant stop eating certs all day long one after another ..i gave up coffee last year prior to certs i was eating the breathe savers which destroyed my stomach so i need to stop cold turkey did anyone else ever get addicted to certs?