[A Dear]

My name is Angela and I am a sugarholic!! I can admit it now! I have always known sugar is bad but never realized there is a true addiction.
I have been to Doctors who had no clue what is wrong or causing all my symptoms. I was waking up in the middle of the night wide awake and couldn't go back to sleep. I felt tired, foggy, grumpy and depressed for days. I was trying to figure it out myself and googled something about waking up in the middle of the night and the first website talked about "sugar addiction" and how sugar causes that to happen. I did have birthday cake the evening before so it made so much sense to me. I had no idea and all my other symptons can be directly related to sugar too. I was eating and drinking it all day long and I think as I got older my body just can't handle it. Every thing I have researched says if you are going to eliminate a bad habit you must replace it with a good habit so I found this forum and want to use reading it to be my new good habit. Plus get inspiration and ideas from others who understand.
I am on day 3 with no sugar, at least no added sugar and hope I can cut it out all together. I am still trying to figure out how to eliminate sugar from my diet since sugar is in everything!
I am looking forward to reading everyones posts to get ideas and get more information as I continue on this new life changing journey!!

[kelly315]

I have the same problem- and I'm sorry to say, that for me, it's going to kind of be like a recovering alcoholic with alcohol for the foreseeable future- meaning I'm just going to have to avoid it like crazy, or it will take control of me.

I had a nibble of my bf's candy bar the other day- barely enough to taste- and I went totally beserk for the next few days. I had the feeling like I "needed" something sweet, and wouldn't be able to calm down until I got it. This resulted in eating 1000 calories worth of animal crackers, then having to exercise for several hours the next day to make up for it. Not worth it.

So, with the exception of that experience, I've been sugar free for the last month. I didn't start eating fruit until a few weeks in, and even now I won't eat more than 1-2 pieces per day.

I found that what helped me was finding low calorie savory foods that I enjoy, and sticking exclusively to those savory foods.

You can do it, and if you're anything like me, then it will serve you better to stay totally away from sugar as if it's heroine. Can't trust a junkie with one hit, right? You see a lot of dieters who talk about how they work sweets in, but not everyone can do that. I'm a perfect example.