Food Addiction Support Group

I am in the same boat as you sweets! I don't need french fries or burgers but, cake candy or anyother sweet thing once I start can't stop. Not sure it this works for me it has thus far I choose one thing that I can have after dinner. It helps me because when I want that sugar during the day it clicks in my brain that I get that one favorite thing later. Of course you have to just one portion. If you have any idea's pass them my way. Good luck!

I know exactly what you both mean. I'm in the same boat. I have dinner sometimes earlier, and I just want something sweet. I might sound really bad, but the dollar general started selling the candy corn for halloween, I bought a round flat container of it. I force my self to try to eat 1 or two sweets, they have to be the same thing, but sometimes, I binge. I can't help it. Like the other night, My sister-in-law bought a tub of ice cream. I thought there wasn't a whole lot in there, so I finished off. Well today, she brought it up at the dinner table. I felt really embarrassed and ashamed. Try to count how much sweets you eat, then taper it down to about 1 or 2 things.

I bought some caramel hard candies to help me stop. I did good yesterday. I had a cookie and a piece of the candy. But thank you for all the advice! I will definatly use it!

Hey there, I'm the same. A Friday night would be a tub of ice-cream, packet of cookies or block of chocolate...after dinner! You need to realise that your addiction is a habit of something you've done over and over and over so many times that it's become a part of your routine and your mind freaks out when it doesn't think it's getting it's fix.

It's like underwear - if you didn't put some on this morning you'd be uncomfortable and be dying to go home straight away and put some on, you wouldn't be satisfied until you were wearing them. It's because you've been wearing them every day of you life and you become physically and mentally uncomfortable.

Now if you didn't wear underwear for a month, it wouldn't be so strange and foreign a feeling (yes maybe a bit dirty but you get the analogy). This is because you would've broken your habit of putting on underwear. You would have done the uncomfortable thing so many times that the new way becomes the comfortable way and has become your new habit. Does that make sense?

I've just given up sugar and I'm starting week 3. Sometimes cravings are the worst they've ever been but oh my goodness it's working. This weekend was the first weekend ever I didn't put on weight which has NEVER happened. I can feel the grip that sweets had on me slowly loosen and now I truely believe I can overcome this! It's a great feeling. If you're a sugar addict you need to cut it out for at least a month then maybe give yourself a bit here and there. If you were a hard core heroin addict but told you should only have 1 or 2 serves a day, it would not be long until you went on an all out binge and hooked even worse than before. Then the addict will always be addicted as the addiction isn't broken, just the intake is lessened fr a short amount of time. Try to look of it that way.

Good luck with everything and let me know how you go! :)