Breaking Your Sugar Addiction

I love ice cream and once I start I keep eating. I am thankful to have this information it will help me stay focused. I will Keep clear of the ice cream. - 5/10/2013 12:26:40 PM

Thanks for this great article. I have been wanting to cut sugar for a while and not sure how. I hate that every day in the afternoon I crave sweets. My thing is if I don't have something at all I can stick to the plan. Once I have something sweet it is so hard for me to get back to not having it. So, as of this moment...not eating a cookie or adding sugar to the coffee. - 4/30/2013 11:27:44 AM

Sugar addiction is the hardest! according to www.detoxfromsuga
r.com sugar stimulates the same chemical as cocaine and heroin. So it is def an addiction - it just sounds weird!

Try to detox from sugar and good luck! - 4/9/2013 7:23:37 PM

Food addiction is 100% real, the area of the brain (Hippocampus) is effected in people who have a food addiction. In fact, certain stresses can cause this as well. It is not about will power as emotional stress can trigger food addiction or sugar addiction. A Filmmaker has been reversing food addiction with a specialized diet created just for food addictions like sugar

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- 3/12/2013 9:55:21 AM

I have been looking for something to help me. I don't know if this would work. I am going to try and cut 1 sweet thing out of my diet. I feel that would be much easier in the big picture. - 1/22/2013 2:22:59 PM

this plan is too drastic for me, but I have started cutting my portions of sweets and limiting to one sweet food per day. I will then reduce to 6 days a week, then 5, then 4 etc. For some people this works better. I already don't drink soda or juice. - 1/17/2013 8:30:34 AM

Not only is it bad for us, sugar is killing the people who harvest it. it might help to think of the health of others as well as your own. That makes me more motivated to avoid it, or at least limit it. http://www.bbc.co
.uk/news/maga
zine-16007129 - 12/17/2012 8:38:03 AM

I got those supplements as well betsy and they have curbed my cravings as well. My appetite is not the same any more THAT IS A GOOD THING as i constantly grazed on the bad stuff. Dont graze and dont feel the need to eat chocolate and sugar filled snack like before. Losing weight and feeling healthy for a change. More energy as well which is a BONUS. - 12/2/2012 10:30:12 AM

Never mind. Just answered my own question.
- 10/11/2012 12:21:14 PM

Dumb question, but I am addicted to milk. I drink large glasses of it every night. Could the lactose in milk feed a sugar addiction? - 10/11/2012 12:20:29 PM

It's step three that is my downfall. No matter how long I distract myself the craving never goes away and always wins. I've been battling it out for years, yo-yo dieting because yes I lose the weight, but then I can't maintain because that addiction comes back. I did have found the will power needed to get off sugar for good. And it's in a bottle! I'm not kidding, I take this product every day for not much more than the cost of a coffee and muffin a day nad keeps me off the sugar. I've lost 15 pounds since July and my energy is really good. It's called http://bit.ly/rea
lw-8 Good luck and do whatever it takes to get off sugar because diabetes and heart disease are very unpleasant. - 10/2/2012 8:25:43 PM

I'm def. a sugar addict. I have been on a really bad binge lately and I can't seem to stop! It's crazy just how much sugar I can eat and it doesn't make me sick. Not at all. I don't understand it, but I wish I were "normal" and would get an upset stomach - then maybe I would stop. And yes, the methods outlined in this article are all the things that I already know. I think that sugar addiction is just like alcohol addiction - it's going to be a life-long struggle. However, sugar is in so many more places than alcohol. You have to eat everyday. It's a choice as to whether your meal contains sugar or not. You can eat 10 candy bars and still function. However, you can't drink 10 beers and still function. It's a truly secretive addiction.

In the past I have been able to go "cold turkey", but one little taste and that was what started the downward spiral again. - 9/26/2012 2:56:45 PM

Does anyone know: IF you're willing to read labels...what would be a "good" # as far as Sugar intake. When Mr. Sweet Tooth shows up, I'm trying healthy, sweet alternatives- like, say a vanilla protein shake to not only let my tastebuds get some sweetness, but to get me full (hopefully). This one is a Special K and has 18g of sugar. So i know even in fruit, veggie juice, etc, there are going to be sugar grams. I know my Mom recently got diagnosed w/ Sugar Diabetes & naturally reads labels now. I guess I'm just wondering what an average person's sugar intake should be not only to be healthy, but also to promote weight loss.......???? - 9/24/2012 4:38:27 PM

Its a drug. I have been on this roller coaster most if not all my life. I have abstained for long periods of time, felt very saintly and well you know what happens next. I still have visions of me as a very young child eating chocolate cake and feeling happy. Lets face it, sugar is substance that makes many of use feel happy. I have also come to realize for me that perhaps sugar is my "anti-depressant"
. One hit and the blues are gone. And I also realize that breaking the happy habit is like coming off, tobacco, crack or any other hard core addiction. And once off, you are never and I repeat never not a addict you are just a abstaining addict. The moment you think you can go back for just a taste, its over. Even though the article says you can consume in "moderation" for true sugar addicts, there is not never a moderate consumption. Would you tell an alcoholic to drink moderately..... The article makes some good points but I don't think it is really realistic for hardcore consumers of the "white stuff". - 9/24/2012 10:54:50 AM

Week 4 - Moderation?
I find that one slip up or lapse will cause the whole sugar craving all over again. For me, avoidance (not moderation) is key. After two weeks of vigilence, the cravings will start to go away and I won't be thinking about it as often. - 9/23/2012 7:31:39 PM