Sugar

I love sugar. I crave it. I dump on it yet I still want it.  Lately my sugar sin has been jelly bellies and those tiny little milk chocolate squares .i can surprisingly get quite a few down the hatch quite often during the day and without dumping. Like many others I "want" to stop, but I don't stop. I am exhausted these days, stress and issues up the wazoo, so sugar has always been my thing to get me through.  Tess once asked me if I was happy, well I am not happy cheating myself like this, so I need a plan on how to turn this ship around. I think I will somehow need to dig deep and find it in me to detox from the crap, and then keep away from it.  Any tips you all would like to share are greatly appreciated! I

Plan to get off the sugar - this is an addiction. And once you get off it - do not start - even a little may cause beginning of a relapse.

If i do not eat sugars - carbs - I am fine, but when I start - I have a hard time to stop.

IMO - you need to find something to snack on - to replace the sugar.

For me that was Raw organic Sunflower seeds. They are high calorie food but it does not affect me like sugar does.

This me my "legal" cheat now.

Hala, thank you.  Good advice, when I read your reply it is so clear, wow it's true, the more I have the more I want, boy am I glad I never ventured into the other addictions out there as this is hard enough to stop.  I did add some Splenda to my coffee today to give a replacement to the chocolate I was eating with my coffee/tea.  It helped, and I plan to drop the Splenda once I feel a bit more in control. Today was about 80 percent sugar free, so I am getting stronger, and your advice was spot on, even for timing it gave that push that helps me feel I am on the right track again.  It is so amazing o me that even on my smallest pouch days when even an egg is too much, I can still fill up on carbs/sugar.  

i put chocolate protein in my coffee.  gives me chocolate and protein.

Ruby

rny 3/11/2005