We are DETOXING & Quitting Sugar!!!

[wonderstanding]

yeah, we all have our different vices...

my main three are: problems with authority figures with lower IQ's (I'm getting better at maintaining this one), alcohol (this helps with the first one sometimes! LOL! but I am a LOT better than I used to be... I used to drink to the point of passing out EVERY NIGHT... now I just have a beer here and there and I get tanked about once every 4-5 weeks), and adrenaline (mainly from cars... this one has probably caused more problems than the alcohol!!! (ok, not really, but it's a tough addiction to feed!)

I'm lucky that I can't stand sugar, but I LOVE pizza... I usually pass on the fries by concious effort... don't have cravings for them or anything, but I don't hate them the way I hate sugar... I get pretty hepped up on caffeine a couple times a week... not really big on chips unless I'm eating mexican and there's GOOD hot sauce!

I DO like good chocolate, but I like REALLY dark chocolate... so protein shakes, super-black coffee or Guiness take care of any chocolate cravings!

interesting topic... nothing but good luck wished your way on your quest!!! it really is an addiction... you'll find that your cravings subside... perhaps I just never got "re-addicted" after my year off...

it's like quitting anything... if you're quitting smoking and you "cheat" once a week when you go to the bars, you'll never lose the craving... but if you quit for 6 months or so, the smell of smoke will make you want to retch... it's like that for me with sugar now...

the ONLY times I have refined sugar these days are post workout (creatine and gatoraide or creatine and glucose) and the occasional DARK chocolate...

once again, GOOD LUCK! stick with it, you'll feel MUCH better!!!

I'll drink a beer for ya!

Forrest

 

[sheez_ripped]

I'm with ya gals...

prepping for a show and really being strict on diet...carb cycling...and no junk....no sugar....

but Splenda has been the answer for me...it's great on oatmeal with a little cinnamon....and I have cut out all meal replacements...but do get to use just protein powder....so add water, ice, a little Splenda and cinnamon and put in blender....and VOILA! my "milkshake" treat!

But, I feel soooo much better without the sugar, junk, process foods in my system....

 

[SteelWeaver]

it's like quitting anything... if you're quitting smoking and you "cheat" once a week when you go to the bars, you'll never lose the craving... but if you quit for 6 months or so, the smell of smoke will make you want to retch... it's like that for me with sugar now...

Tell me about it! I quit smoking just under a year ago, and ever since then (well, since before then) the smell of smoke near me makes me sick to my stomach - I'm a thousand times worse than my gf used to be when I smoked. Unfortunately, we're kind of in the Dark Ages here, and people are allowed to smoke in the office before 9, from 12-1 and after 5. One guy who sits right near me is a FUCKING chain-smoker - the bell hasn't even finished ringing at 12 and he's lit up ... Great, the pleasant waft of smoke whilst I eat my oatmeal pancake

At least when I used to smoke I was a considerate smoker ...

As for sugar - well, I wish you ladies (and men) good luck. Me, I don't care for sweet things WHEN I'M NOT ON DIET! I'm on diet now, so I know exactly how you feel, although I only give in to the cravings once a week, on carb-up day. Let's see, this Saturday I'm going to have crunchy granola cereal, jelly bellies, Graham crackers, pancakes with Hershey's choc syrup ...

Bwwaaahah ha ha haaaa

(sorry, that was mean, but maybe this'll harden you ...)

 

[VeggieLifterChick]

I've been "clean" this week, had a few chocolate pb protein bars when I needed em. But tonight, it really got tough. I am all stressed out from midterms and I was walking past Au Bon Pain and god I wanted an oatmeal raisin cookie and a hot chocolate with whipped cream on top soooooooooooooooooooo bad. Its kind of a comfort thing I guess. But I kept thinking of Gladiola, how I promised her I wouldn't cheat for 6 weeks. And I thought of how it has been a whole week already, only 5 more to go, so I don't wanna ruin it tonight. But I'm going to go to the cafe down the street a little later and I'm going to have to have something sweet. *Any suggestions as to what would be legal? Coffee type drinks?* I'd love a vanilla chai but I'm pretty sure that's very very sugar filled.

 

[VeggieLifterChick]

Thanks Spatts! I am going to try that. I have some chocolate protein powder and splenda at my dorm, though no sugar free hot chocolate powder. I'm sure itll taste good in coffee with some skim milk, or non dairy, whichever. Is there an advantage to non-dairy creamer over skim milk?

 

[Temple]

Oatmeal Treats
you may have to do this a few times to get it right, I experimented a long time ago with this and don't remember exactly what worked best and don't go crazy eating these either but they aren't half bad

2 c splenda
1/4c cocoa powder
5 scoops chocolate protein powder
Splenda - just a bit don't remember how much so improvise, you just want the splenda and cocoa to melt together
heat all this to bubbling in a sauce pan

in mixer
4c old fashioned oats
1/2 c natural peanut butter

Pour chocolate mixt over oats and peanut butter and mix well, drop spoonfuls onto wax paper and refrigerate.

That is the rough version - if anyone perfects it let me know

 

[Brishen]

So, everyone - how's it going??????

Err... not that I had committed to a militant no-sugar diet, but I am trying to choose more nutritious foods over sucrose-y quick-fixes. Let me just say this:

P is for peanut butter, which I ate in abundance, as it was inside the chocolate shell of my Reese peanut butter cups.
M is for Mike, the guy behind the counter at Husky who sold me both the Kit Kats....
S is for soda, which I drank way too much of, as it was somehow beyond me to refill the Brita with water and Pepsi was the only liquid in my roomate's fridge.

D'oh! :homersimpson: Would you believe I actually work at a nutrition store? Sheesh. The shame! The hypocrisy! The - hey, is that a Ferrero Rocher I spy behind the couch? Gottagobye!

 

[Brishen]

Don't you love it though, a few days after you start, when all that water goes away and you look like a million bucks despite your binge? Ah.....

Say what? OK, so how 'bout that no-sugar bandwagon?

 

[vixenbabe]

Hmmmmm.. suppose this means no white chocolate Easter Bunny on Sunday? (sorry, I been smelling my lil girl's Easter Bunny I have hidden in my desk drawer- I'm gonna cave in and bite the lil bastard's ears off yet)

I wish you much luck to your goal!!

 

[SheHuLK]

I'm glad to hear you girls are doing good. Me? I'm pretty proud of myself too!! I have had no real sugar (white powdery junk), No chocolate, no marshmellow peeps!! It's been tuff, this whole sugar detoxing thing, specially around Easter time. I swear those pink marshmellow peeps are haunting me. I was at Walmart the other day with my fiance (who is my sponsor) and when I glanced up, there was like a mountain of peeps, (ok so maybe not a mountain, but a BIG stacked display thingie)...all sorts of colors.. pink, yellow, purple.. bunnies and chicks... i could hear them calling my name!! but i was strong and resisted the temptation. No peeps for me! My fiance was really proud of me, and i was too Now when I have fruit, it tastes so sweet to me. My protein shakes taste really sweet now too, almost like a treat! I have had peanut butter, but only for the protein ofcourse Overall I'd say I've been good