So. Moderation.
This is going to be harder than I thought. I'm officially off sweets again. At least for a week or so to get myself under control. I didn't crash. I just let it swerve a little.
Scared me to death.
I know for sure that I have a huge problem if I swear off sweets forever. I know for sure that I have a huge problem eating just a little bit too. I already know I can't live with eating all-I-can-eat sweets, that's why we're here in cyberspace together.
Definition of a conundrum, that's what that is.
I'm on 'vacation', which means I'm visiting Southern Relatives on a Holiday. There is candy everywhere. Not to mention lunch dessert, snack dessert and dinner dessert. At least we're not the kind of family that deep fries candy bars. There is that.
I've kept up on my miles. But today I was hoping to get out and walk just to freshen up my mind and forget about candy for an hour. But TOM cramps-shut up Jack Sh*t this is legitimate-left me curled in a ball. I know that they would've lessened up if I'd just have walked. But I didn't. I lay on the bad. And I may have cried a weensy bit when nobody was looking. Boo. Poor me.
Please tell me. I know many of us are here because we have exactly the same problem. But has anyone conquered anything and been able to add it back in moderately? Typical addictions don't apply, and I feel guilty about comparing it to an addiction. Anyway . . .
*photo by Two Big Paws*
Feel better.
ReplyDeleteI have to come all the way off sweets for a time whenever I'm trying to get back on track. Easter was a killer, as it is every year for me. I don't know for myself if I'm ever going to be a moderation person. I know for today I'm not, so for today, no sugar. Fruit is fine. But no sugar.
Enjoy your vacay ~
Can an addiction ever be conquered? I don't think so. I have a very addictive personality and whatever i get hooked on, i then have to totally go without it when i realise i have a problem with it :o/
ReplyDeleteBut in saying that, i have a big problem with booze and am always trying to find a way around giving it up. I'm doing ok so far lol
I have a sweet tooth too. Try bargaining with yourself and using the sweet stuff as a reward. I'm using the booze as a reward and it's working nicely ATM
Oh boy... I have to cut all sweet or I'm not gonna survive this thing. I doesn't ever change for me. It's like being in AA. "Wine counts" One sip and you're off the wagon. One trick I have for myself is I have just a little bit of ice cream to dip my fruits in. That for some reason doesn't make me wanna eat more. And when I have a whole apple sliced perfectly, dipping it in one scoop of plain ice cream takes a little longer to eat so may be that's where my satisfacyion comes from. But I can't really use chocolate ice cream honestly I would have the whole box full of it and then some.
ReplyDeleteI gave up soda and then added it back. It worked for a few months until recently. I crashed... I didn't just swerve... Ha! You're writing cracks me up. Maybe it's time for me to do the same... and take soda out.
ReplyDeleteI have the same problem (different food) and wonder if I can ever eat something in moderation that I know I sooo want and have always overeaten in the past. Maybe, like any true addict, I need to just avoid it. Maybe if I do that long enough I will not miss it any more?
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see if anyone tells you that they are managing to add back their candy or whatever.
so - first of all - love the picture (I'm a motorcycle racer so it's near and dear to me! and second of all - still haven't managed to give up sugar. And it's a gateway drug for me - leads me straight to binging. I'm restricted it a LOT but haven't given it up...I keep telling myself I haven control. But I keep being wrong about that. There's a lesson in there, I don't even have to look that hard.
ReplyDeleteGood luck!
Food in and of itself is super tricky because you need "some" to survive. Is it a true addiction? Or is it that you always binge with sweets because that is always what you do?
ReplyDeleteHabits can be changed, of course. Even if you have to use sheer willpower.
I do believe addictions can be managed but probably never completely conquered.
No help I know but that's all I got.
Still working on it over here. Fighting the good fight while going with the flow.
ReplyDeleteWell...I was able to eat a bit of a brownie yesterday and not overindulge. Sweets and some carbs....yum....love them. I just have to keep reminding myself that eating them is not the problem. Eating them until I am sick is the problem :) Moderation and self-control...this is what I try to practice!!!
ReplyDeleteI have the same problem with sweets! I acutally just posted a little about it today.
ReplyDeleteI know we can do this, though. We will have to re-train our minds and bodies to know it is okay and satisfying to have just a little once in awhile.
Good luck!
You are right it is a problem for many of us and that is one of the reasons we have found one another in the blog world.
ReplyDeleteSugar is a controlled substance for me!After the books I have read, I believe it can be an addiction.
Have you read Dr Kessler's book "The End of Overeating" I did a book review and wrote a little bit about what he has to say about food addictions on my blog. If you use the tab on the top of my home page that says motivation it will take you to a link for that posting.
Reading that book filled in so many missing pieces to the puzzle of food cravings and the feeling of no control.
Kessler says ” Chronic exposure to highly palatable foods changes our brains, conditioning us to seek continued stimulation. Over time, a powerful drive for a combination of sugar, fat and salt competes with our conscious capacity to say no.”
I have not given up sweets or sugar but I do eat them in a different way in order to maintain control.
I don't eat sweets on an empty tummy, I have them after a balanced meal in order to control the impact on my blood sugar. I don't have sugary sweets every day, they are a special treat and the more I have them the more I want them. The less I have of the sweets, the less I want it.
For me it is easier not to start eating certain things than it is to stop eating them.
Kessler's book explains why.
Dr Phil says that our weight is managed never cured. I am working at managing mine.
I hope this helps.
When I first started losing my weight I did a total taboo on sweets. It was a good thing for me.
ReplyDeleteEventually I could add in sweets without too much of a problem. There were definitely times I overdid it, but I just gave myself a talking to and got back on track.
You can do this!!