Sugar

[Lazyi]

It’s embarrassing and ridiculous, but I am addicted to sugar. Had a massive binge yesterday, ate 100g of sweets, massive slice of cake, a pack of cookies and a scone with jam and cream. Now getting night sweats and massive energy slumps. I’ve been addicted to alcohol in the past, and the feeling of cravings is similar. The buck stops here. Please help support me and join me if you wish. This is day one on my sugar free journey.

Feeling a bit disappointed this morning. I’ve lost no weight at all in the last two weeks, if anything in g, put on a bit. I didn’t think that loosing weight was a massive motivator for me, but when I weighed myself this morning, I was really pissed off and disappointed. I’m also a bit stunned. I’m sure I am eating at least 500 fewer calories daily… because I am not eating chocolate, cakes and sweets… it just doesn’t seem logical. I don’t want to start “dieting” or restricting food… because I am really active and want to make sure that I don’t get obsessed with calories… sort of feel like “what’s the point”….

I was the same,I had to start slimming world to actually lose weight.

Thanks for responding @MrsPelligrinoPetrichor … I’m just not sure I want to join slimming world or similar. I don’t really have the energy, and I know that it’s more important to my mental health to stay sugar free.

You just have to do what's right for you. I was just responding to your disappointment as I was the same I thought it would drop off me fast as I ate loads of sugar. It might have done eventually but I think it would've been a slower process. I do think SW was much easier as I'd already given up sugar though.

Keep going, go on how you feel not the scales x

@Lazyi dont be discouraged… weight is so weird anyway, I can be up and down for no reason at all, things will show over the longer term, I reckon.

Good point about mental health- I’m hoping my moods may be more level due to the steadier blood sugar, and PMT improves. Plus there’s the skin and teeth and future diabetes issues, so plenty of motivation. I appreciate you’d like the scales to go down though, I do too!

I get you with the ingrained habit/not thinking so much about food as well. 💪for not eating all the jam last night!!

Can I join you all? I'm hopelessly addicted to sugar. I recognise that I've replaced too much alcohol in the past, and a 30 a day cigarette habit (not smoked for a decade at least) with huge amounts of shit in my diet instead.

I am trying to avoid wheat and sugar at the moment, as I know both of them just spike up my blood levels and make me crave more. I can seriously eat 6 bars of chocolate throughout the day, and then in the evening go through something like a bowl of cereal, two peanut butter sandwiches, 3 creme eggs and a large bag of Haribo at bedtime.

My sleep pattern is, unsurprisingly, shocking and I am now waking at 3am and going down to eat a large bag of jelly babies or similar, before going back to sleep for a couple of hours.

I weigh 6 stone more than I did in my 20s and I'm post menopausal and worried about diabetes.

@Lazyi You say you're very active. Have you tried measuring yourself? Maybe you're slimming down a little as your muscle increases. Don't feel downhearted. It takes a while to work out a plan for yourself.

I've only ever joined one slimming club and that was decades ago with friends and an exercise class after which was very leisurely and fun. Apart from that, I avoid them and just jump on the scales for free. I'm down two pounds this week with masses of exercise and much less tv.

Sorry if that sounded boastful @Lazyi

Next aim for me is to replace the wholemeal bread with sourdough bread, crispbread, and crackers. I'm mad for toast and marmalade and can eat four slices at a sitting. No-one else in this house likes toast and marmalade so I won't have to watch anyone else eating it.

I really recommend Montezumas absolute black chocolate mint/orange. Melt it and mix it with sugar free muslei (I get it from Lidl) and then dollop it onto a baking tray covered in greaseproof and leave to set.

It make me feel like I'm eating a chocolatey treat without any sugar.

Can I join you all? We have a whole host of interrelated food issues in our house. I can't deal with them all, but I can tackle my godawful sugar intake.

Usually I have three or four cakes/chocolate bars/armfuls of biscuits throughout the day, all for perfectly good "reasons" (i.e. conditioned triggers).

At 4am on Sunday I suddenly decided just to go cold turkey for two weeks. (Not for ever. I want to be able to enjoy tea and cake in a cafe or make the occasional apple crumble at weekends, just not inhale multiple Twixes without even looking at them.)

