Need Advice on Sugar Addiction

With any previous dieting prior to surgery once I went 3-4 days without sugar/candy/sweets etc... my cravings would go away. Just getting it out of my system really helped. Happy to say now I've not had those cravings having gone without for a while. Good luck with your journey.

I am 8 months out. My history: In childhood my mother was overweight and we ate sweets all the time. I became a obese child. At 4 ft tall and 4 th grade I weighed 160 lbs. very large. I have been addicted to sugar for over 60 yrs. the pre op diet was very hard. But I managed to not cheat once in the 2 weeks. Then after surgery I did not crave any sugar at all for a few months. Then when I was released to all foods I started trying a taste of this and that. Now I can eat everything and the sugar beast has raised it's ugly head. I have days where I eat too much sugar but I can't eat a whole bag of cookies or a pint of ice cream like before. I am a CARBOHOLIC and always will be so I have to watch what I do the rest of my life. This is not easy but well worth it.

I went cold turkey off of refined sugar....If you crave sugar it is bad for you...you are actually allergic to it....

What I have done is replaced the sugar with maple syrup, agave or coconut sugar...all natural and no Hexane in any of them..... So far so good...I bake my own things so it is easier to replace the sugary things with healthier choices.....

You are craving sugar because your liver has stored up sugar in it. The way to break the cravings, like I had to do, is to go on a protien diet such as Atkins. After about a week the sugar will be purged from your liver and you won't even think about sweets anymore. It works!

I had a really bad sweet tooth prior to surgery - I guess I would say it was a sugar addiction (couldn't get enough, the more I ate it, the more I craved it. Even would get sugar "hangovers".) I had quit sugar cold-turkey in the past and went through what felt like detox around the 4th day (headaches, etc.), but after that I felt a lot better. After surgery I didn't have much sugar at all, given the liquid diet we are on - so I think that, coupled with the painkillers, got me through the "detox" period. Now, I really don't think much about it at all (I was sleeved on 3/25). I can honestly say when I see sweets and desserts, I can take it or leave it (before I would have been obsessing about it) and be satisfied with one bite. I just hope that lasts! Good luck to you. :-)

Hopefully you'll be lucky like some of us and the sleeve will change your tastebuds.

During my 1 year pre-op I stopped eating all sugar and foods containing refined sugar. Now as a post-op, my tastes have changed and I have ZERO desire to eat any sugar. I even had someone put a slice of cake with double icing (which I used to LOVE) in front of me and I just let it sit there. Truth be told, the smell was even too sweet.

No desire at all. I hope it remains this way.

Thank You for all the advice I just hope it will go away cause right now it is very hard to control I am very weak, I need to grow a back bone and realize what needs to be done to make me healthier.