Stopping Sweets - any ideas?

Hey guys,

I am having a hard time limiting the amount of sweets I eat.

It wouldn't even be so bad if I would eat 30g of sugar through sweets a day, but when I loose it I eat just much too much. Last time I ate sweets with the equivalent of 220g of sugar - in 2 hours. That's the amount you get from half a kg of chocolate (5 bars!). Whenever I have these cravings I just want to stuff the sweets in my mouth, I don't even care about the taste much. It's sort of a circle of self-destructive behaviour, where hate myself for eating it and then stuffing more into me, to destroy me more.

I would rather stop eating sweets for the rest of my life than having more of these days. I feel so anxious, on the edge, so unwell for the whole day whenever I do that.

So guys, do you have ideas that I can implement to stop myself from eating so much?
I tried to completely 'abstain', but as you might know from PMOing doing streaks is hard and relapses plenty.
I tried to limit it on every second day, but that often lead to relapse aswell.

Did you struggle with this aswell, do you have any tipps for me?

(on a side note: funnily I don't have concerns about my weight, I am rather slim. It is even so that when I eat a lot of sugar I rather loose weight than gain weight. But I still can feel how damaging the sugar is to my body and brain)

 

Yes it’s a struggle for me.

Here’s some suggestions:

-Go to the grocery store with a list and stick to it. (Of course leave sweets off the list).

-When you go to the grocery store make sure you eat first. Never go to the grocery store hungry. If you’re full you’re less likely to buy items you don’t need.

-Consider the taper off method. I dropped cakes first, then pies, and ice cream after that. Ice cream was hard to let go of but now I’m in the habit of avoiding it. Also my favorite ice cream (Tillamook) went up in price, more incentive to stay away.

Chocolate and soda I occasionally give in to still but have reduced intake quite a bit.

Good luck! I’ve lost weight since I’ve stopped having deserts as my main meals.

 

Also feeling depressed.

There’s been numerous times over the years I felt bummed out and said to myself F-it, I’m buying a half gallon of ice cream and going to eat as much as I can in order to feel better.

I’d feel great as I ate but felt like crap afterwards.

So beware of that as well.

 

Informius I love your avatar.

Did you make that?

Far as stopping sweets I dont have a clue. Love sweets myself

 

thanks @Hold it in ! No, I didn't made it myself, I got it in a small giftshop somewhere deep in Thailand

 

Thanks @lolos ! I have started to meditate roughly half a year ago and I must say that I slacked off the last month. I completely understand you on what you say with 'autopilot', I have the feeling often aswell. Thanks for bringing this to my attention again, it often deludes me and I don't think about it (as I am on autopilot at those times...)

So I might focus again on meditation, this sounds really reasonable!

 

I tried it yesterday and it is amazing - but also hard. Because it works and I know that it works. So whenever I am on autopilot and just want to grab something sweet I know that when I would stop to meditate I won't do it - But at that time I don't really want to not want it.... Does that make sense?

Anyway, thanks again for the reminder, it really helps. Now I simply have to do it