Been craving a lot of sweets lately...
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Serene In Dixie
Posts: 36,740
As a Type 2 diabetic....I always have sugar free candy
in my purse so I pass on sweets in meetings.
My weakness is dining out and desserts.
If I do have a dessert...I'm very strict
on what I eat for the next 24 hours.
This plan plus daily meds have kept me
in safe boundaries for 4 years.
I had been sober 15 years before diabetes struck.
As always .... a medical professionals advice is wise
before anyone starts messing around with medical issues.
Be both sober and safe ...
in my purse so I pass on sweets in meetings.
My weakness is dining out and desserts.
If I do have a dessert...I'm very strict
on what I eat for the next 24 hours.
This plan plus daily meds have kept me
in safe boundaries for 4 years.
I had been sober 15 years before diabetes struck.
As always .... a medical professionals advice is wise
before anyone starts messing around with medical issues.
Be both sober and safe ...
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Greensboro, NC
Posts: 361
I eat Nature Valley Almond Crunch granola bars all day!! They are sweet and salty and actually have 7gms pf protein in them. I love them and they totally fix my craving and cause a whole less trouble to me and the world than a case of beer!!
Oh the contingencies..
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: California
Posts: 11
I'm pretty sure I've always been alcoholic, but my first drug was food, my second was alcohol. I eat for the exact same reasons I drank: to escape [I even compulsively play spider solitaire to achieve the same effect) So today, I attempt to check my motives behind the urge to binge, drink, play games, self-injure etc. And then attempt to use the life tools I have learned in AA, to take contrary action. If AA can relieve me of my drink problem, it can also relieve me of all destructive behaviors that are backed by the same motives. I just had to do this! Ironically, it was the first official amends I had to make in sobriety (from alc)
Originally Posted by matt88 
But after gorging on a choclate cake, who wakes up a few days later promising to never touch a cake again and wondering what happened and who they might need to issue apologies too?
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Fredericksburg, Va.
Posts: 9,730
Rufus mine is chocolate!!!! That and I still dip........ working on turning that one over, the drinking was the worst, the smokes were far from easy, for some reason I fell the dipping will be easier, with the smoking and drinking a lot of it was also something to do with my hands and mouth, this is strictly my mouth and I have not dipped but about 6 months.
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: socal
Posts: 73
Yes, sweets have become a replacement vice for me.
Chocolate, soda pop, granola bars, energy drinks, etc..
I tried slowing consumption by getting hard candy that would last longer, recently it was 'Atomic Fireball' jawbreakers. That almost worked until I smashed them all with a hammer to make them bite sized chewable sugar chunks.
I sometimes even wakeup with a sugar hangover, so there is no doubt I am overdoing it.
Chocolate, soda pop, granola bars, energy drinks, etc..
I tried slowing consumption by getting hard candy that would last longer, recently it was 'Atomic Fireball' jawbreakers. That almost worked until I smashed them all with a hammer to make them bite sized chewable sugar chunks.
I sometimes even wakeup with a sugar hangover, so there is no doubt I am overdoing it.
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