does anyone have advice for beating sugar addiction 💔 im so over it dude i just want to not feel like garbage
this was my move w nicotine: drink a sip of water every time you crave thing you’re trying to quit
not only did I really successfully get thru the big cold turkey hurdle but I was so dewey and hydrated omg
@time-travel-toke-up I wish you hadn’t left this all in tags! many valid points you’ve made!
its also soooo true that a sweets craving is often a deficiency of some vita or protein.
actually, we crave sweets even when we are dehydrated. every time I want something like candy or cookies I drink a glass of water first but that’s also cause im perma-dehydrated.
soo also love the take on fucking up the water like yesyes make it flavorful! I literally add tea thats actually just whole ass flowers like rose buds and chrysanthemum
I’m big on the “listen to your body” tip but sometimes your body needs a THING and signals you but you can interpret that wrong.
@gatsblergh if you are craving sugar and it’s actually sugar your body needs like for energy, supposedly the best thing to eat is an apple because your body can use those sugars immediately and doesn’t need to process them like it would with the sugar in sweets/baked goods. actually eating and apple will give you more energy than a cup of coffee.
if it’s an oral stim thing (@time-travel-toke-up also mentions in other tags) try some other snacky thing that isn’t sweets. I fuck up a bag of pistachios. they’re as much an activity as a snack- I know they’re spenny but personally, it’s often between a bag of chips or a bowl of pistachios, and in the end, the amount of chips I’d need to buy compared to pistachios does make the pistachios cheaper I the long run. I also buy that shit in bulk. also I know they’re salty not sweet snack but tbh, once you’ve had a palette cleanser for sweets, they become too sweet! I used to be a mad sweet toother but my palette eventually shifted to prefer salty when I stopped eating cookies for a snack and started eating like, olives. or literally just carrots. etc.
lastly I heard a tip from a friend who trained dogs and I am about to put it into practice w stuff in my life but: 3 days, 3 weeks, 3 months. for the first 3 days of changing a habit, its gonna be real hard. after 3 weeks you’ll see the light at the end of the tunnel. after 3 months, look around, everything can have changed by then. I’m using this atm w my phone addiction and damn now that I’m out of the glowing rectangle, not only can I BREATHE, but I look around at everyone else nose to phone and im like I literally feel so sorry for you.
