Cheery's buttling diary: tea in one hand, plant pot in the other, running shoes on

Cheery_Daff

Thank you lovely ladies :kisses3:

Sugar addiction is definitely the word :eek: I can eat three chocolate bars in a row, one after the other, and still want another one :eek: I *know* I feel/look/sleep better when I eat properly, and when I'm in the middle of it it's not that difficult - but when I fall off it's *so* hard to get back on...

Starnac I got down to 8 stone 13 once! :eek: Just for one day :rotfl: I liked being about 9 stone 7 but haven't been there for years - around 9 stone 12 seems a nice balance and be reasonably sustainable and that's what I'm aiming for this time - I'm only about 10lbs off so it SURELY can't be too difficult... :rotfl:

I confess the thought of giving up sugar absolutely terrifies me which is probably a sure sign that I should :rotfl: :rotfl:

Hmm, will have a think. Feel like I need just one last day of face-stuffing first... :rotfl:

Lula-Hula

You wont have to give it up forever :eek: but it rather sounds like you need to re-set yourself. Easting 3 bars in a row and still wanting more does sound like an addictive craving in response to an upsetting situation rather than actual normal physical desire for something sweet. I've realised I'm an emotional craver when it comes to sugar and if I have a stressy day at work I literally eat sweet stuff til I feel jittery and ill and then I have an overwhelming need to go and have a lie down.

Any fruit will usually help to overcome the sweet craving, but eating refined and processed stuff from bought cakes and chocolate is a bit like poison to your system.

I still have half a teaspon in coffee and probably always will because I like it better that way, but I've learned that too much sugar actually makes me feel very unwell. We only have demarara at home and when at work I use half the quantity in my coffee as we have the white stuf and it just tastes too sweet !

starnac

Lula how long did it take for you not to crave any sugar? The more you say, the more I think that's my problem too!!

Lula-Hula

Hi Starnac,

I think it was about week or a good few days before I stopped scanning the cupboards and wanting to cram handfuls of mixed fruit or cake decorations in my mouth :rotfl:

I felt better or just more 'level' and alert within a month and now I find I'm far more aware of how my body reacts to too much sugar and how the more I have, the more it craves the stuff.

I've found it really interesting to experiment occasionally but now I genuinely rarely crave the stuff at all .... except for when I've not long had a large does and I seem to instantly want more.

Half to one teaspoon in my coffee doesn't seem to have any effect on cravings, it's the bought cakes, chocolate bars and biscuits that I really notice.

I've always loved cake and chocolate but honestly hardly have any now, and prefer to make a cake or biscuits at home as I find them far too sweet and I'm also quite scared of the refined stuff :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Hmm...

Feeling rather uncomfortable thinking about all this which is a sure sign I actually NEED to think about it :rotfl:

Just polished off an entire bar of rolo chocolate (there are 5 portions marked out on the packet and wasn't I boycotting Nestle back in the mists of time?!)

So - as of now... No chocolate/sweets/cakes/pastries/flapjack/yogurt coated raisins :eek: :eek: Let's say until my birthday which is just over 6 weeks away :eek:

Then I might have a piece of cake to celebrate :rotfl:

NOT going to say I'm giving up sugar as my sister did that and all manner of sabotaging pedants thought they were being very clever to say 'but there's sugar in bread!' and 'there's sugar in beer!'. That may well be - but I don't binge on beer or bread (except for recent short lived toast munching) - I binge on chocolate bars at train stations

And I'm not going to let myself bake either as an excuse - I made an entire tray of flapjack at the weekend and that lasted less than 24 hours :eek:

This *is* money-related, honestly Looking at my YNAB app I can see I've spent £12.85 so far this month (in 10 days!!) on this type of crappy munching :eek:

And my current paid-up-front slimming world membership runs til my birthday too, so if I can get down to my target by then, I can carry on getting weighed for free after that :j

Right then - back to work before I talk myself out of it

I promise I shall confess all on here (not that there'll be anything to confess, of course... ) :rotfl:

rtandon27

Hi Cheery! - I'll join you in the no cakes & sweets challenge if you'd like! The stress of the past couple of weeks planning our office move has sabotaged my usual healthy eating! - starting now too! - eating an apple as I type this instead of going to the cookie (biscuit) jar! - xo RT

Karmacat

It does have a financial impact, its true, as well as nutritionally - I was definitely addicted to sugar at one stage (i.e., I was buying my fix in different shops, so no one shop assistant knew how much I was buying) but even when I managed to knock that on the head, I realised I was still spending a sizeable percentage of my shopping money on calories with no nutritional value at all! Its more effort, but it ends up feeling a lot better.

And you're dead right about the issue of it doesn't matter what foods have sugar in, what matters is the way you (I) eat certain foods addictively. The only reason I don't do it now is that I don't keep those sugary foods in the house, not at all. If I buy someone chocolates as a stockingfiller gift for Christmas, I'll often eat what I've bought and have to buy it again for them - its still there, its like an alcoholic! My habits are different, but the addiction isn't :eek: I just manage it very well. The only sugar I have regularly is honey on my porridge, and dried fruit of an evening.

You can do it!

Cheery_Daff

Thanks both! :kisses3:

RT - lovely to have a cheery pal along for the ride when starting a difficult challenge! :j :j I too managed to avoid chocolate at the station and instead ate a rather sticky apple I found in my bag from last week :rotfl:

Had cheese on toast for tea :rotfl: then slimming world - 3.5lbs ON in the last 2 weeks :eek: :eek: meaning that in total in the last 9 weeks I have lost a grand total of, er, half a pound :eek: :rotfl: Some decisive action definitely needed! :eek:

Hopped to the shop on the way home and got a load of fruit to munch tomorrow, and some almonds, and weetabix - currently do porridge for breakfast but got into the habit of putting a fair whack of sugar on it whereas I don't need to with weetabix so I'll try that for a change :j

And now I MUST go and sort out the sealant round the bath!

Cheery_Daff

Hm - well it took me such a long time to get the old sealant OFF that I couldn't face running a bath after that! :eek: Hours of endless scraping with the blade from a stanley knife :eek: Still, it's off now so bath and sealing scheduled for this evening instead :j

No sugary things since yesterday lunchtime :j Had normal leftovers for lunch, a yogurt in the afternoon, an apple on the train, and cheese and toast for tea and that was it. Wasn't hungry after stuffing face in the day :rotfl:

Weetabix and banana had this morning :j

Got to ring the dentist - really sensitive tooth on one side, and some kind of mad pain on the other means I'm struggling to eat much without wincing. Trouble is, I know this is all probably related to my face-stuffing, and that makes me feel like a bad person, which makes me put off going the dentist, feeling like I *should* suffer because it's all y fault

Oh dear!

Karmacat

No no no!!! Thats not good and you know it too! You're a lovely person, just not immune to the daily ups and downs of life, like all of us! Do you use floss or those interdens brushes? Sensitive toothpaste? Definitely ring the dentist tho :kisses3: