Sugar Addiction

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MollyConnor

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Yesterday on chat, the users were talking about addiction and how they overcame it in their lives. We also had some people pull up Bible verses that pertained to it.

I have a problem. I am really addicted to sugar. I have sweets everyday...and I'm not talking about apples. I usually have some chocolate or gummy worms. I shop like a 5 year old when it comes to sweets. I really hate it. I spend money on it when I really don't want to, but I feel like I have to. I have had some weight gain from it as well and I know it can eventually lead to diabetes. My dad has diabetes and it really scares me. I feel like a sugar junkie. I don't feel any different from someone who is addicted to alcohol or coke...except when it comes to food we condone it a little more as a society.

I have tried doing a Keto (low carb) diet and I usually do good and then I mess up and all hell breaks loose. With just one cookie or piece of candy, I go nuts and crave it like crazy until I binge.

That's another thing, I binge on sweets often.

Please help. I don't know what to do with this anymore. It's gotten to the point where sometimes I don't even eat food and just eat sweets.

How did you get rid of your addictions, if you had any? I know there are many kinds of addictions. If you don't feel comfortable saying, you could just PM me or pray for me. I would appreciate it. Thanks!
 
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heartofdavid

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OK,in the first place you are probably consuming High fructose corn syrup. The vid I posted says "sugar" but I was surprised they didn't get to the HFCS.
Our food supply is compromised. Our brains are responding in a negative way. Psssst,they want us addicted.


[video=youtube;HHI-7I9kD5k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHI-7I9kD5k[/video]
 
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heartofdavid

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[video=youtube;j3sixYr7onw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3sixYr7onw[/video]
 
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Hi Molly.

For myself, I found that Ice Breakers is a good alternative.

 
JosephsDreams

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Make it a spiritual issue and cut out all processed foods.
 
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My grandmother always told me it takes 21 days to build a habit and 21 days to end one.

Note where you are obtaining the sweets, if you're picking them up throughout the day try leaving your debit card at home or in the car. If it's when you're grocery shopping, try making a shopping list and avoid browsing.

Switch to natural sugars found in fruit, if you get a craving eat a banana or an apple. Try dried fruit and banana chips, they aren't the healthiest foods in the world but much better than cookies! Also, honey is sweet but is awfully good for you. Maybe fix yourself some tea with honey. Bananas, peanut butter, and honey are three things that go well together.

See if you can limit deserts to special events. Don't buy ice cream and cookies for the house, go to a bakery, a creamery, or a candy shop for a single serving and ideally no more than once a week.

It can be difficult, but you can do this!
 
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renewed_hope

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MollyConnor said:
Yesterday on chat, the users were talking about addiction and how they overcame it in their lives. We also had some people pull up Bible verses that pertained to it.

I have a problem. I am really addicted to sugar. I have sweets everyday...and I'm not talking about apples. I usually have some chocolate or gummy worms. I shop like a 5 year old when it comes to sweets. I really hate it. I spend money on it when I really don't want to, but I feel like I have to. I have had some weight gain from it as well and I know it can eventually lead to diabetes. My dad has diabetes and it really scares me. I feel like a sugar junkie. I don't feel any different from someone who is addicted to alcohol or coke...except when it comes to food we condone it a little more as a society.

I have tried doing a Keto (low carb) diet and I usually do good and then I mess up and all hell breaks loose. With just one cookie or piece of candy, I go nuts and crave it like crazy until I binge.

That's another thing, I binge on sweets often.

Please help. I don't know what to do with this anymore. It's gotten to the point where sometimes I don't even eat food and just eat sweets.

How did you get rid of your addictions, if you had any? I know there are many kinds of addictions. If you don't feel comfortable saying, you could just PM me or pray for me. I would appreciate it. Thanks!
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So this must be why you are a sweet person ;)
 
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However you do it, DO IT!

Sugar is probably the closest thing to a deadly poison we can put in our bodies. It WILL eventually shorten, and possibly END your life.... after it wreaks havoc with most of your internal systems.
 
