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How I overcame my addiction to sugar

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Re: How I overcame my addiction to sugar

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Post by Spooky23 »

ThinkBeat wrote: post #28

To compare it to heroin is a horrible trivialization of something that destroys a person and at time those around the person. I feel that to make this statement in any genuine way, the author should spend 6 months developing a serious addiction to heroin then attempt to get clean. I am blessed I have never done heroin and hopefully I never will. I have gone weeks without sugar and had a craving, some mild headaches a…

People’s experiences vary.

If you want to understand through experience, try a GLP-1 drug. It changes your relationship with rewards, from alcohol to sugar to sex.

Re: How I overcame my addiction to sugar

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Post by Galatians4_16 »

k__ wrote: post #3

It's nefarious! Especially if you have a dopamin deficiency (ADHD, etc.) and you eat so you aren't bored. I can eat 500g of m&ms in one sitting, no problem, and I'm not even overweight or something.

Switch to nuts, but be sure to pair with citrus, to offset the oxalates, or you'll get kidney stones.

Food cravings often reflect mineral cravings (1)

1. https://dailyhealthpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/21-fo...

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Post by TylerLives »

switch007 wrote: post #46

I cut out sugar for a month recently and my sleep cut in half and my depression really worsened. Really affected my job performance. I didn't think it would last that long or be that bad. It's crazy. I went back to eating bit of sugar and the same night had a great sleep. Not sure what to do now. I find it easy not to eat it but the side effects are very difficult to deal with

This will probably get a lot of downvotes, but consider the possibility that sugar is actually good for you - https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/glycemia.shtml

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cubefox wrote: post #29

Quitting cold turkey after a change of environment (moving somewhere else) is a good tip not just for addiction, but for any change in habit. However, a more practical approach is to reduce the dosage slowly. That works especially well for sweet drinks. If you have a soda maker, you can slowly reduce the amount of syrup you use. After a while, your tolerance for sweetness goes down, so things that previously felt not…

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Post by gnz11 »

lambdaone wrote: post #79
gnz11 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Come on, are you seriously implying fruit is somehow bad for you now?

The parent poster is right in that pure fructose is probably worse for you than an equivalent amount of pure sucrose. But the way that fructose is delivered to your body by digesting fruit - slowly, and in conjuction with other materials, in a way that we have evolved to tolerate - is entirely different from eating the pure chemical.

The amount of fruit you’d have to consume to ingest unhealthy levels of fructose is astronomical. Worrying about whether fruit is unhealthy is most likely causing you more harm than the fructose in fruit. Don’t worry about eating fruit.

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Post by prmoustache »

ThinkBeat wrote: post #28

To compare it to heroin is a horrible trivialization of something that destroys a person and at time those around the person. I feel that to make this statement in any genuine way, the author should spend 6 months developing a serious addiction to heroin then attempt to get clean. I am blessed I have never done heroin and hopefully I never will. I have gone weeks without sugar and had a craving, some mild headaches a…

Addiction is addiction regardless of the product or its side effects on your life. That is what is important here.

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Post by j_m_b »

I started a strict Keton diet back in April. I started by doing a 48 hour fast to completely eliminate stored glycogen stores. I also began with intermittent fasting by skipping breakfast. It was hard at first, but thankfully I never experienced the "keto flu" that some people do. I wonder if the initial fasting helped with that.

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Post by asoneth »

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #43

You can eat whatever you want if you just work out seriously an hour a day. If you do that properly, gaining weight will become the challenge.

I also find it challenging to put on weight when exercising, but to make this comment more accurate you may want to caveat that this is how your body responds to exercise.

Many people appear to experience a commensurate increase in appetite after exercise such that they do not lose weight unless they also consciously restrict calories.

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Post by inSenCite »

Everyone's struggle with addiction is different. I'm glad this person found a good way for them and I'm sure it might help others as well. Don't be discouraged if it doesn't always work for you, maybe you just need to try a different approach.
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