I have the same problem with chocolate. I'm trying simple avoidance but the cravings are still pretty intense especially after I slip up. I'm also overeating other things (mostly fruit) in order to chew my way through the cravings in a slightly healthier fashion. My weight is unsurprisingly stalled. One thing that does keep me from giving up altogether is having a handle on what my body is struggling with. It makes me feel less weak to know about the chemical component of my sugar/fat addiction. I'm hoping over time my body will re-adjust and the cravings will go away and let me take the next step with getting my diet under control.

Forewarned is forearmed as they say. Two books that I would recommend are;

Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss

Fat Chance (beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease) by Robert H. Lustig, M.D.

Hope they help you to try and stay on task as much as they are helping me.

I don't know how anyone could be more addicted to sugar than I am. I'm a recovering alcoholic who almost never ate sweets during the 40 some years that I drank. I stopped almost 5 years ago and started eating sugar with a vengeance. Once I started eating any kind of sweets I would eat it until there was no more. I've even eaten the stuff until I was actually sick and then went and got some more to make myself feel better.

What helped me to kick the sugar habit was getting off of processed food. Almost anything in a box, can or jar has sugar, sugar disguised as something else or ingredients that turn to sugar as soon as you eat them. These can all cause you to crave sugar. Fruit juice is loaded with sugar and can also cause cravings.

I would recommend getting off the fruit juice and focus on protein, healthy fats and lots of veggies. Avoid processed food like the plague and stay away from grains. Hopefully your cravings will get better in no time at all. Mine went away in a matter of days plus I felt 100% better. Then you can start adding whole grains back into your diet and see what happens. I have to stay away from them because they just make me hungry and cause cravings for sugar.

Then maybe you can find a way to get some fruit back into your diet. Try adding some fresh or frozen fruit to a protein shake and blending it up well in a blender. You could also add berries or chopped fruit in with a salad.

Hope that helps.

im uncertain but sugar causes us to get hungry. it's a cycle. sugar fixed followed by wanting more sugar. it's liken to humming bird but bird burns up cal.'s just as fast as it eats.
Home made sweets : )
I use less sugar eggs I use zero cal' free sub sugar.
I use only water and if needed 1 to 2 eggs max. I blend wheat flour and white flower. I never put any type of oil/buyer in to batter.
I will use olive oil r can spray "Pam " to coat the pan.
"Pam" also has butter flavor.
Oh at end of week I take weeks left over veggies. I make a veggie soup. I use canned broth. I chill the broth and then dip off floating fat.
I believe that foods taste better the following day.

Chocolate is so hard to turn down. I like bags of bite size candy pc.'s/ I freeze it. I only set out, up to 5 pc's for day, supply. Read lables.
remember all foods that on market is protolum. aw plastic taste so darn good.
American's will eat anything. just add grease n/r salt n/r sugar.
In some countrys it is against the law to sale American food because it is si dam unhealthy.

ty you all for your suggestions. you all gave me some things to try.

Like all addictions there is a root cause. Once you delve into the inner workings of why you need sugar then you can overcome it. Addictive substances have emotional attachments. They serve a purpose, albeit unhealthy. Sometimes its used to comfort ( i.e. comfort foods) or soothe a bad memory or an attempt to erase a traumatic experience. Or to alter one's state of consciousness. Recovery begins with the admission of that the substance is harming the life of the user. Then healing goes from there.

This is interesting to read. I don't eat chocolate and I can't have much sugar in a day. Just very little. I grew up with a diabetic mother. Maybe I don't like sugar very much. Sorry, it's just that I'm surprised that some people like sugar

I personal woul check to see if I was even boarder line di-bte-tic.
that cause people to crave sugar.
Im hypo. Im suppose to eat suag but I don't care much for it.