AIBU to tell you I’ve found the miracle cure for excessive sugar consumption

The problem with dates though is that they make you crave and retain water and feel all bloated.

I wonder how ferrerer roche like they would be if rolled in chopped nuts.

Or desicated coconut 😄

I too have a terrible sugar addiction.

I love fresh dates.🌴

Tip: Buying Dates around Ramadan 🌙 brings out some real beauties for sale. Almost like a delicious fudge.

Re chocolate...I used to like British chocolate, but it has changed in taste

Most 'cheap' chocolate is really 'waxy' these days, kind of greasy textured and not nice at all.

Palm oil is probably the culprit.

However....bought one of these yesterday to share with three of us, and oh my goodness.... all 3 said it was the nicest chocolate that they had had in years.

It was just a perfect texture and taste.

This has inspired me to pop to the shops, and I'm now at my desk having eaten 3 dates and 2 squares of dark chocolate, and perfectly satisfied my sugar craving.

I totally get where you're coming from OP.

They sound lovely OP. I have the same problem with chocolate, particularly after dinner, so this is well worth a go.

I now just need a way to drink tea and coffee without a shit tonne of sugar, if you have a cure for that, I'm all ears!

I've more or less kicked sugar/junk cravings (did Zoe/libre glucose monitoring which was quite enlightening, even moreso for DH who is from a family of T2 diabetics). I managed to do the weaning of chocolate with a progress down to the 'one or two squares of 85% dark chocolate' or even 100% montezuma with 10 g of nuts. So much more satisfyingly chocolatey than crappy cadburys etc.

My cure for eating sugar is similar only without the dates and mostly without the chocolate but it still fills the sweet tooth gap somehow.

Melt peanut butter and coconut oil in pan. Pour into chocolate moulds and freeze. You can fill just short of top then when slightly frozen add melted dark chocolate or raw chocolate for a more decadent fix but the plain peanut butter ones work for me. The taste and fat satisfies my sugar craving.

On a keto diet these work a treat. On a normal diet it might be too much fat. But way better than the sugar.

You do need 100% no sugar added peanut butter (I use organic) and a high quality coconut oil. Delish!

Or peanut butter! 😞😀

Hey, I think your strategy is great if it works for you! I'm just commenting on this in your OP the fibre in the dates means that your blood sugars don’t shoot up and commenting that this isn't the case in our experience. Your screenshot above relates to people with diabetes who obviously don't have the same blood glucose response to people without! What our (very small sample size!) experiments indicated is that dates, apricots and prunes all cause blood sugar spikes though not as much as chocolate or Coca Cola which was frankly alarming!

I eat dates with peanut butter, not everyday but when I fancy one. I also make chocolate balls for my dc which are whizzed up oats, medjol dates, coco powder, almond butter and cinnamon.

Still sugar/choc but better than processed milky stuff with lots of additives.

Huff another its easy jusy 'replace chocolate bars with fruit/nuts combo' :( ... I'm sulking because I'm a sugar addict but I don't like fruit or nuts (i wish i did)

That's it.. it's an old vague reference, but I'm glad someone picked up my choclate salty balls.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zgqlMoFpOlg

They sound tasty but I think most dates come from Israel and I don't really want to give any money to Israel at the moment.

Proper coco dampens sugar cravings as well..200 ml heated up milk, 1 teaspoon of coco, no added sugar.

Dates definitely do spike your blood sugar. DH and I have been monitoring blood glucose with libre monitors and trying different foods. DH is mostly sugar free, and ate 2 dates as an experiment which caused a big spike.

I read this as 'I basically starve myself at meal times and then binge eat in the evenings to compensate for the lack of calories'.

Funnily enough, when I actually started eating a proper amount of calories and food, I stopped craving sugar without needing to resort to bullshit like this.

I consider myself to have a sugar addiction.

While I love dates, especially with marzipan and dark chocolate, I just cannot moderate my behaviour around anything sweet. Even if I can start to eat them in a controlled way, over time I find myself eating more and more and more different things, too.

Like many other addictions, cold turkey is the only thing that works for me. And brings unexpected benefits including having my tastes change so that unsweetened rhubarb with plain yoghurt tastes good and carrots appear unreasonable sweet. I'd rather keep than than wrestle having the occasional sweet meant.

Great plan. I hate dark chocolate sadly. Dates are really high in sugar and pb is over 600cals per 100g. So it's energy dense and less processed which is awesome, and is satisfying. Problem is I'd probably binge on them a bit. But it's more filling than regular chocolate definitely.
I do a spoon of almond butter and a dried fig! Lol, pretty similar really.