…to ask if anyone’s successfully beaten a sugar addiction

[NellesVilla]

Hi all,

I’ve been on here many a time lamenting my weight issues. Now I’m virtually pre-diabetic and really need to take action.

It goes without saying that I’m verging on obese which is a shame as I was previously slim and active.

I don’t like to admit this irl but I am absolutely addicted to sugar. I can’t get enough. I particularly like vegan marshmallows, chocolate and any type
of cake or biscuit. I can’t get enough of this stuff- particularly the marshmallows which are like my medicine. Awful. Can’t believe I just typed that.

When I try to go without, I manage 1-2 days, before retreating to a private space to ravish and ravage a cake. I can demolish a family-sized lemon meringues or pavlova with no problem. For ref, think girl in Insatiable on Netflix when on a truly horrendous binge.

It’s actually disgusting and I disgust myself. But I am being truthful and need to do something; but what? Restricting? Cold turkey? Slowly reducing? Tried them all.

Does anyone have any methods that work? I don’t smoke, drink or have any other vices. And before anyone suggests the low carb diets, I am a vegetarian.

I have an extremely critical family who don’t help but regularly berate me for my weight and generally society is very judgemental, but I honestly just want to be healthier.

Thanks in advance, for any ideas.

Hmm, I have to say that since I quit the coffee as start taking mood balance supplement ( I had usually really bad pmdd+ sugar cravings)
my sugar intake somehow naturally dropped, I still like something sweet but not like before.

I had a really bad sugar addiction and was obese. I am now a healthy weight and no longer eat or crave sugar. I'm sorry to say that the only way I have managed this is by going low carb. I have tried loads of other things in the past but this is all that has worked for me.

I am also now at the point where I can take some time off low carb for a holiday etc and then get straight back on it without any issues. It has changed the way I think about food and has been a real positive for me.

I went low carb which really helped but I still ate dark chocolate every day-and too much of it tbh. I’d downloaded a giving-up-chocolate hypnosis track but it was all a bit weird and woo, so I abandoned it after 2 mins!

However, when I was having menopausal related insomnia, I thought I’d try the relaxation exercises at the beginning of the track. I was spark out before chocolate was even mentioned. I used it several more times, always fell asleep after the first few minutes. Then I started HRT and forgot about it until I walked past Hotel Chocolat, didn’t feel the usual pull to enter and realised I hadn’t had thought about, bought or eaten chocolate for weeks.

So was it hypnosis or HRT? It broke the habit for me and I’m much less bingey with chocolate and sugar.