Help! I just can’t get going! Sugar addiction…

[Thatsnotall]

So, long story short, I’ve gained about 4/5 pounds each year for the past decade….. I’ve genuinely not really ‘noticed’ as the change has been so slow. However, I’m now at a point where I am 4 stone heavier than I once was and am now on the threshold between overweight and obese. I’ve been kidding myself about this for a while but I need to do something and stop burying my head I the sand. At my lightest, I was still not ‘skinny’ but I barely ate - it was that early 20s kind of diet where it’s a snatched coffee and toast for breakfast and then drinks after work, repeat kind of thing so it wasn’t healthy, and it’s also not an achievable weight for me but I’d like to shed three stone (though two as a minimum), over the next 6 months if I can, just because that feels like a manageable timescale and realistic too BUT why oh why can I not get going?! I literally have a great ‘first day’ and then it all goes to pot. Does anyone have any advice for how I can get my head right on this? I have young kids and definitely snack without realising it. I also have a dreadfully sweet tooth and I’m beginning to realised I am genuinely addicted to sugar…..

Can anyone offer any advice or help as to how I can better get my head into breaking this shit cycle I have with food?? I don’t need to be educated on food - I am very very clear on what foods I should and shouldn’t be eating for well-being, and weight loss, and nutritional benefit…. I am also very clear on what being overweight is doing/will potentially do to my health. It’s not an education problem - I genuinely feel as though I have an addiction problem. I can only liken it to wanting to quit smoking and finding you just can’t resist ‘one more fag’ (I don’t smoke btw but this is what a friend described to me!). I just can’t resist ‘another bit of toast,’ or ‘one more biscuit.’ I wondered about trying hypnotherapy to try and learn some behavioural management techniques but would dearly love to hear advice from anyone. I feel utterly grotesque and the sight of my naked body makes me feel like hiding away forever. (I don’t drink alcohol if that is relevant in any way!)

I’ve just completed the Wildfit 90 day challenge - if that doesn’t do it nothing will.

@NavigatingAdolescence

I’ve just completed the Wildfit 90 day challenge - if that doesn’t do it nothing will.

Thanks!! I’m off to google! Xx

Try changing one small thing at a time, a la Tiny Habits book.

The Human Being Diet by Petronella Ravenshear will tame the sugar monster! She's on Instagram too - she's fabulous and it works!

I've recently bought something called Killa Vanilla which claims you sniff it and it helps curb sugar cravings. I was remembering to use it and it did work for over a week, fab for me, but then I forgot about it and ended up chomping chocolate again the other night.

I had to break my sugar habit at the start of my ‘get fit, get healthier’ weight loss campaign which began May 2020 and levelled out in March 21. Lost 18Kg.

Pick a few days when you will be out and about and very busy. Have no sweet stuff in the house. Have healthy savoury snacks and hit drinks you like.

It took about 5 days for me to stop craving sugar.

After that I have had sweets and chocs, cake etc, but as a treat, on an occasion etc. I don’t make a big deal if it, just enjoy it and go back to my healthier eating menu. Sometimes I had a serious binge, just shrugged and started again the next day.

It took about a week of eating less for my appetite to naturally diminish.

I just did no snacks unless healthy snacks, smaller portions of normal dinners, smaller portion Al lol

I am the same OP. I started again today. I am treating it like the military. Just focus, stay disciplined and this time, I am not getting distracted. The rest of them had pizza for lunch but I just stayed upstairs while they all stuffed their faces. I feel fine actually and don't care if they stuff their faces.

Fully agree with @EdgeOfTheSky - it will take me 5 days to get into it and then just the odd treat/special occasion
DS birthday is on 1st November but by then i will be over one week in, Christmas is just round the corner, have to stick to it

there is also a pair of jeans that i can't zip up that i am going to be trying on once a week...

don't get down with it, think of it as a positive thing to better health rather than suffering to get to where you want... if you have a binge - just start again the next day and start again

exercise also helps for me as i feel guilty stuffing my face after so much effort