So many people insist that certain cravings go away if you abstain from something long enough but I haven't found that to be the case AT ALL and it's getting frustrating.

I have a major sweet tooth. Detoxed during pre-op in January, have stayed away from my vices (sweets & baked goods as well as LASAGNA/pasta) since but the cravings really haven't subsided as much as I've been led to believe.

I keep hoping a week will pass where I'm not fantasizing about cupcakes but no such luck!

I feel like I'm ALWAYS going to be dealing with this psychological obsession. It's a REAL distraction in life! I wish I could get electroconvulsive therapy or have my brain scrubbed to somehow forget the taste of pastries!

Anybody else in this sorry state?

I don't really have cravings anymore. Before my surgery(several months before) I did a sugar detox. I loved sugar. If I were to have drowned in a silo full of sugar, I would have been okay with it. I can look at cake and miss it, but I don't get obsessive and hangry and needy the way I used to when I was on the stuff. Similarly my husband keeps ice cream in the house and it no longer bothers me. But I will say it took weeks to really detox myself from the sugar. And that first one was a bad one.