I’ve got a sugar addiction and my mind is filled intrusive thoughts and stress.

Could cutting down dramatically change my brain health?

I’m trying too cut sugar from my diet tomorrow . Want to finally do it.

I'm having a lot of trouble getting any close support in my effort to stop eating junk sugar and processed food. I know I can't rely on others to help me kick my sugar addiction, but I have told friends, family, and coworkers about my intention, and many of them actively roadblock my progress. Specifically, my mother and my partner both have strong sugar cravings and are absolutely not supportive or helpful.

My mother constantly tries to offer me sweets and will pack a bag of homemade cookies for me to take home every time I visit. She literally wafted a plate of desserts under my nose this Easter and said "Mmmmm, smells yummy right? 😜" ... and this was after a full week of reminding her that I was not eating sugary junk food.

My partner will load the shopping cart with desserts and leave them throughout the house, even after I've begged him to put them somewhere away from me -- not even "zero sweets in the house", just "please keep them somewhere that I don't know about". He just says "your body needs sugar" as if Oreos and Hershey Bars are important sources of glucose.

It's been extremely frustrating. I expect friends and coworkers to not really care or understand too much, but the two closest people to me are the two worst enablers and codependent sugar addicts that I know. It's like going to drug rehab where the nurses all smoke crack in the lounge.

If I'm being a brat here, then please call me out. I could probably use some blunt honesty and I'm not going to get it at home.

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TMI for periods and poop.

A few years ago my periods completely changed. They had been normal until one day they stopped for 5 months and then they were irregular. My doctor thought I had PCOS….so I took some medication to kick start it again but it never went back to normal. There were days I was bedridden because of the pain and exhaustion. Keep in mind before my period really didn’t bother me much except for the mess. Around the same time I started getting constipated to the point where I had to take fiber every day. I went through so much stomach pain and there were days I couldn’t eat because of the constipation.

Until I went sugar free a few months back. My periods are back to normal and I barley notice them besides the obvious flow. And I’m now pooping every day normally without fiber. I didn’t change anything except for going sugar free. This is kind of insane to me, I didn’t think that sugar would affect me this much. It’s almost like a poison. It’s kind of fucking scary because sugar is so addicting.

Cut out refined / added sugar 22 days ago. The candy habit was just getting too real after Halloween. I was clearly eating some feelings. Still going pretty hard on fruit. Haven't cut out alcohol.

Had to get my blood drawn for a life insurance exam, and for the first time in over a year, I'm no longer pre-diabetic. 5.6 A1C. Even that's a 90 day look-back which includes some decent candy consumption.

Proud of the changes I'm making so I can live long for my family.

Since, I’ve went down about 5 sizes! But I have hiked /moved more.. it’s the best thing I’ve done. I was eating so much sugar on the daily it was concerning and I didn’t even see it until I quit, I could eat Nutella etc from the spoonful and still look for sweet things… chocolate bars before bed for years!! I always had a little sweet selection of different sweet things to eat before bed.. I switched to fruit and have been obsessed ever since. The weight that has fallen off and that’s enough to actually keep me motivated (as well for health reasons), start today! It’s the best thing you can do for your body! Even now on rare occasions I have a bit birthday cake or a little bit chocolate I don’t even like it like how I used to, it just tastes overpowering sweet and artificial. People get shocked when I say I don’t eat sugar but honestly too much of us are addicted. Don’t even get me started on the reading the labels of things, so many things have unnecessary sugar it’s insane. Enjoy my rant 😂

Yesterday, I tried to set a goal to go a whole day without sweets. Then last night I ended up stopping on the way home and got a jumbo iced honey bun and a share size bag of m and m's . I downed those with a big glass of 2 percent milk.

I went to the doctor last week and my blood work was good. I am super overweight though and don't want to get any health conditions because of it. I am 6 foot 3 ,293 pounds.

I would like to lose weight. Sweets is keeping me from my weight loss goal (trying to get down to 230)...the cravings just get super intense, especially at the end of my day. I use sugar to treat myself for getting through the day.

I can't seem to quit eating sweets/junk food. I have tried to quit gradually for 5 years now. How do I just push through and stop giving into cravings?

