Sugar sugar sugar

Anyone else have an unrelenting addiction to sugar? Like fruits, chocolate, honey, etc. Any tricks that help wein yourself away from that? Sounds silly but I feel like I cannot control myself with these things, they are beasts! I feel like I should be getting worse reactions to them than I am currently, but then again, still on prednisone so who knows.

Hi Chrissy,

I think Prednisone is a big factor in this. I'm on pred now and i'm thinking about food and sugar fixes more often than I was before I was on pred. Just prepare lots of handy healthy snacks. Don't keep chocolate or sugary stuff in your home. Fill up on good carbs and porteins and fats. Keep hydrated. I find nut butter a good snack if i'm hungry/craving.

Lately I've been going straight into a jar of almond butter with a teaspoon - repeatedly :)

Post Edited (Jimbo NZ) : 8/13/2012 3:40:13 PM (GMT-6)

Before being diagnosed with U/C you could not get me to eat a piece of cake or pie or much anything else sweet. I just never had a taste for sweets. Now that I am on 60mg of Prednisone a day..........Wow, can't get enough. My local grocery store has these one pound tubs of ice cream loaded with butterfinger pieces, cookie dough, and so on. After I over-eat for dinner, it is possible for me to eat three of those tubs of icecream. Never ever thought I would be like this!

Chrissy, I just think to myself: It's not worth sitting on the toilet with d/blood/mucus... That's mostly enough for me to stay away from it.

Also when you're on SCD, you can bake the most delicious things but stay healthy. I love to bake with almond, peanut, hazel, and coconut flour. Cinnamon is allowed too. So is honey. <3 <3 <3

Try it out. It will tame your sweet tooth a little and you'll be glad in the end.

Also I see you're on cortisone right now. Just think you might be able to lay it off soon when you do your diet right.

I'd suggest start again with the chicken soup and go from there. Try out the recipes in the book or google for more. That's what helps me alot.

Hi Chrissy, I'm pretty disciplined with SCD/GAPS diet but i have had to modify mine recently. I found i was carb deficient and was losing too much weight. I have added some rice back in and i'm not sure I have the balance right yet.

I believe diet helps. And specifically that poor diet hinders. An ice cream binge would have me in trouble. Everyone is different though so it's important to discover what works for you. In order to do that i think you need to do some elimination diet to start with and then slowly add things back in. THis can be difficult to do so you have to be very careful about monitoring yoru weight and symptoms.

I still think i do things too quickly at times and it is difficult to keep that discipline 24-7.

I realize sugar isn't good for most. I have a hard time with fruits but I'm happy to report that I once did three straight weeks of almost no sugar, other than what might be in some normal "nonsugary" foods, and it helped me to an absolutely zero degree. Afterwards I began eating my sugars again and it did not worsen my condition at all. In other words, eating sugar or eliminating sugar has zero effect on me. I think some go overboard with the non-sugar routine. Everyone has to feel out their own diets and see what works for them and what doesn't because everyone is different. All I can say is don't find sugar guilty automatically unless you have had a trial on yourself and found it guilty.

garylouisville said...
I realize sugar isn't good for most. I have a hard time with fruits but I'm happy to report that I once did three straight weeks of almost no sugar, other than what might be in some normal "nonsugary" foods, and it helped me to an absolutely zero degree. Afterwards I began eating my sugars again and it did not worsen my condition at all. In other words, eating sugar or eliminating sugar has zero effect on me. I think some go overboard with the non-sugar routine. Everyone has to feel out their own diets and see what works for them and what doesn't because everyone is different. All I can say is don't find sugar guilty automatically unless you have had a trial on yourself and found it guilty.

I also do not notice any effect of eliminating sugar, like no effect except starving myself. But anything in excess is not good for the body. Im doing the paleo right now so im sticking to now sugar but i dunno how much i can keep this up for...

Chrissy....it sounds as though the pred is the driving force, as well as the extreme distress you're experiencing because of your family situation.

I think making some of the above suggestions could help.

q

stereofidelic89 said...
Oh man, I am the complete opposite ConquerUC. If I eliminate sugar + grains, in a matter of a day my bowels are perfectly formed, no trace of blood, no nothing. But I crave, crave, crave, sugar. Its definitely the yeast/candida overgrowth problem for me. =/

Everytime I read that when you eat healthy you feel better. Man, when I ate a normal diet (some junk and whatever), I felt great. I did sports etc.

Andre Agassi in his young years boasted he was on a McDonald diet. Basically, junk food and crap...He was pwning everyone back then.

Now, I eat healthy, gluten free and dairy free...and I don't even feel close to how good I felt before. this is stupid. Must be all Quincy's fault.

Andrina- The prob is I can't have eggs :( So I can't really bake anything lol.