How long do sugar withdrawls last? And how bad do they get?

I can't stop yawning today!  And my muscles just HURT!  Any ideas?  Thanks!

Since you was drinking soda that has tons of caffeine in it you are probably crashing from that and will get awful headaches for a few days.  

I do wish you luck because I dont have the will power to give up everything like the sweets lol.  I dont eat them often but I do eat them once in awhile .

You will be tired, and headaches for a few days but you will be okay .  

 I'd say either the sugar alone or the caffeine alone will take 3-4 days to get out of your system, but dumping them both at once- I think you'll need to wait a full week to start feeling good.  It's amazing the difference you feel when your body starts to function without the constant rushes & crashes of sugar.  

This will be a hard week- don't give up!

 Sending up prayers of encouragement for you.  It gets better.  Stay strong.

Are you giving up caffeine or just soda?  I gave up soda when I had surgery 2 and a half years ago and don't really miss it at all.  If you don't drink coffee I recommend iced tea...unsweetened with Truvia.  It is hard to go cold turkey on both sweets and caffeine.  My suggestion?  Give up soda and sweets but get your caffeine if you need it, somewhere else.  I drink only one coffee a day or 1 ice tea so it's not much caffeine compared to what I was doing when I mainlined DC!

I know I've told you this before, but it's pretty impossible to avoid sugar completely.  My Nut recomends limiting sugar by not eating anything with more than 5 g of sugar per serving.  That's one tsp.  It's not easy, (Check out the labels on yogurt someday).  But, it is possible.  I'm weaning myself back off of sugar too so we can start together!

You can do this!

Lisa O.

I am giving up all liquid calories.  Jus****er for me!

And I know sugar is in pretty much everything.  I'm trying to give up more SWEETS than SUGAR.  I know sugar can't really be avoided, unfortunately.

Took me 1 week to begin to feel human!!!   Day 3,4,5 were total hell!!!!!!  You can do this!!!

I agree with LisaO if your just giving up soda I would try coffee with sugar free creamer I didn't think I could ever drink sugar free anything but its not bad. I drank around 6-7 soda's a day before I was banded now I dont drink any. but drink coffee 1-2 times a day. it is real hard to quit both at the same time. Hang in there you can do it.

I remember that feeling. I went on this homeopathic diet once upon a time... and it took about a week or more to start feeling better.

Sugar is kinda like poison to our bodies. But we get so used to having it, don't we? We're like, "Nom nom nom." 

Oh Good Lord.. I can remember eating sugar cubes.. or sugar by the spoonful.

I think I got started when they gave us oral polio vaccine on sugar cubes.   Good idea, unintended results (for me).

To the OP:  yes, if you're not intentionally giving up caffeine, find another way to get it in and that will help.  I drink 2 cups of coffee almost every morning and sometimes a cup in the afternoon if I need or want it.   I use f/f half/half & sugar/free Torani or DaVinci syrups in mine.

Like Lisa O. I try to limit my sugars..I was never given a number by the Nut (I somehow sailed past all the pre-op teaching since my insurance approved me almost over-night), but listening to others talk, and reading others posts, I just picked up on the info to try to keep it low.  I don't have a number I shoot for, I just read labels and choose the lowest among the available selections, or if it's too high for my liking.. I move on to something else.

Hang in there.. it should get easier.