Sugar addiction

JW_2 · 2018-11-08T21:29:08+00:00

I quit it cold turkey and lost 20 pounds and 3 inches in about 2 months. I had to stop buying it because I couldn’t control myself when it was in the house. I would recommend throwing it all out, drinking nothing but water, and if you have a craving for candy drink water.

Random thoughts:

I would suggest keeping track of when you last had some sweets to make it a game to see how long you can go.

Fixing your diet also helps cravings go down.

Look at pictures of fat people who got fit and or hot girls - whichever motivates you more.

Look at how much you’re saving not buying this stuff.

Save it for special occasions (thanksgiving, Christmas, family dessert). You will be able to enjoy it so much more knowing how good of a job you’ve done.

Hope that helps. It’s a lot easier than I thought it would be once I got started. Good luck.

redpharma7789 · 2018-11-08T21:47:40+00:00

1) For treats, try incorporating some sweetness into your meals. Like adding fruits to salad, some sweet notes to sauces, etc. This really helps with settling your sweet tooth.

2) For soda, I strongly suggest you drink carbonated/sparkling water. Adding some lemon/lime/orange and mint to it gives it a really nice taste.

3) After you eat, drink something hot. This helps with digestion and also keeping you full. Most of the time, when you are hungry its because your sugar levels are changing because you are eating food. This is normal, you just need to control yourself. Sipping on a hot coffee / tea afterwards really helps.

I find it’s easier to get off soda than it is sweets in general. Right now, I try to keep dessert to one meal a day. Usually that’s my post workout out.

[deleted] · 2018-11-09T03:21:49+00:00

Society makes this problem more of a problem then what it is, putting it on a pedestal.

Really the answer is stop eating sugar. If you can control your mouth, you can keep it closed if a sugar molecule happens to try and open it. If you can control your mouth then congrats, you can stop eating sugar.

SeriousAccount0 · 2018-11-08T22:20:11+00:00

I switched to a keto diet (actually, keto-carnivore) and that reduced my sugar cravings to basically zero. Before that, I would see chocolate and eat it...haven't touched any candy in over two months at this point and the only chocolate I eat is 92% dark chocolate which I eat 90g of each morning for the magnesium.

uniqueusername238232 · 2018-11-08T23:58:42+00:00

I dropped all sweets when I started lifting. I drink diet coke whenever I get a craving, the autistic screeching about aspartame notwithstanding. It makes me bloated by does not seem to interfere with the gains (tried one month without any, no difference). Now slowly phasing off the diet soda as well.

BrutalMan420 · 2018-11-09T00:39:19+00:00

cold turkey is the best way. only drink water and milk, soda chocolate and ice cream is for fucking babies.

if you can go a week without sugar then youre good. for me i just kept telling myself that your gut will crave what you feed it. feed a lot of sugar and it always wants more sugar. stop feeding it sugar, feed it clean greens and meat and it will eventually start craving healthy shit and sugar will be a distant memory.

flow2high · 2018-11-09T08:38:10+00:00

Move your Body regularly x-times per week, for me it has reduced the sugar-urge drastically. Just walk a couple of minutes is enough to have effects.

TheStumblingWolf · 2018-11-09T09:07:16+00:00

A couple of years ago I went cold turkey for 7 months (no idea how) just as an experiment. I lost 1kg per month with no diet change. More importantly though, I started looking at candy in the super market with indifference. This was after a couple of months. So self discipline, as I see it, is really the only way.

W_O_M_B_A_T · 2018-11-09T12:22:30+00:00

Use Splenda/sucralose.

Shoregrey · 2018-11-09T01:14:21+00:00

I drink diet soda and I don't buy any of the "science" that says it's bad for you. I otherwise consume no sugar save for what occurs naturally in the foods I eat.

The problem with most people who drink diet soda is the perception that drinking diet soda somehow rationalizes and normalizes their otherwise atrocious diet. Almost all of the studies done on diet soda(and Aspartame) were done with subjects who drank diet soda as a surrogate for a healthy diet.

Also, before you cancer retards attack me, there was that one study in 1985 that showed a slight elevation of the mutagenic property in aspartame in certain lab rats and at incredicly high does(more than any human would or could ever consume reasonably). This study, while never having been debunked, has also never been corroborated or reproduced. Also, a %50,000 dose of ANYTHING is going to cause problems.

Title	Sugar addiction
Author	graszitrone
Upvotes	3
Comments	13
Date	November 8, 2018 9:18 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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