My wife and myself to some extent are sugar detectors. If there is sugar in some supposed "sugar-free" food we will react. When something is overtly sugary and somehow it gets past our teeth and down into our tiny tum-tums it kicks us real good.

She wanted me to poll my favorite forumites to see what goes on with you when sugar does a number on you. She is RNY but isn't much for forums, she is too busy looking in the mirror and buying new clothes.

Her reactions:

1. Sweats, hot flashes

2. Pressure in ears

3. Heart palpitations

4. Shaky

5. Headaches

My reactions:

1. Nausea

2. Weakness

What are your reactions?

She also wanted to know whether those of you who cheat, (fess up or I'll turn the lights on ya!), do so with sugary food and how you possibly get away with it.

Thanks for your time!

I admit it, I do eat sweets. I don't call it cheating though. I sadly do not have any negative reaction, so long as I keep portions in check. If I don't, I get that "sugar high". I've only done this once, and it wasn't even worth it. I have not had a negative reaction to anything at all, I can eat everything... in someways this is kinda sad. I wish I had negative reactions to some things. I do find now though, that I whereas in the past (pre-op) I could have easily eatten a huge piece of cake and not had the sugar phase me at all, now I'm good with eating 3-4 bites and usually then I'm putting the fork down thinking, "Man, that was really sugary. Bleck." My palette for sure has a lower tolerance for sugar now. I might have a treat like this once a month or so, then I remember I'm really past it and end up throwing it away after one bite.

I have experimented with sweets, but I do read the label to try and make it low sugar content. But there has been homemade sweets that I have eaten and regretted it terribly.

I also have the reaction of sweats, nausea, dizziness, much like flu symptoms for me. So I am still learning to pick my battles with this one. If I eat sweets with a label I will follow the serving size to a T on those low sugar items. I now stay away from homemade sweet treats because I know I couldn't just take one teeny bite, I would eat the whole serving. So I skip those.

I bake for a living. I've had some sweets- and by some I mean I've had 1/2 a cupcake and a tiny piece of pie (ok- like 5 tiny bites). But I have zero bad reaction. I almost wish I did. However sweets were never my thing- I was a bread and soda girl and bread makes me feel ick. And I haven't tried a soda.

Debbie's big problem before her WLS was sweets of all kinds. Mine was inordinate amounts of just about anything but I was not so addicted to sweets.

It is ironic that sweets is what fights her so hard now. Yet she knows it is a small price to pay for her new health and classy slimness.