fitnessluvr
Cathlete
I wake up everyday thinking that I will try and break my sugar habit and everyday I dont. Anyone else struggle with this and overcome it?
Ok...I am addicted to sugar
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delfin
Cathlete
Yes, I struggle with this. Once I start eating sugar, I don't want to stop. Especially if I'm feeling blue. So here's what I've been doing: Friday and Saturday "cheat days". I can go without sugar if I can say to myself, "Only two more days until Friday," etc. This seems to be working out for me pretty well. It allows me to just push the craving aside, and get on with my life.
fitnessluvr
Cathlete
I just need something sweet after lunch and dinner, sometimes in the afternoon. I dont sit down with a whole bag of cookies, I just have a cookie or two, or marshmellows, or a peice of chocolate. Something small, but it is just the need to have something.
I dont feel like I need to loose weight, I am happy where I am but I would like my tummy to be a little tighter. I think my tummy consists of my cookies, marshmellows and chocolate.
I dont feel like I need to loose weight, I am happy where I am but I would like my tummy to be a little tighter. I think my tummy consists of my cookies, marshmellows and chocolate.
melanalyus
Cathlete
Yes! But I found out it was a little more than that when a tough spot moved me to start an antidepressant. Since beginning my antidepressant, I no longer crave sugar (not even chocolate). I must have been self medicating,...
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~Melanie~
Jadon born 11/23/05
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Jory born 4/9/94
I'm the same way, and decided to kick my habit once and for all, cold turkey. I don't allow myself ANY sugar, not even one Hershey's Kiss, because I know that one will lead to 20. The funny thing is, the longer you go without it, the more you don't crave it! It's been over a month for me now and I'm still doing great.
dreamyjeanie
Cathlete
I'm right there with you. I thought I would use Lent as a perfect time to be successful and I have totally failed. Its like the more I think about not eating sweats, the more I crave them. Once I cave, then I can't stop at just one piece or just one cookie. I just feel like giving up on trying. Maybe that way I won't think about it so much. I have convinced myself to stop buying the sweats, but unfortunately I am surround by them at work.
Jean
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tneah
Cathlete
I have a wicked sweet tooth. I am on a strict diet right now, but allow myself to have a little "sweet treat" on the side...shhh don't tell my trainer. And I mean little, not like a whole bag of something, I jsut need a taste and then I move on.
Oh, there are days that I could power through a bag of M&M's or something, oh and I love ice cream...but I am pretty disciplined about it. I enjoy my sugar in moderation I guess. I could never get rid of it completely, that doesn't work for me, I tried it.
And I mean little, not like a whole bag of something, I jsut need a taste and then I move on.Oh, there are days that I could power through a bag of M&M's or something, oh and I love ice cream...but I am pretty disciplined about it. I enjoy my sugar in moderation I guess. I could never get rid of it completely, that doesn't work for me, I tried it.
Beavs
Cathlete
I just don't comprehend why people work so hard and think they can't enjoy something in moderation. I also keep hearing how eating is 80% and it is so hard blah blah blah..... It's like people are looking for bragging rights about enjoying their food the least. I was stunned to see many, many very fit women ate fairly normal of the Cathe RT---I thought I'd be the outcast from sipping my sinful wine but alas I was in good company.
I understand the need to address an addiction when you find yourself passed out on the floor naked surrounded by cookie crumbs and Eliot Spitzer's boxer shorts. I don't understand the big deal about ladies who work as hard as you do enjoying a little treat after dinner. Get real people!! It won't be your diet that kills you. It will acting like nitwits about food that will kill you with stress.
I understand the need to address an addiction when you find yourself passed out on the floor naked surrounded by cookie crumbs and Eliot Spitzer's boxer shorts. I don't understand the big deal about ladies who work as hard as you do enjoying a little treat after dinner. Get real people!! It won't be your diet that kills you. It will acting like nitwits about food that will kill you with stress.
gidget1978
Cathlete
Im with the sugar addicts on the this one! When I watch my sugar intake, i can usually last till supper time without craving anything. But when I don't watch it, I can be picking at sweets allll day long and I can only imagine how many cals i must be eating. I have been pretty good over the last week and in a short time I noticed a difference, the bloat was gone!
But Im also with Beavs, we workout so hard....we should be able to have a treat every now and then, right? So even last week, while being good, I will have something small once a day. If I tell myself I can't have something...Im 10 times worse!
