Why can I eat sweets??!!

Am I the only one that can tolerate REAL SUGAR?! Before surgery, I could take or leave sweets! Now I find myself having a bite here and there!!! I know it is a Why now? Jennifer Uzarski

I can tolerate sugar too. It is very hard around the holidays when baking cookies and other sweets. I try not to indulge, but I have had a cookie and few small candies. I really worry that Im getting off track. Ive been eating around 1000 calories a day!!!!! I need to cut back !

I know how you feel...sounds like me! I was hoping that sugar would make me dump so I couldn't have it. I guess we shouldn't be too hard on ourselves Take care! Jennifer Uzarski

I don't know. I've gone sugar free. I simply don't want to know whether I can eat it or not so I'm just assuming I can't and that it will make me deathly ill. So far being sugar free has been the most liberating thing.. I no longer crave sweets. I can actually be near them and not even once get the thought or desire to eat it.

I agree with you Tinker! I went totally sugar free, my dietician said not to go over 8 grms of sugar, and I dont...period. I don't WANT to know if I can eat the sugar...that would be a big mistake for me. I've discovered many sugar free things that work when I have the sweet-tooth craving, which isn't very often anymore! Today I went to Starbucks and had a sugar-free Hazelnut Latte...it was wonderful!!!

"I don't WANT to know if I can eat the sugar...that would be a big mistake for me." Amen to that. I'm with you on that, don't know and sure as heck don't wanna find out ;)

Agree with you Tinker- I don't want to pu**** I have had a small bit of other people's desserts, or maybe 1/8 of hershey's kiss, but other than that I try to keep everything below 12 g. of sugar. It was my biggest weakness before surgery. I would eat a piece of chocolate here and there and go through half a pound a day like that. I stick to the no sugar added options, and check and see if the sugar content is below my 12 g mark. Andrea

I can too. My Dr. says that up tp 20 percent of patients don't dump. I was totally counting on this to keep me on track, but now it's up to me. C Leigh

I can eat sugar all day long! UGH! Who knows why we were the lucky ones, but at least we can't eat that much of it! I find that if I let myself take a bite, I don't overdo. Whereas if I deprive myself, I eat more. I know - I'm nuts - but whatever works right? I only eat half of whatever it is. That usually keeps me safe. It's the only rule I give myself. HUGS Kimberly

Me too. :o( Wish I would never have touched the stuff...I need to make sure and have SF Fudgesicles or pudding on hand to crave my sweet tooth. I cannot have too much though...I will have bad dreams. I know that seems crazy but that is the one thing I have noticed if I have too much sugar. I seem to have nightmares with different medicines too--like the Loritab we took after surgery for pain. (Those nightmares were ones of me getting shot at or other gruesome details--which I never had dreams like that before!). I wonder if it has to do with if we were diabetic before surgery or not. I was not, so maybe that is why I am able to handle the sugar now? Just a thought. Mandie