LOTS of sweets and ice cream. For several weeks, it was the biggest decision I allowed myself.......Rocky Road, butter nut pecan or cookie ice cream????

When we stop drinking, it's natural to crave sugar - now that we've removed a lot of it :)

Glad you're here,
Keep coming back!

In the early days, I ate mainly sugary things, ice cream, chocolate, sweets, etc. That went away after a few months. Nowadays, i do still eat a lot at night but try to stop before it gets late.

15 months in and still can't/won't put down the Ben and Jerry's;)

As far as drinks go- to satisfy the oral thing, it's coffee or seltzer (w/ various mix-ins).
Like a lot of people who replied, I have craved sweets or the first time since I was a kid. I used to never even think of eating sweets. Now I'm buying candy, cheesecake, other sweets. Nothing crazy or overboard- just a treat I. The afternoons and evenings after dinner.
I fish after work I relieve stress, or sing/ play guitar. Exercise as well. They say you shouldn't change one addiction for another, but in my case if I have to choose between booze and sweets, I'll go with the sweets.

I don't remember having an oral fixation, more just finding something to do with all my anxiety/energy. I used to walk the dogs a lot.

I guess I did go overboard on coffee...

Tootsie Pops, lots of them. I haven't had one in three years now and I still never want another. I also smoked lots of pot and I haven't had any of that for over nine months. Thank God I quit cigs twenty years ago. I stayed away from sodas. I still love my coffee and green tea. Good chocolate in moderation.

Mine was shopping. To the point of near financial ruin. I am still not completely debt free even after many years. I have learned that it's exactly the same as booze: it changes the way I feel; it gives me the buzz, albeit short-lived. I've recognized my behavior/sickness in loads of things I do & love. It's actually quite selfish & I have to work on myself constantly.

I have to admit that I took up smoking again (in Vapour form) after 20 years as a none smoker. I have such an addictive nature and just wanted something "naughty" something "not allowed". I went completely cold turkey stopping alcohol and one evening about a month into sobriety I was out socialising and came so close to picking up a drink. It was in that moment that I turned to a friend and used their vapour e cigarette and felt satisfied. So I swaped one bad habit for another but I reason with myself that my new bad habit does not affect or hurt other people just myself. I don't give myself a hard time over it I just except it.

Reese's. Lots of them.
I still can have a problem with them. Can't eat just 6 or 7.
But they haven't made my life unmanageable.
Yet.:dee

Reading through this thread, it's striking how we all binged on sugar early on.

It's also interesting how how commonly we ran to ice cream.

I banged Baskin-Robbins Jamocha Almond Fudge!

I'm about to bite into my iced honey bun and take a shot of coffee with to much sugar in it. I feel as if I've hardly put a dent in my negative core behaviors, however, I'm enjoying working on it. The most positive thing I have done is stay here on SR, rootin for everyone. :egypt:
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I could put away a family sizes bucket of ice cream in under three days. Been trying to cut back on sugars now.

Oh yes, lots of things. My sugar fix has come from doughnuts. I have been eating hot Krispy Kremes like crazy lately! Drinking a bit more coffee, seltzer and cranberry juice. And I've been doing a lot more cooking.

Also, walking a lot more, meditating and devoting more time to my spiritual life, and reading. These are things I did when I drank, but only sporadically.

I started to eat Chocolate and Drink Coke. But I deliberately did this to ward off any cravings and to silent the AV. 3 Months after I started to cut down and eventually stopped the sugar. I didn't find it to hard as I was never a sweet person in the beginning. I try to make a conscious decision in stopping myself from replacing my previous addiction with a new one (all be it Sugar etc etc)

I think it has to do with how the body metabolizes alcohol. Think I read it turns it into sugar?
Or sumthin like that.

Meetings, hanging out with others in recovery, basketball, golf, sking, anything just to keep out of my head.

Beer was my poison so club soda is comforting. It is somewhat filling and it has the same nice little bubbles. Antabuse helped me too.

When drinking I would eat very small amounts of food throughout the day just to keep from vomiting and when I was done drinking I would eat like a pig and pass out. Now that I'm not drinking I'm craving carbs and sugar. Drinking lots of sports dinks and water. My metabolism is all out of wack.

This forum mainly!

It think there is a pathetic morsel of ice cream in the bottom of the carton in the freezer. I am going to look for it right now.