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I've quit both caffeine and sugar before. Gave me anxiety for weeks. I, like you, can have a "need" for it I found the first step was not buying it. Can't eat what you don't have.
This works well at home, but being out it's much more difficult.
I have also started back up. My biggest issue is i live with people that keep buying things. I want to quit again, but people keep buying things =P
 
cinder

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MollyConnor said:
Yesterday on chat, the users were talking about addiction and how they overcame it in their lives. We also had some people pull up Bible verses that pertained to it.

I have a problem. I am really addicted to sugar. I have sweets everyday...and I'm not talking about apples. I usually have some chocolate or gummy worms. I shop like a 5 year old when it comes to sweets. I really hate it. I spend money on it when I really don't want to, but I feel like I have to. I have had some weight gain from it as well and I know it can eventually lead to diabetes. My dad has diabetes and it really scares me. I feel like a sugar junkie. I don't feel any different from someone who is addicted to alcohol or coke...except when it comes to food we condone it a little more as a society.

I have tried doing a Keto (low carb) diet and I usually do good and then I mess up and all hell breaks loose. With just one cookie or piece of candy, I go nuts and crave it like crazy until I binge.

That's another thing, I binge on sweets often.

Please help. I don't know what to do with this anymore. It's gotten to the point where sometimes I don't even eat food and just eat sweets.

How did you get rid of your addictions, if you had any? I know there are many kinds of addictions. If you don't feel comfortable saying, you could just PM me or pray for me. I would appreciate it. Thanks!
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This is the best resource I know of as far as information on sugar addiction goes (if you want to watch the whole course you'll have to sign up for the membership, but the first month is free (and you can cancel after that)).
http://www.dietdoctor.com/first-part-of-our-sugar-addiction-video-course-free-for-all

Other than that I think it comes down to having people in your life who are supportive and who you let hold you accountable for what you eat. I had pretty good success with low carb when I was overseas and part of the success was that there were several people who paid attention and kept asking how much I'd lost. Been halfheartedly trying to get back on low carb (summer without ice cream seems like christmas without presents to me) so I'm more than willing to be a food buddy if that helps. Other than that, my best success comes from not letting stuff in my house and hating to interrupt my time at home to go out and get something (and doing meal planning so there's almost always good food available to eat, because when you're tired after a long day, it's too easy to reach for the processed heat and eat stuff in a box).
 
zeroturbulence

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MollyConnor said:
Yesterday on chat, the users were talking about addiction and how they overcame it in their lives. We also had some people pull up Bible verses that pertained to it.

I have a problem. I am really addicted to sugar. I have sweets everyday...and I'm not talking about apples. I usually have some chocolate or gummy worms. I shop like a 5 year old when it comes to sweets. I really hate it. I spend money on it when I really don't want to, but I feel like I have to. I have had some weight gain from it as well and I know it can eventually lead to diabetes. My dad has diabetes and it really scares me. I feel like a sugar junkie. I don't feel any different from someone who is addicted to alcohol or coke...except when it comes to food we condone it a little more as a society.

I have tried doing a Keto (low carb) diet and I usually do good and then I mess up and all hell breaks loose. With just one cookie or piece of candy, I go nuts and crave it like crazy until I binge.

That's another thing, I binge on sweets often.

Please help. I don't know what to do with this anymore. It's gotten to the point where sometimes I don't even eat food and just eat sweets.

How did you get rid of your addictions, if you had any? I know there are many kinds of addictions. If you don't feel comfortable saying, you could just PM me or pray for me. I would appreciate it. Thanks!
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THis is weird because i was just listening to a talk by a doctor and he said to substitute sugary foods with non-sugar-added foods. An example would be substituting organic peanut butter for brand-name peanut butter (the brand name ones add sugar). He did a study with children who were on a high-sugar diet and had fatty-liver disease (which is the basis for things like type 2 diabetes). They substituted the children's sugary snacks and stuff with sweet, but no-added sugar items. One example was whole wheat bagel instead of white bread. Another was the peanut butter. ANd they kept the total amount of calories the same, so they could rule out weight loss if they got positive results. At the end of the 9 weeks the children had 22% less liver fat. They were surprised that it was that effective.
 