Lori
But Im also with Beavs, we workout so hard....we should be able to have a treat every now and then, right? So even last week, while being good, I will have something small once a day. If I tell myself I can't have something...Im 10 times worse!
Lori
Fit_mommy
Cathlete
>I just don't comprehend why people work so hard and think
>they can't enjoy something in moderation. I also keep hearing
>how eating is 80% and it is so hard blah blah blah..... It's
>like people are looking for bragging rights about enjoying
>their food the least. I was stunned to see many, many very
>fit women ate fairly normal of the Cathe RT---I thought I'd be
>the outcast from sipping my sinful wine but alas I was in good
>company.
>
>I understand the need to address an addiction when you find
>yourself passed out on the floor naked surrounded by cookie
>crumbs and Eliot Spitzer's boxer shorts. I don't understand
>the big deal about ladies who work as hard as you do enjoying
>a little treat after dinner. Get real people!! It won't be
>your diet that kills you. It will acting like nitwits about
>food that will kill you with stress.
I agree, Beavs. I watch what I eat MOST of the time but I certainly allow myself "treats" and cheat meals. I would be miserable and give it all up if I didn't. In other words, I'd GAIN weight if I STOPPED eating the sugar all together! It's just not worth it. It's not about giving up every sugary, fattening or high sodium food you love. It's about LIMITING it. Eating good 80% of the time leaves lotsa room for having the good stuff, you know! :9
>they can't enjoy something in moderation. I also keep hearing
>how eating is 80% and it is so hard blah blah blah..... It's
>like people are looking for bragging rights about enjoying
>their food the least. I was stunned to see many, many very
>fit women ate fairly normal of the Cathe RT---I thought I'd be
>the outcast from sipping my sinful wine but alas I was in good
>company.
>
>I understand the need to address an addiction when you find
>yourself passed out on the floor naked surrounded by cookie
>crumbs and Eliot Spitzer's boxer shorts. I don't understand
>the big deal about ladies who work as hard as you do enjoying
>a little treat after dinner. Get real people!! It won't be
>your diet that kills you. It will acting like nitwits about
>food that will kill you with stress.
I agree, Beavs. I watch what I eat MOST of the time but I certainly allow myself "treats" and cheat meals. I would be miserable and give it all up if I didn't. In other words, I'd GAIN weight if I STOPPED eating the sugar all together! It's just not worth it. It's not about giving up every sugary, fattening or high sodium food you love. It's about LIMITING it. Eating good 80% of the time leaves lotsa room for having the good stuff, you know! :9
lioness
Cathlete
I'm in agreement with everyone here. I'm Switzerland!! I was raised to have sweets after lunch and dinner and when I was first losing weight I allowed myself a small sweet after dinner. It has changed over the years - 1 fat free strawberry pop tart, blow pop sucker, 3 York Peppermint patties, etc.
I understood the working out hard theory and knew that one little sweet at the end of the day was NOT going to kill me or cause me a pound of fat. However, earlier this year I found that one sweet treat was adding up to 2, 3, 10 without even realizing it. Then I was allowing myself to have 2, 3, 4 pieces of candy at lunch and it was getting out of control. I went sweet free for 8 days before I caved (ok..it was my parent's anniversary and I had a piece of cake). Since then, I have not gone back to my bad ways. I realized that I don't need the sweets and sometimes I don't even think about it. I guess really being strict with myself helped to cure the craving (for now). Being strict helped me to be more aware of what I was eating.
I understood the working out hard theory and knew that one little sweet at the end of the day was NOT going to kill me or cause me a pound of fat. However, earlier this year I found that one sweet treat was adding up to 2, 3, 10 without even realizing it. Then I was allowing myself to have 2, 3, 4 pieces of candy at lunch and it was getting out of control. I went sweet free for 8 days before I caved (ok..it was my parent's anniversary and I had a piece of cake). Since then, I have not gone back to my bad ways. I realized that I don't need the sweets and sometimes I don't even think about it. I guess really being strict with myself helped to cure the craving (for now). Being strict helped me to be more aware of what I was eating.
nancy324
Cathlete
>I understand the need to address an addiction when you find
>yourself passed out on the floor naked surrounded by cookie
>crumbs and Eliot Spitzer's boxer shorts.
