Recovering Sugar Addict - Surrounded!

So I've been in training, for work stuff, at a local hotel conference center for the last two days, one more day to go. It has been hard! The spread they put out for us all day long is just STUPID... warm cookies, chocolate bars, ice cream bars, pizza quiches, chips, popcorn, sodas. So far I've sustained by eating fruit, veges and chunks of chicken breast from home, but this is torture! I'm a recovering sugar addict! It's just not fair!

Hi Jewel,

Hang in there.  I have been struggling with my food but one thing I can say as a recovering sugar addict is that I have not picked up sugar.  I haven't eaten sugar in over a year.  I just know if I go there, if I eat sugar, thats something I am not going to be able to come back from for a long time.  For me when I start craving sugar or thinking it might be an option, I think about how sick I used to feel, how run down, how disconnected.  Remembering that helps me turn away.

i hope this helps.  

Thanks Leslie!  It's tough.  Sugar makes me sleepy and gives me really smelly gas, not painful, just smelly.  Not wanting to be embarrassed, I've sustained.  I've been off sugar now for 2 months.  It's not easy, but I think it will have to be for life.  Plus, the scale is moving in large part because of giving up sugar and white carbs (the original directions).  Who knew following directions work! :)

Have a great day!

I make my own Low carb cookies - using eggs, some fat, protein powder, flax meal, nuts and stevia and little bit of backing powder. I don't even follow any real recipe.   I just mix all things together, taste it and if the batter taste good - the cookies will be good. Many times I add some nuts or coconut flakes to the mix.    I either keep the "cookies" in a fridge - freezer or dry them and can keep them in a cookie jar.. Things like that are great for any meeting - conferences. 

note: coconut flour or almond flour can be used in recipes. 

Have not had sugar or white flour for five years...today, it's so different...the withdrawal was tough and a slow burn...I feel so much less angry and anxious now, and although it's tough to be surrounded by food....I try to find some  way to help somebody else..not involving the food, if possible.  So glad you posted, just what I needed to hear. Hope your training went well