SYNTHETIC HEROIN IN THE VEINS OF AN ADDICT DOES NOT CURE THE ADDICTION

Hello all - Does anybody notice that eating low/no carb foods sweetened with sugar alcohols still feeds your addiction and keeps your appetite for them whetted?   I am on my 5th day of following the Atkins rules for induction, to break a bad bad carb addiction I have renewed over the last year or so.  One of the reasons I chose it to reset myself over the popular 5 day pouch test was the absence of anything sweet, sweetened any way - including natural, like fruit, as well as sugar alcohols.  Of course I have been having some intense and not so intense cravings fo sweet things.  When in the store, I look at the low/no carb foods out there in the shape and taste of candy and cookies - and for a few seconds I think, "oh that is one carb, I am allowed 20..." then I get this alarm going off in my head, that says something like, "SYNTHETIC HEROIN IN THE VEINS OF AN ADDICT DOES NOT CURE THE ADDICTION". I have seen heroin addiction growing up... it is not pretty.  And I have seen heroin addicts using methadone and dilaudid - synthetic heroin.  Nothing changes, maybe only a little safer from unknown additional substances.  I have also seen recovery from heroin addiction.  Somebody who is staying clean of heroin cannot indulge in popping opiate-type pills, or injecting dilaudid - periodically and not awaken the beast.  If I were to buy and eat low/no carb foods; candy, cookies, soda, pudding - THAT WOULD BE LIKE TELLING A HEROIN ADDICT, "HERE, INJECT THIS DILAUDID A FEW TIMES A DAY, IT WON'T COUNT AS YOUR ADDICTION." "HERE, CARB JUNKIES, EAT THESE SUGAR ALCOHOL SWEETENED HERSHEY BARS AND YOU WILL BEAT YOUR ADDICTION TO SWEETS." Sorry if this is too much of a rant.  I am having a bit of withdrawal and needed to share what is helping me through it...  When I go into the grocery store, I wi**** were illegal to sell us crap-foods.  Processed, unhealthy, easy and cheap stuff.  If we want cookies or bread, we should have to bake them.  The exercise of kneading the dough could offset the calories the bread will bring.  Life is Good - Nona 311/196/159

I understand totally, but don't have the problem with sugar subs. If I eat FAT FREE, OMG! I want to eat everything in a 3 mile radius! Including fish, which I abhor!

Of course, the lower the fat, the higher the sugar, so makes sense.

Last year I went to a party sponsored by a hospital that does WLS and the diet was as fat free as possible. Many of us were planning where we'd go afterward, which we'd never done as a habit before. One of the girls went back, looked over the buffet and said, "I bet there isn't 3g of fat on the whole table! No wonder we don't feel any satisfaction!"

Like you, the 5DPT looks like an all sugar diet to me and would get my cravings going so high I'd never recover! At least short of a 10# gain.

I also use an Atkins like plan to put myself back on the wagon when I get thinking that I can "have just one piece of fudge" or hit of whatever drug comes to mind.

And it only takes ONE.

I don't know...i avoid the sugar free stuff like the plague because it makes me gassy as HECK!!!!   I opt for the full sugar stuff when I indulge. Scott

I'm allergic to Splenda and all sugar substitutes and get an instant migraine and SICK when I eat any of those.  So I avoid them.  Sugar alcohols - do not bother me.  Thankfully - I don't have a sugar addiction, and what tiny bits of sugar I eat - it's the real thing, or the sugar alcohols that are in my protein bars.  I don't use fat-free stuff either.   I dump on anything high in sugar or fat, so that definitely keeps me on the straight and narrow.   I actually have quite a long list of migraine food triggers.  So I deal with a whole other medical condition that dictates my food choices, besides WLS.