bmccartney
Cathlete
"Hi, my name is Bethany, and I'm addicted to sugar." I need to eat at least every two hours in order to avoid my blood sugar crashing, and most of my food choices are proteins or fibers to keep things on an even keel. My problem is, if I don't have some form of refined sugar each day, I get BAD headaches, I'm crabby, shakey...it's a mess. I cut out all of the cookies, cake, chocolate out of my diet for about 4 weeks awhile back, thinking I just needed to cleanse my system and then I wouldn't crave those things anymore. It didn't work. The daily headaches were nearly disabling, and I'd DREAM about stuffing my face with chocolate cake and ice cream almost every night (seriously). So fruit as a dessert doesn't work - I still get the withdrawl symtoms. I've had my blood sugar tested repeatedly; no problem except the hypoglycemia if I don't eat often enough.
Was the 4 weeks just not enough time? Are there other ways to "detox" myself without going through the awful withdrawl period? I don't have caffiene at all (except chocolate, which may be a small handul of M&Ms a few times/week), but I think it feels similar to drinking 10 cups of coffee per day to suddenly going cold turkey.
Ideally I'd like to be able to "get off the sugar." Any advice?
Bethany
Was the 4 weeks just not enough time? Are there other ways to "detox" myself without going through the awful withdrawl period? I don't have caffiene at all (except chocolate, which may be a small handul of M&Ms a few times/week), but I think it feels similar to drinking 10 cups of coffee per day to suddenly going cold turkey.
Ideally I'd like to be able to "get off the sugar." Any advice?
Bethany