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Date: April 20, 2017 07:10PM
+1 What Itzpapalotl says.
A protein-loaded breakfast keeps me from overeating, for the entire day! A sugary breakfast with orange juice, white toast and jam, or pancakes and syrup, throws me down into a "sugar crash", and I crave sugar for the rest of the day. I do not eat cereal for the same reason. Even oatmeal is so quickly absorbed by the body, that it acts like sugar.
I use the "CalorieKing" app to count calories. I can NOT diet. If I try to go on a diet, get so hungry and feel so deprived, that I actually GAIN weight. I use the calorie numbers as a way of keeping track of what I eat, and that is all. I'm not strict. Many days, I don't eat enough, which is not good, so I have an extra bedtime snack. If I don't eat enough, my body overcompensates by overeating, to try to balance things out, I guess. An 800 calorie day would be followed by a 2100 calorie day, for me.
Keep your blood sugar stable, by eating every 3 1/2 hours, at least. It will drop if you starve yourself, skip a meal, or postpone a meal too long. It will stay stable if you eat protein, and lots of fiber. Fiber helps metabolize sugar.
I use fruit as a treat, or as a crutch if I'm craving something sweet, but I eat it late in the day or at night.
I'm addicted to sugar, so you might not have to do the drastic things I've done, to stay off of it. Sugar makes me very hungry! Sugar hunger is more intense than regular hunger. Do you sometimes feel shaky? Is your hunger "urgent"? When I'm off of sugar, I can postpone meals (not recommended), if I'm traveling, or in a business meeting, and can't get any food. I don't feel like I'm dying of starvation, the way sugar makes you feel.
Sorry to say, that I have to give up sugar completely. Of course, there are hidden sugars in just about everything, and in fruits, but I stay away from added sugar, candy, and other junk food. The only way I can stop sugar binges is to not to even begin to eat sugar. My sugar craving is worst about 5 minutes after having some, and I have to have more, immediately. If I get a craving (usually by seeing someone else enjoying a sweet) I just wait 20 minutes, and the craving goes away by itself. Or, I just go ahead and eat a real meal, instead.
I can't have sugary treats visible in the house. I make the kids keep them hidden in their own cupboard. The first line of battle is at the grocery store. Don't buy that stuff in the first place.
Try tasting everything! I love to do this, and it works for me! If you have one bite of a cupcake, you know how it tastes. You don't need to burden your intestines and bloodstream and teeth with the rest of the gooey thing. Go ahead and have a piece of birthday cake and ice cream, but take one bite of each, and leave your plate somewhere. Don't deprive yourself of the fun.
Stop beating yourself up! Even in the middle of a binge, you can stop eating. Wait for your next meal, then congratulate yourself for eating something healthy.
I got tired of hating myself, tired of the "sugar lows", so I gave it up, cold turkey. Immediately, I slept better. The third day of cold turkey, I got a headache. The fourth day, I had body aches. Advil took care of these symptoms. By the sixth day, it was over. I feel so much better off of sugar! Curious, I weighed myself at a friend's house, and I had lost 7 pounds! A lot of that was water weight, but, still....