DrunkTx

Sober for 2+ years. Have sort of replaced alcohol with sugar / deserts. I can handle the substitute because a) I'm not drinking and b) I run avidly, so I need the carbs/calories.

Anyway, for lent I go vegan, and for 55 days not 40. For those who don't know, vegan means no animal products including butter, eggs, milk, cream, etc. Long and short: no sweets and deserts!

The reminder: I went 55 days "sober" of deserts/sweets. While I craved every now and then, nothing impossible. Sunday came and passed, and I decided to break myself back in slowly - with a "tiny" serving of ice cream from the local shop. By the time I was done ordering, I ordered a large not tiny, I mixed in reeses pieces and cookie dough. Not good, but not horrible. But I didn't just have that, I went next door and got a bundt cake too.... in one sitting! I think I will get the gorging under control, but in what world do I think I can have just one drink? I couldn't do that with a desert, and somehow I think I can have just one beer or glass of wine. I was 55 days clean, and came roaring back instantly - and my palate didn't miss a morsel of sugar

Oh well, maybe some Doritos before I try to rein myself back in?

least

I think you'll be fine, so long as you stay sober. The eating cravings can be managed and won't wreck your life like alcohol can.

luisalehz

I'm thinking it is better to relapse on sugar than anything else. Don't be hard on yourself for that!

biminiblue

My eating sugar very well could have wrecked my life. I was 70 pounds over-weight, in a job that had sugar treats all over the place for free. At home I would eat a large tub of Butter Pecan ice cream by myself in one sitting three or four times a week, could eat an entire large pie with cool whip by myself in one day. Had I not reeled that in, I could have ended up at 500 pounds within just a few years.

Yeah. I could have died from sugar. It's bad. Diabetes, pancreatic problems, heart disease. Sugar addiction CAN be deadly. Overweight people are in a lot of danger for many reasons. To lose that weight I had to cut out the sugar for the most part. I feel better, and I'm back in my healthy weight range.

I started this addiction at age six. I would steal from my parents dressers to buy candy on the sly at the neighborhood store, then I would eat it in a secret place until I was sick. Then I'd do the same thing the next day. I knew it was wrong.


Sound familiar ^^?

I wasn't over eating ribs and baked potatoes. It was sugar.

Longpasttime

There are some wonderful vegan desserts! Still sugar of course, but coconut milk and other dairy substitutes. Try "So Delicious" ice cream. you won't go back to regular

SoulKat

Food has certainly wrecked my life (in a way). I can't buy a bag of chips and say I'm only going to eat one serving at a time. I was more than 150 lbs overweight at one point. No problem with alcohol at that time. I lost 125 lbs. with weight loss surgery and then the addiction to food transferred to alcohol. I used to only be overweight. Now I'm overweight with an alcohol problem. Ack!

KAD

Funny this topic should come up because I was about to start a thread regarding the correlation between sugar and alcohol cravings. I get mixed messages from others when it comes to indulging sugar cravings. Some say it's a "gateway drug" to drinking, and others say as long as you aren't drinking, there's no harm. I guess it depends on the person, but as for myself, I'm much like @DrunkTX. Once I start allowing myself sweets, I get outta control with it.

For instance, I love Candy Corn. Once, during a time when I was sober, I bought a bag of it. By the end of the day, I'd finished the whole thing and bought another! The more disturbing aspect of it is if I indulge my sugar cravings, I do start feeling the urge to drink again. If I don't eat sweets, I feel much more in control of that. Plus, I just feel better physically without all those sugar highs and lows.