In the past, I've stopped consuming each of them individually on multiple occasions, but never at the same time, until this time around. I found that when I quit one, my consumption of the other one would noticeably increase, and I'm tired of messing around with that. However, now that I'm not doing either (day 6 no sugar, day 5 no caffeine), my body seems to be freaking out a bit, so I'm not sure if cold turkey on both is ideal. But I'm also loathe to add either back in, as I know how badly they both affect me. Wondering if other people have experiences with quitting both simultaneously.

(french bread from a bakery)

Its day 2 and today i had some sweet potatoes, cod and cucumber tomato and onion salad for dinner but a bit of a problem, i added a drizzle of balsamic vinegar, not knowing it had sugar, will it make a difference or can i continue normally, i really wanna stay consistent and im trying to refrain from natural sugars aswell to maximise weightloss, would it be a problem?

no added sugars in the spaghetti and no sauce, just the cooked spaghetti and meat is ok and won’t cause period cramps?

*other than caffeine pills, for example when you are traveling in a foreign country and other than coffee/tea you make yourself, I am looking for something you can get on the go pretty much anywhere you are.

Due to autoimmune issues I can't handle aspartame well (or acesulfame k, which often goes with it), I tried going for months on diet soda's with various amounts which gave me 80% of the same inflammation issues I had before on regular soda (extreme brain fog, mood issues, energy issues,etc.), then just water and caffeine pills which completely cleared out all the issues in a few weeks with the same diet and then after a few months I reintroduced diet soda and the issues returned in those few weeks, but once again went away when I eliminated aspartame. I consume some electrolyte and vitamine supplements with other sweeteners like sucralose, but I don't seem to be affected by them at all.

Unfortunately diet soda's almost always contain aspartame, maybe I could try and find some with stevia or something, but I doubt I'd find them in smaller towns when traveling.

Currently my go-to is basic caffeine pills with water, but I don't want to deal with border controls and they are also not something you can buy at any small local store in most places. I guess that leaves those premade coffee's or tea's?

So I recently went 20 days without added sugar and just ate some sweets this weekend. I want to generally avoid sugar and make it a lifestyle. For example, eating sugar only on special occasions.

I also thought of having a cheat day maybe once a month. Were I just eat everything I‘ve been craving without thinking about the sugar. Im usually not a fan of cheat days but maybe its an option for sugar. Whats your opinion on this?

So my journey with quitting sugar is a bit bumpy, last week I went 5 days out of 7 without sugar, which is great, and even on day 6 and 7, I just binge ate a lot of food and a portion of them was sugary, it wasn't too much, I'd say around 30g or so. Why I did that could be a post in and of itself, but damn did sugar taste too strong now.

I had my usual energy drink which I stopped a long time ago, and it tasted so sweet, sugary, strong, and artifical. I don't even know how I can explain it. It had 11g of sugar per 100ml, so that's about 27.5g of sugar in one can (yeah wtf), and it hit me like a truck. The taste just felt overwhelming. Before this, I was only eating rice and chicken, and scrambled eggs with veggies and whole-grain bread.

Daily pledge NOT to consume any refined sugar.

Yes, it tasted really really good after 4 years!! Back to black tomorrow 😂

Hi everyone. End of November marks my 3 months of not eating added sugar. I haven’t had any artificial sweeteners or sugar free sodas, I was also very careful with sauces and would only have a little bit of soy sauce with my dumplings once a week. I have been eating berries with Greek yogurt almost daily so I think that’s what might have helped me with cravings. I initially didn’t really set a clear goal for myself and just wanted to be added sugar free and low carb for as long as I can so I am very happy with my progress!

BUT. Next week I’m going on a business trip to the Philippines and I have a feeling it would almost be impossible for me to not eat things with added sugar there. I think it’s fine but I’m feeling nervous and kind of scared to try sugar again. Can you guys please share your experiences with eating sugar for the first time after a long break? Did it make you feel sick? Is it hard to go back to being sugar free after? Did you enjoy sugar as much as you used to now that your taste buds are way more sensitive? Thank you!

Are there any sugar free gum brands sweetened with literally anything besides xylitol/sorbitol/other "ols"? I am sensitive to these but could do any other sweeteners. every single one seems to be alcohol sugars. Thanks for the help!

