I have such an impossible problem with eating sugar. I always promise myself that ‘today I will start my healthy lifestyle change’ but it always gets put of another day. So it has gotten put off now all summer long. I can never have just a little bit, if I have even a taste I eat everything I can get my hands on telling myself that I can start tomorrow.
After I eat it I always say how could I ever eat this again? But the next day I want some more and I don’t care what happens as a result, until after I eat it. So I seem to follow this pattern.
See three times in the space of about 1 year I have gone on a 1,400-1,500 calorie diet with cardio every day. I got my weight down to 128 lbs each time but after reaching that point I just kind of quit all at once and gained it all back. Now I’m at my heaviest of 150 lbs. I can’t seem to get over this problem and I’m so miserable, but when I want sweets and junk nothing seems to matter until I’m done. I will be 17 Dec. 1st and I wanted to weight like 130-135 at most by then, (I’m 5’6)but this problem is really getting me down. What can I do about this? Please help.

Any advise or help would be great.

you need to spend time reading the stickied threads around the forum.

Losing weight is easy... read around and you'll see that.

BUT as you've said in other threads - you've got bigger issues.. you don't want to put the effort into losing weight... You need to find the motivation within yourself...

Mal is right. Based on your the title of the thread, there may be other factors influencing your weight.

It sounds like you have found a plan that worked for you. That's great.

What are some reasons you think that this success may not have lasted as long as you wanted?

All the best,
Brian Dean MS,RD
Collaboration Coordinator, NutriYoga LLC

Hi Olivia,
I am completely understanding of how you feel. I have 10 grand worth of dental work to prove it, too. Sugar is a terrible, terrible addiction, and I think people downplay just how bad it can get.

It's pointless for me to go on about myself, because you have pretty much summed it up, but there is hope. I'm a month past my last sweet. I'm finding things that help me get past cravings fairly well. For one, a few raisins, for some reason they get the intensity down a bit, then I sit and do a puzzle or play a video game. Just long enough so that when I'm done, the craving has passed.

I made a little book of sudoku that fits into my pocket and I can carry it every where for bad cravings. Basically, I just took puzzles from the paper, cut them out, and pasted them into a pocket notebook. It's kind of hard to get myself to do them unless they are in my pocket at all times.

I have to say, once you hit the two week mark, the cravings get a little better. The first week is hard. Really, really hard. You can get through it though. Just have a bit of faith in yourself.

Hope this helps. I seriously was just as bad as you are and I'm getting by now. =)

Find something sweet that's not as bad for you, like almonds or grapes or something.

Just don't use splenda, or any other artificial sweetener.