I’ve been trying to quit sugar for a couple years now.  It controls my life, and today I will quit for the thousandth time.  This website gave me some inspiration.

Glad to hear that! I hope you try the sugar challenge.

Sugar has been controlling me, and I have tried many times to quit as well. Yesterday, I decided that in order to be happy and get back my life, I must completely quit sugar. Then I found this website today. Do you have any tips to help me through the first stages?

Hi Blueeyed,

My first suggestion is to do this month’s sugar challenge.  simply write down everything you eat. think of it as mapping out you eating habits. Write to me again after that. (Or if you have questions in the meantime, of course!)

David

My family would literally yell at me and take sweets out of my hand. I would make a verbal and conscious decision to stop and nezt thing I know I’m woling down a glazed doughnut. I even have a cavity. It’s really gotten out of hand.

Hi Vanadia,
Actually I have written down what I eat many times. The desire for sugar only “overtakes me” after work (or after dinnertime.) Very frustrating. I didn’t eat any sugar for the last 2 days and was feeling great until I ate some last night. It made me feel horrible again. How do I get through the feeling of that intense desire to have some? At times it feels like it overtakes my mind. Any suggestions?
Thanks!

The feeling of wanting sweets won’t go away until you actually AVOID SWEETS. When you get ravenously hungry for sugar, eat something else. This is something only you can do. You must eat something. You can’t just avoid sugar and not eat. The intense wanting of sugar is a physical as well as emotional reaction. So you ate sweets the other night. No worries. You made it two days without sugar! Keep working on it. Try three days and reward yourself with a small sweet treat. Then go for four days. Then a week. Keep building a gap between you and sugar and keep making negative associations with eating sugar. Remember how bad it makes you feel every time you’re about to take a bite of something sweet. And finally, rid your home of the stuff and replace sweets with other no-sugar foods. You have to eat when you are hungry. This is the first step.