Addicted to candy need some advice

I posted this in the VSG forum as well but I'm hoping to get some local help if need be.


I'm a couple weeks shy of my 7 month anniv. and the past couple days, weeks even I have been feeling pretty crappy about myself.  I have been totally off track and fee like I haven't been on track for a while.  I'm pretty ashamed about my behavior and lack of involvement. 
Today after I took my son to school I stoppedx to fuel up and found myself in the candy isle...again...seaqrching my (almost daily) guilty pleasure.  Usually is something fruity sweet (skittles, starbursts, twizzlers) and a chocolate item(s). 
Well times are tough for me as they are for most these days and I put my last 20 in the tank but I could taste those sweets and needed them...so what did I do?  I went to my truck and scrounged for change....Then I realized....I am an addict.  Like the many  alocholics, drug addicts and fiends doing anything to get their fix.  I felt dirty and discusting as I purchased "my precious" with the dirty dimes, nickles, and quarters. I got to my truck and savored a few skittles and sighed as if it had been a lifetime sincew my last "fix" but it had only been the day before.  
I'm lost as to what to do.  The massive headache I get after eating surgary things obviously isn't enough to deter me and I fear I am going to end up where I was before surgery. 
I just can't seem to get away from the candy
I don't have a problem staying away from the cookies and pastries and other sweets stuff...it's the candy.

Hang in there! If money's tight, maybe the suggestion of therapy isn't such a good one, but maybe there is low-cost therapy at one of your local hospitals or universities? You need to figure out why you're doing this, which pretty much amounts to self-sabotage. Even the mighty malabsorptive DS can be derailed by sugar--it's the Devil to people with WLS. You know this, but you're still doing it. Are you "afraid" of success?

What if you posted on the main board what you're eating every day? (I think they still have a daily "what are we eating" type thread there.) That might make you be more accountable and keep you on track.

You are worth doing whatever it takes to beat this sugar beast.

Nicolle

I know this sounds crazy and maybe it won't work for you.  I am a food addict too.  I think a lot of us are...I mean if you weighed over 300+ lbs (like I did) something was wrong that made us keep eating and eating.  Now I tackle things one by one because doing them all at once is too much.  So I have a thing for cookies, cakes, and pastries.  So what I do is just stop eating cookies cold turkey.  It's hard at first but after awhile it gets easier and easier and then pretty soon I don't crave it all anymore.  So then I did the same thing with fast food...no more,  cold turkey...now I don't eat there anymore and I'm not tempted at all.  It's like the longer I stay away from something the less of a pull it has on me. 

But don't beat your self up about having a weak moment.  As long as you get up and try again and again. 

The story about searching for change to buy some candy...that happened to me too...except for me it was soda I had to have...that was my addiction of choice back then.  Not anymore!!! 

 

I used to be addicted to Mt. Dew before surgery and quit cold turkey with that....although I have a glass  of soda every now and then it's no longer a crutch for me.  I don't go overboard anymore, but its just something about having that item at hand and when I want it.  Hell, I was debating going to Overeaters Anonymous, but my husnad claims I don't overeat anymore and when I ask him to help me out and keep me from candy he says I get mean, which I do, when he says someting. 

I so understand what you are going through.  Asking my husband does not help either.  Just take one day at a time.  Heck, 1 hour at a time.  I have given up candy and chips for lent so now by thing is coffee.  like today I have not had anything to eat yet but I am on my 2nd pot of coffee. 

Thank you for the help.  I also think it has something to do the the time of the month because th cravings aren't so strong now after I've started the monthly issue.  So maybe if I am more aware of "that time" an stock my shelves with healthier snacky items it will help.