Yeah, today will be my first day without sugar...visible sugar... as in chocolate, biscuits, apple pies, mince pies, cake, sweets and desserts. I know I am probably allergic to white flour as well. Have battled sugar/flour addiction for 30 odd years...when I joined AA at 28, was told that a sweet might help with alcohol cravings! OA scared me with the grey sheet and I never managed it. I am 58 and concerned about health,

Hey WE ARE NOT ALONE! That in itself is comforting. So glad you connected and shared!
I've done elimination SLOWLY at first, started dabbling in gluten free several years ago. Our family has owned an ice-cream shop for 20 years so I've lived in the extremes with sugar long enough to have serious intestinal damage. I'd enjoy hearing more about your journey! I've been to just a few OA meetings and haven't encountered the grey sheet...
Also in AA just over a year.

Hi! I am new to all of this so hopefully I have gotten into the correct area for me.

Seen "sugar" and had to check it out. I too, am a sugar fanatic. I LOVE, LOVE. LOVE chocolate and sweets and cannot get enough. The more I eat the more I want. I would be happiest if I could eat chocolate and sweets all day long. But my body is starting to tell me otherwise. For years now I get some really bad breakouts (as I call them) from eating too much chocolate or sweets. They are itchy and painful welts/hives. I will scratch them until they bleed and still continue to scratch. I practically live on Benadryl anymore. And yet I cry when I cant have something sweet. And they only way I can get the breakouts to go away is cut out the sweets totally.

Does anyone have any suggestions for help on how to give up eating my most favorite foods?

I have been struggling with food addiction, mainly sweets and refined flour goods for most of my life. I overeat for so many reasons: mainly stress, but celebration and depression are up there too. I had my first baby four years ago, and my second baby two years ago. Prior to pregnancy, I was much leaner, much more fit, and while I still struggled with food, I had a bit more of a handle on it. Obsessive, you could call it. Weekend binges, with low calorie weekdays to make up the difference. Not the healthiest, I know, considering I was burning tons of calories working out at the gym for for an hour a day, 5 days a week. These days, I still exercise; I run outside, and do strength training at home, but I just can’t get a handle on my diet. Severe morning sickness with the first baby changed my mostly vegetarian, pretty healthy weekdays, to “eat whatever you can stomach to survive” mode. And it just spiraled out of control from there. I am desperate to lose the rest of the baby weight, lose all the fat I now have (and that I’ve never in past, like never ever). But every time I try to diet and inevitably fail, I eat so much that I completely destroy any progress I made. And create even more fat on my body.

Please, if anyone had any tips, I am totally open to suggestions. I joined the site, and this group, hoping to make a real change for myself.