Oh, Beavs, you got me again! Coffee just squirted out of my nose. Thank you for the laugh in the middle of a week from You-Know-Where. :7
Just for the record though, some of us can't do just a "little" treat. I know when I open the half gallon of ice cream, I have a choice: put the lid back on NOW or eat the whole half gallon. I could more easily climb Mt. Everest than do that thing they call "moderation". I'm just not wired for it. I think that's what some people refer to when they say they're "addicted" to sugar. I have found that in general, those of you who can eat two cookies after dinner with a cup of tea generally do not understand those of us who MUST eat the whole bag (with or without the boxer shorts).
>yourself passed out on the floor naked surrounded by cookie
>crumbs and Eliot Spitzer's boxer shorts.
Oh, Beavs, you got me again! Coffee just squirted out of my nose. Thank you for the laugh in the middle of a week from You-Know-Where. :7
Just for the record though, some of us can't do just a "little" treat. I know when I open the half gallon of ice cream, I have a choice: put the lid back on NOW or eat the whole half gallon. I could more easily climb Mt. Everest than do that thing they call "moderation". I'm just not wired for it. I think that's what some people refer to when they say they're "addicted" to sugar. I have found that in general, those of you who can eat two cookies after dinner with a cup of tea generally do not understand those of us who MUST eat the whole bag (with or without the boxer shorts).
pink_fortitude
Banned
"I just don't comprehend why people work so hard and think they can't enjoy something in moderation. I also keep hearing how eating is 80% and it is so hard blah blah blah..... It's like people are looking for bragging rights about enjoying their food the least."
It would be nice to enjoy things in moderation, Beavs, but sugar is just not one of those things for some people - just like how some people can't have a drink w/o having to get drunk. It would be nice to be able to eat just 2 cookies and stop there, but for some it ends up becoming the entire box and then some and that is a problem. I have to cut it out of my diet completely or it will control me. It feels like I am a drug addict because I will search my cabinets looking for something sweet over and over again even when I know there is nothing there - that is what makes me feel like a nitwit.
Missy
It would be nice to enjoy things in moderation, Beavs, but sugar is just not one of those things for some people - just like how some people can't have a drink w/o having to get drunk. It would be nice to be able to eat just 2 cookies and stop there, but for some it ends up becoming the entire box and then some and that is a problem. I have to cut it out of my diet completely or it will control me. It feels like I am a drug addict because I will search my cabinets looking for something sweet over and over again even when I know there is nothing there - that is what makes me feel like a nitwit.
Missy
Beavs
Cathlete
But my point Missy is that there are many out there who can enjoy a sweet treat in moderation---this does not make one an addict. Just as enjoying a glass on wine occasionally does not make one a drunk. I understand the concept of addiction and can appreciate that some, such as the devious Nancy, can't keep the pint of ice cream in the house. I just don't understand beating yourself up over enjoying the less than perfect foods in moderation (Eliot Spitzer had a problem with moderation so he should probably skip it). I used to work with a group of nuns and even they enjoy margaritas once in a while }(
Beavs, I totally see your point. There seems to be a fair number of "all or nothing" posts about food and other things, not just this thread in particular...people beating themselves up over eating a dessert or slice of pizza...or *gasp* going on vacation an NOT working out for a week!
Moderation can be learned and loved. At some point, we all decided that would push ourselves to workout - learn to like cardio that we hated at one time, learn to like doing the pushups that we despised at one time. The same thing can be done with enjoying certain foods in moderation. It just takes a little time for it to become regular behavior.
The nuns comment reminded me of this: I grew up Catholic and several of my male friends were altar boys relayed this story. At one church I attended, the priest (who was a cool guy) used to put Wild Turkey in the chalice at mass instead of wine...apparently he wasn't keen on the altar wine.
Moderation can be learned and loved. At some point, we all decided that would push ourselves to workout - learn to like cardio that we hated at one time, learn to like doing the pushups that we despised at one time. The same thing can be done with enjoying certain foods in moderation. It just takes a little time for it to become regular behavior.
The nuns comment reminded me of this: I grew up Catholic and several of my male friends were altar boys relayed this story. At one church I attended, the priest (who was a cool guy) used to put Wild Turkey in the chalice at mass instead of wine...apparently he wasn't keen on the altar wine.