I am in desperate need of help against the ENEMY (sugar)!!!!  I try every day to be sugar free, but I always give in.  I need some words of wisdom please. I’m afraid that I’ll become diabetic at the rate I’m going if I don’t stop soon.

Thanks a million,
Barb

Hello Barb, and others.  We have to do this.  I know I do.  I like the excercise he put out.  I have started logging my food.  Big suggestion:  READ THIS BOOK:  SUGAR BLUES BY WILLIAM DUFTY. It will so motivate you.  Barb, if you want a pen pal to support each other, I’m at .(JavaScr ipt must be enabled to view this email address).  Let’s do this!!  I can’t live this way anymore and binge the way I do.  I have Candida, and I have to get on the strict diet, or I’ll go crazy and feel crazy.  Love to you all.  Let’s support each other.  That’s what I feel I really need now.

Umm… are you listening to yourself? You are saying that you cannot control what you put into your body. Sounds like the problem has NOTHING to do with sugar. It has to do with your belief that “you always have to give in.” I suspect that this doesn’t just apply to eating sugar. Saying NO is a decision that YOU make, not your mind. So take charge and say NO. Remember, sugar is not the problem (it is not an enemy), it is the fact that you can’t stop consuming it (that’s not a problem either). The “problem” is that you “want” to quit sugar but you “can’t.” If you are still “giving in” get some help. If that fails too, just keep on eating sugar… who cares? We are all going to die. I’m serious.

Thanks Gabe.  I appreciate what you said.

Gabe,

What a tremendously helpful comment!  I am just stunned by its simplicity and inherent logic!  Whoever said “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” had it all wrong.  Clearly, based on the “we are all going to die” theory, the quote should read:  “if at first you don’t succeed, do whatever you want, because you’re going to die anyway.”

I have been sober for 18 years and nicotine-free for 7 years, but what the heck, I’m not gonna live forever, so why suffer the cravings??

Ok, I’m off for a pack of Parliments and a cold Budweiser.  Everyone have a great day!

Dripping with Sarcasm in Granby.

No matter what form does it will die, whether it is a craving or a human body. Allow it to die, or keep it alive with compulsive thought (“I can’t” is an excellent one for being stuck). So if “you can’t” either allow that thought to go, or hold on to it. You decide. If sugar (or anything else) is more important that life itself realize the choice that you are making, if you can’t that’s fine too. There is no such thing as a “problem.” You are going to die anyway and once you die, only what’s true of you remains. Give up the idea of somebody who is “trying to quit” give up all ideas and addiction will no longer exist. If you’d like visit this journal: http://theredbeliever.livejourn al.com

Love.

Hi Gabe,

Are you saying we are wrong to think there is such a thing as addiction—to sugar or anything else?

David

my name is cheyenne and im only 16 i eat sugar all the time it’s like i cant quit even if i try. i can eat a piece of pie,cookies and a twinkie and still need sugar. im scared so bad that im going to be fat and have diabetes when i get older. ive tryed to get support from my family but they still do what they want. that doesnt help me any at all…what do i do?

it took me three years to give up sugar finally.  i was fat.  i lost 14 pounds in a month (oh by the way i’m a month old vegetarian) and never in my life do i regret this choice.  I don’t eat dry fruit, but i eat pasta and bread (although i don’t eat nuts)  Sudenly people tell me i’m actually beautiful.  my skin glows.  i have energy.  Everybody is gonna die. But i don’t want to live to eat, but eat to live.  Sudenly i can go through hours and not think of food (i feel free)  and my time is better spend.  i’m not blaoted all the time anymore.  Sugar was a god to me, and i would eat it where no one could see me, and i didn’t want to hang out.  And if i did i was also self-concious.  i hope that this helps someone out there.  Sugar is not worth it.  It never was.  Sugar comforted me, but now i realise that i don’t need it.  i eat great and everything i want, i get fuller faster and stays full for longer.  i don’t binge anymore or feel wasted.  and suddenly, my life is all coming back to me, things i wanted to fix inmy life is suddenly all right.  And it was sugar’s fault.  i hate sugar, and that hate and anger makes me go on…and i’m still losing the pounds, (its amazing how guys suddenly notice me…and i now realise that when i was so very overweight..i was not the person i am now. i’ve changed, and i am actually starting to except myself.  Thank God for my change of heart )Good luck everyone.  KEep on trying.  oneday you might just succeed!  Thanx David.

i just wanted to give another update. This week i’ve lost another 10 pounds!!!!....  and to think that sugar was the culprit…

Mimi,

10 pounds since the 24th?!

David

yes…but i drink alot of water, and i walk alot- (i don’t have a car)  so i guess it all helped.  And since i’ve given sugar up, i don’t feel weak anymore, although i’ve realised that coffee can make me feel not so well either… but i want to loose another 25 pounds, because my sister is getting married…and i’m young.  I want to be able to enjoy my body, and i don’t want to have any regrets one day…besides, i don’t need sugar.  I’m sweet enough. haha

Hi Cheyenne,

Sorry, I missed your comment. Feel free to write to me through the contact form and I’ll be happy to help you!

David