I've tried to cut down before but failed umpteen times. I know my triggers but haven't found ways to avoid them or respond differently to them. So this time I've decided I'd like to see what happens if I don't eat the sugar, despite the trigger. And limiting to two weeks makes it feel achievable.

Oh no! It's not that I want to eat another Snickers, it's just that I'm getting a headache and this will stop it getting worse. I have no choice. What else can I do?! Well, I'm going to try having the headache instead.

I've done 36 hours so far. Think it might be a personal best!

Welcome @fivetriangulartrees !
15 days for me. Woop

@FatGirlTriesAgain2023 .. sounds awesome, not boasting!

Evening all! Welcome to@fivetriangulartrees and ⭐️ For you @FatGirlTriesAgain2023 and everyone else who is resisting the lure!

Day 7 for me. I’ve been really hungry/peckish and smacking all day.

No obvious sugar though. My DD made a cake earlier and I’m not even tempted particularly - just generally hungry.

Well done to all of us!

I can’t decide whether this is genius or a terrible slippery slope! I love it but honestly - one sniff and I might end up throwing in the towel and eating a family sized galaxy as well! 😁

@MadMadMadamMim welcome as well! You are among friends and sympathisers. How did you get on today?

@Lazyi congrats on your whopping 15!

@DaffyDaffy : “Day 7 for me. I’ve been really hungry/peckish and smacking all day.” this was me too!

haha so weird, I wonder why?!p

also I’ve just realised I wrote “smacking” 😐😁

@DaffyDaffy - I thought maybe the smacking took your mind off the food!

If anything there should be less
smacking, since my blood sugar is so stable I’m less cross!

how are you feeling @Lazyi ?

I've managed to stay sugar free since I joined this thread so thank you all! Having support here definitely helps.

I've been avoiding going to my local (amazing!) bakery to buy bread as I always end up buying a cake (or three) when I go in. But I braved it this morning and managed to leave with just the loaf of wholemeal sourdough I went for. It was hard (the cakes looked amazing and I was having a shit day working from home so usually I would have fallen off the wagon with a huge thud) but I managed it.

I've lost 1kg and I have more energy (although that could be entirely unrelated) and I don't hate myself quite as much. Tempura chicken and roasted tenderstem broccoli for dinner tonight. Trying to keep my protein levels high to stave off the hunger but also us menopausal women need more protein. Pretty sure I'll start clucking soon from eating so much chicken though.

This thread now makes me laugh…. Who knew that us sugar obsessive could be so funny! @HundredMilesAnHour … we’ll done on your cake resist! When you are having a shitty day it makes it much harder to resist. You have a will of iron!

Day 4 today and finding it less difficult than I expected.

Yesterday I had a hypoglycemic episode and dealt with it with orange juice and a lot of bread. I have had them every now and then for ages but vaguely assumed they wouldn't happen when I was cutting down on sugary things. I've got to admit I don't really understand how sugar highs and lows work. I should probably get checked for diabetes, shouldn't I?! Ugh.

Sounds like everyone's doing brilliantly!

I have to say I'm not cutting out sugar completely, so well impressed with those that are. I just needed to control the binges. I'm keeping in the family desserts (which are weekend only) and fruit, but avoiding the illicit Haribo and 4 pack of Twirls when I'm at the office.

I looked back and surprised myself that I'm on day 10! This thread has been great to have in the back of my mind when I've been ready to dive into the kids' sweets stash.

Thanks everyone and well done to all of you.

@Doje … I wish I could cut down, I find being sugar free so joyless, but I just can’t do it. One small cake leads to a landslide of sugar.

I was starving yesterday and went on a bit of a random binge… leftovers, children’s oat bars (just oat and apple purée), rasins, yoguart and fruit, cheese…. It could only last for so long because I got full. I actually put some yogurt back in the fridge because I couldn’t eat it. With sugar, o would have been on it until 10pm, and pretty much left the kids to put themselves to bed. That’s why I need to give up….

let me know how you are all getting on!

I'm on day 6. I've still been snacking, mainly with unhealthy savoury things that I wouldn't otherwise have eaten. But I'm astonished I've managed to resist the 4pm Snickers.

Was quite sad yesterday when I went to my local cafe to do some work and couldn't have a cake. My usual table was occupied and I had to sit directly in front of the cake counter! Rub it in, why don't you?!