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Cranberry juice I dilute with water 50/50. It is too sweet for me ...
Cranberry juice I dilute with water 50/50. It is too sweet for me ...
I am normally fine with people eating sweets/cake etc around me, I will sit there and say no no no...
But.. in the instance I do have a try... something clicks and I just cant stop eating until whatever it is is all gone, cake, chocolate... i wil eat until i feel sick..
I never had this problem until i started the lean diet, it has changed me, I now am a major sweet tooth and have to ask people to stop me if i get started..
Its only till ive finished that block of chocolate etc that i seem to wake up and think WTF just happen, that wasnt me.
Luckily seeing the results from cutting/dieting gives me enough motivation and will power to say NO 99.9% of occasions, but cheat meals etc.. no control.
Try adding chromium piccolinate to your diet. It will help deal with sugar cravings and it acts as an insulin mimicker so it will help with weight management.
ljk23 - Yep this sounds soooo familiar! I actually joined this forum right after my last "session" where i had a piece of cake and then Wham - i needed more... (while also thinking to myself - i've already ruined my day which is soo bad i know). What do i do next? - Go to the supermarket to buy chocolate...but i dont buy one bar - oh no! I buy 3...because i know to be satisfied, i have to start feeling sick and one bar just wont cut it. Its such a bad habit i've gotten into.
Its interesting that you say it only started happening when you got into the lean diet. I can't remember if i was like when i was younger!
take2 - i have taken chromium in the past - it didnt seem to help all that much so i stopped. It has been a while though so i could try again as i have made other changes to my diet and training which may impact its effects...
What dose did you use? I've used it on and off for some years because of Type 2 Diabetes issues and the dose needs to be significantly higher than recommended, but cycled.Originally Posted by MeLi
x2! Also peanut butter with a little cottage cheese on corn cakes - the cottage cheese adds a bit more 'naughty' to it whilst actually adding good proteins!
Also have you tried fruit teas? they have a sweet-type taste without being sweet, which can help wean you off the need for sugar.
"I can't remember if I'm the good twin or the evil one..."
I had another episode last night!!
Being more aware of what my body and mind were doing though - i was able to "asses" what was happening. I'm feeling like a bit of a freak at the moment.
I went to dinner with a friend (i had a lamb salad) and afterward we went to watch a comedy show. He bought a box of maltesers. I didnt feel like chocolate at the time nor was i craving it. He kept offering them to me and after i said no about 4 times i took one. When i did this i thought there is no harm in having one. I WAS WRONG!
I ended up having a handful, but the thing was, i kept drifting into thought and would stop listening to the show (which was very interesting and funny) simply to think about what i would eat when i got home! I wanted a macca's chocolate sundae, and chocolate bars and every kind of sugary thing i could think of. I kept reminding myself of the promise i'd made to not touch any sugar monday to saturday but this just did not matter. All i wanted was something chocolaty. Even on the drive home while talking to my friend i was thinking about chocolate. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME!! ? Luckily i got home and called my bf straight away so to make sure the supermarket below my apartment closed and i could not go downstairs to buy something. I then had to tell myself that the 5 or 6 maltesers i had, have not ruined my training for the week and that i shouldn't now punish myself by filling my body with copious amounts of crap (this bit was really hard).
Wow. I am addicted. Sugar is my drug.
Chocoholics anonymous?
same here..
last night i said id try one grain wave chip .... but of course that then led to the packet being finished, then onto the chocolate, then the anzac cookies , then the maple covered cashews...
Woke up this morning and smashed 45mins of HIIT training... just so i could justify that..
I understand u completely... its fukd.
I use to be exactly like that Meli :) so I know what you are going through. It is a terrible unknown addiction but once you understand it you will be free :)
We need a fucked up disordered eating thread lol.
I am completely the same. I can be going about my day merrily and my friend will call and say 'Ive trained today so reckon i can get chocolate/take away?' GO the fuck AWAY says I but too late. The seed has been planted.
Meli, have you tried the chocolate flavoured protien powder trick?
I'm sure the issue isn't a want for a sugar hit, the issue is chocolates taste.
This will rid you of this problem - mark my words!
At that, you will get in no fat or carbs. Unless you have it with a little skim milk.
You'll see. Try it. I'm just about 100% sure your problem will be solved - well, no where near to the extent it is now.
You'll always crave sugar when deprived of it for so long, but this doesn't sound like the body going nuts for a quick sugar spike, this is the want for chocolates taste.
If your going to have some type of sugar, eat some quality chocolate, none of that shit carbury!
I can't believe you could call our home grown Cadbury shit....I am insulted to be Australian......well not really, but am a Cadbury fan for life I think :)
But in all seriousness Meli, I also know what you are going through with Binging on sugar.....I was where you were 12 months ago. I have tried all the tricks everyone has been mentioning and on occasion they all work. But what has worked best of me is time, discipline and forgiveness.
Forgive yourself if you have a 'bad day' and just get back on with your plan the next/after your binge. Overtime you will find that your cravings will get less and you will be able to control them by just having one little chocolate or small piece of cake and not the whole thing. It may not seem like it now, but give yourself time and don't ever forget what you want and you can get there.
But the most important part is to not be too hard on yourself, as then you only focus on what you are doing wrong and not what you are doing right. Once I learned to forgive myself for the occasional lapse, I started to have less of them and be able to control them better.
Good luck.....I'm sure if you want it you will get there
nic
The need for sugar, as in craving it to feel good, is one of many phenomenal signs our body uses to communicate with us by telling us it's in need of some real attention. I don't wish to take over this thread by writing a long comment, so it would suffice to say that a craving for sugar is a flashing red warning light that our serotonin is running on low. Sugar is a band aid solution but not the cure to a more fundamental type of chemical imbalance. I'll leave it here...
Fadi.
If I have a craving for something sweet, a piece of licorice seems to satisfy. I also read online that it helps in weight control as it helps to maintain stomach acid levels and it can be used as an anti-inflammatory, anti-allergenic for respiratory disease, tonic for fever & to treat stomach ulcers!
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