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renewed_hope

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Instead of going for sweets that are loaded with processed sugars like gummy candy, cookies, and many other foods. How about going for natural sugars so your sweet tooth can be satisfied? See, I love berries, so I put some in a bowl and treat myself. It's healthy and you don't have to worry about the guilt later on :)
 
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You just have to make a decision, it is that simple. Make the decision, in assertion and faith.
 
zeroturbulence

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zeroturbulence said:
THis is weird because i was just listening to a talk by a doctor and he said to substitute sugary foods with non-sugar-added foods. An example would be substituting organic peanut butter for brand-name peanut butter (the brand name ones add sugar). He did a study with children who were on a high-sugar diet and had fatty-liver disease (which is the basis for things like type 2 diabetes). They substituted the children's sugary snacks and stuff with sweet, but no-added sugar items. One example was whole wheat bagel instead of white bread. Another was the peanut butter. ANd they kept the total amount of calories the same, so they could rule out weight loss if they got positive results. At the end of the 9 weeks the children had 22% less liver fat. They were surprised that it was that effective.
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Correction: The study was only 9 DAYS, not 9 weeks.. which is amazing because the kids lost 22% of their liver fat.
 
zeroturbulence

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If anyone is interested, here is the talk from the doctor who did the study. The study is mentioned from 24 to 29 minute mark. Before that he talks a lot about the real cause of type 2 diabetes (and its not specifically obesity, but added sugar in the diet)..

(ignore the title, you'll understand why it's called that if you listen to the rest of his talk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agUSqmoFcs8
 
JosephsDreams

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This says it in a nutshell.
3 minute video

[video=youtube;4Oqkho-e-7Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Oqkho-e-7Y[/video]
 
JosephsDreams

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The human body physiology that God designed at the time of Eden is still the same.

I am stunned that some purple people eaters have in the past posted that our basic physiology has changed. As if God made a mistake when He initially designed and created us!

To be crystal clear, we are the same. It is our diets and environment that has changed.
 
Lynx

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One important thing that I have observed, if you tell yourself "I can't have ice cream, I can't have cake, I can't have donuts" you are going to have binge sessions of eating all those things you "can't" have.

I can do anything I want. I'm an adult, 39 years old, got my own job, my own money, if I wanted to buy out all the Laffy Taffy the store has I could do it. I could sit and eat it all in one sitting. I'm not going to because that would make me feel bad and diabetes would be my closest friend before too long.

When you focus on consequences it gets a lot easier to say no. I can eat a whole box of donuts if I want, but I don't want to because that leads to a headache and being generally cranky the rest of the day and further down the road probably to diabetes. It runs in my... no, diabetes doesn't run in my family, it walks through slowly, making friends with everybody along the way.

I remember a BC comic, a guy with a hangover is asking a doctor "What's the best way to prevent a hangover?" The doctor says, "A well remembered precedent."
 
Lynx

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Another thing, one that works for my uncle Fred, try a small bite of ice cream every once in a while. Uncle Fred's doctor had a really serious talk with him some time back so uncle Fred got really strict with his diet a few years ago. In fact he doesn't even take a loaf of my sourdough bread anymore. But once in a great while, if he's down here and I happen to be making a sandwich, he'll get a small bite of bread.

It seems if you cut yourself off from something completely it makes it really easy to binge on it every once in a while, but if you eat a spoonful of ice cream every now and then it's a lot easier to not eat a whole half-gallon tub.
 
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MollyConnor

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So today I started my Keto or Low carb diet. Really, I'm just trying to stay away from carbs. The doctor told me this is probably the best diet for me right now. It was the first day. So far so good. I just keep telling myself what Lynx said "I can have the cookie, but do I really want it and all the baggage it comes with? No, I do not."

There is hope at the end of the tunnel. It hasn't been an easy day, but it was easier than I thought it would be. I'll try to do this for a couple of months just to rid myself of the addiction. Your prayers are appreciated. Thanks to everyone who gave me advice on here too! ;)

I have done this diet before with great success by the way. But at the end of the summer (super stressed), I failed miserably and the addiction got so bad. Here's to hoping I can succeed again.
 
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