Sweet tooth.
 

This may be a dumb question. Did anyone else develop a sweet tooth after giving up alcohol?

Yep. This easter was like a chocolate massacre at my place

Wait until the kids find out I ate their humpty dumpty

What you are experiencing is very normal

I drink a quart or two of Gatorade a day ,it helps and has a bit of sugar to help .

PowerAde works too .

I do try to avoid sweets like candy though , but if you eat candy . You wont wreck your car and kill someone ,or get into a bar fight .........or a thousand other things drunk people do :)

This question/observation gets posted all the time. Normal as hell. I sometimes wish this and a thread about NA beer were stickies.

So what does it hurt if it gets reposted ?

And someone reads something that helps them ?

It is normal. Our alcoholic bodies do not process the mass quantities of the sugar we put in it in the form of alcohol like normal people's bodies do.
Do not load up when you feel the craving. Try and avoid processed sugars. Get it from fruit or fruit juice instead....The kind without added sugar.
If you need a quick boost of sugar try a hard candy and let it dissolve slowly.

Your pancreas may eventually get back to normal.....but in the meantime don't feed the beast like you did with alcohol.

Moderation.....introduce and consume it slowly....and avoid processed sugars.
This too shall pass.

I do better without a lot of sugar too , BUT

A cold Gatorade sure is a good substitute for my beer I used to drink in the evenings .

oh yes and a fast visit to just about any treatment center and one will see a lot of the patients eating candy bars sweets and ice cream

Sweet tooth? Nah!!!! Ice cream, cookies, cakes, honey buns, cheesecake, let me at it!

I certainly did, and 2 years later I'm finally trying to break my sugar addiction. It's just as hard as quitting drinking but at least the stakes aren't so high.

This is probably asked all the time. I even asked at a meeting a couple months ago and got a knowing reply from just about everyone. I think I ate more chocolate in a two month period than I did for the previous two years+.
It will go away. At some point you will have to force yourself to start laying off the sweets.
Except tonight when somebody brought a tray of M&M cookies to the meeting. I had 4 plus coffee. Why I'm still awake tonight.

Oh man, totally! I'm not a fan of sweets at all, I've always preferred salty chips and such. But after quitting the poison I have the dreaded sweet tooth. I now find I must have something sweet after lunch and after dinner. I expect it to pass like someone else stated. Sugar is not good for you. And of course what I crave is the bad stuff like peanut m&ms...

Who said it hurt anything? In fact I think it will help, hence the quip about it ought to be a sticky, where it would always be at the top of the forum to be read more often.

Yeah, strange that. I was never a big chocolate eater but since I kicked the booze I have had quite a lot, suppose we must be replacing the lost calories that drink was full of.

My two faves are ice cream and custard, just can't resist those😳

I sure did. I began to exercise often so I didn't fault myself for keeping around a bag of Red Vines or having a soda once in awhile.

Black liquorice ........... I can't get enough of it.........even worse've moved onto chocolate coated liquorice..........aargh........at least i'm sober.

The sweet craving eases in time....or so i'm told......waiting......waiting.....waiting........ eating........waiting........eating.........waitin g.......

Dear God -- if it may help just one
 

I'm with you karate
why complain about a little repost here and there
all are important issues for the
ones wishing to get sober
and
the sober ones

my prayer continues to be
Dear God -- if it may help just one

MM

PS -- still enjoying sweets here on the mountain

occasionally on the days I sectary an AA meeting
I bring a couple of dozen donuts to the meeting
always a hit with the Recovered drunks

I address sugar like I addressed the beer , none of it in the house .

I wont go get it either .

I will cave in once in a while at work and buy a butterfinger bar from the vending machine ,or a sprite or Fanta .