Are there any cookbooks out there that have purely sugar-free recipes? I don’t want to have to search the internet and print every recipe I like on there. I would love to have a physical book sometimes. Just personal preference.

If you guys know of any you can recommend, that would be great!

So today I started this diet solely for weightloss and FULLY jumped straight in (considering last night I thought it would be smart to have leftover birthday cake to celebrate the start of this) Today I ate porridge (no sugar and only a splash of low fat and no sugar almond milk) With a small dollop of 100 percent peanut no sugar peanut better, then wholeweat noodles with no sauce, just a vegetable stir fry with chicken for the flavour, tbh ive had no headaches n craving but I just wanna know if im on the right track and eating correct stuff, my mum says I can venture out and eat sweet potatoes and no sugar bars, but i dont want to find alternatives to chocolate etc etc bcs i think it might ruin my flow, also when does the weightloss kick in? Thanks for the help if anyone replies to this lol

9 fillings and £1.2k speaks for itself. If anyone else wants sugar free motivation just go to the dentist!

I quit in January for a month, and wholly agreed it was a good thing. Easier than expected and the benefits were felt, more energy, less cravings, not being ruled by food etc. But I still went back to having 'some' which quickly returns to whenever and however much I would want.

I'm going to quit again, because F having bad teeth. Ain't nobody got the money for that.

If you reading haven't quit, what are you waiting for? Do you have to receive bad news or a payment to be bothered to stop? Why not stop before you get the reality check you're probably waiting for? It'll come! But it would be better to stop before then. Why not start now? Why not choose to have a life more aligned with your values? I am choosing it now. So if anyone wants an accountability partner, let's chat!!

Hi, I have had lots and lots of issues with overeating and am trying to solve it. (For now, my BMI is normal in case that info is important)

One thing I have noticed over the last year is the relationship between my period with my eating habits and am wondering if anyone has any advice / tell me how unhealthy or dangerous what’s happening is (I am 100% sure its my eating causing my period not my period causing me to eat more btw)

For example, this weekend I felt super stressed so I ate like 2000 cals worth of chocolate each day, and lo and behold I wake up on Monday with my period starting despite ending my last one around 2 weeks ago. This is happening a lot this year and I’m wondering how dangerous it is to have almost double the periods I am meant to because of my eating habits :( On the months where I am able to restrain myself from sugar, I end up MISSING periods until I start eating again. Does anyone else experience this?

Started my no sugar journey since 6 days. Had a dessert in the 3rd day, so we can call it from 3 days.

Everyday seemed usual. No headache or as such. Energy levels are pretty same like the other days when I used to consume sugar. Obviously, I get the urge to add Sugar in Tea and Coffee. But I sit and talk myself to pass it.

Pros: Noticed that I can sleep better nowadays. Earlier if I'd slept in the day time, it's really difficult to sleep early at night. Now that is gone. Even if I sleep at day, I'm able to sleep early at night.

Daily pledge NOT to consume any refined sugar.

Hey, everyone! First time poster, I’m looking for some help. I’m making desserts for Christmas and have some people who are diabetic in my family I would like to include. Unfortunately, a few of these people are allergic to erythritol and allulose. I’m hoping someone may be able to point me in the correct direction to look. I’ve been looking online at recipes but they all seem to include the stevia and splenda. Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone,

I currently have an awful diet that alligns with my current situation in life well. Lots of soda, sweets and fast food.

I want to go sugar free for two weeks and see how I feel like with that.

Is there a guide somewhere here or anywhere on what to eat?

Can I eat fruit?

The goal is a change of mind, energy and also my skin.

What are your thoughts on this sweetener?

I quit sugar few days back but i have my birthday coming up soon and i was wondering if it would break my no sugar challenge if i made a cake at home that’s sweetened with dates? Would it ruin the progress/start cravings again?

I've lost around 2 pounds just by cutting out sugar and lowering carbs since the last few weeks so I decided to treat myself a little today. I stopped at just one helping and didn't feel any cravings afterwards so I think I'm doing quite well ! I don't think cutting myself off sugar completely and feeling guilty if I happened to accidentally consume some was healthy for me so this is what I'll be doing for now. I'll still be active on this sub since I'll be (mostly) sugar free.