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This white sugar is toxic and weird, tried and tested today

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charlie000

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After a month of Keto/LCHF and refraining from direct sugar, biscuits, chocolates. I was gifted a box of chocolates at work, I took them home and could not resist.

I ate 3 small chocolates about 10g of carbs each.

I literally felt sick after eating them. The sugar tastes so weird, it's beyond me how people enjoy this. It is indeed a 'fix' like a drug that so many people are addicted to, including me.

There was a point where I could not go without chocolate in one day. I'd eat so much, but now it's been a month without it and my body has changed so much and so have I.

I can't even bare to look at it. I am strong enough not to BUY and eat it. But as I was gifted it I had some, and this is a lesson for me not to ever go back as I had been wondering why it was so bad?

Now I know.
 
Part of the magic of "curing" our old addictions.. although bread like texture is still a trigger for me even after 3 years of not having it..
 
bulkbiker said:
Part of the magic of "curing" our old addictions.. although bread like texture is still a trigger for me even after 3 years of not having it..
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It is no longer a whole addiction for me. But in this case, I've realised what gets me. I find it difficult to say no to someone, because it's food. I've been raised to say yes to food, because there's so many poor people around.

At the same time, I feel guilty gifting it to someone else, because it's bad for you. The rest of it went in to the bin and I will do this in the future.

I have been using excuses like "I'll have it with my lunch" but I gave in this time.
 
charlie000 said:
I was gifted a box of chocolates at work, I took them home and could not resist.
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I have had people gifted give me packets of cigarettes as a gift. I have thrown them straight in the bin, because one puff / inhalation of a cigarette will have me addicted to nicotine again.
 
Tipetoo said:
I have had people gifted give me packets of cigarettes as a gift. I have thrown them straight in the bin, because one puff / inhalation of a cigarette will have me addicted to nicotine again.
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Have you ever given in?
 
Tipetoo said:
No, because I have the will power not to in 27 years of non smoking.
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I am so happy for you. It has been a solid month for me until this. But I am 100% confident that I will not go near them again, and this has made me stronger to not consume gifted chocolates again.
 
@charlieOOO I had a similar experience and now I can’t remember what food. It was so sickly sweet that I couldn’t go on eating it. That has made it so much easier to ignore sweet things. As far as chocolate though...I discovered it’s the chocolate I’m addicted to, not the sugar. I am just now in a position of having to give up my morning 90% squares, because the caffeine in them raises bg’s across the board. I am not happy one little bit, no ma’am!
@bulkbiker so a low carb bready texture would cause you to want more of that bread, or would you want to turn to “the hard stuff”? I make a couple of very bready texture dark quick breads, and as they are a little hard to eat, I don’t much overeat them. I do love the flavors though. I was never a “gottagottagottahavethatbread” person except when I used to make yeast breads revularly for toast and sandwiches. I can still smell the Annadama bread toasting, and that was back in the late 70’s!
@Tipetoo CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Recovering nicotine addict is every bit as important as alcoholic in recovery.
 
zauberflote said:
@bulkbiker so a low carb bready texture would cause you to want more of that bread
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I made some "keto bread" and my off switch failed completely and I had to eat the lot immediately.. no way would I go anywhere near the "hard stuff" .
Edit to add when I was a youth I would buy a loaf of bread on my way home from school and eat the lot without anything on it.. a true breadaholic.
 
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charlie000 said:
I am so happy for you. It has been a solid month for me until this. But I am 100% confident that I will not go near them again, and this has made me stronger to not consume gifted chocolates again.
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I’m sure you’ll manage this. I’m nearly two years from my type 2 diagnosis. Before I used to eat at least one chocolate bar per day whereas now I only sometimes eat 2 x 100% chocolate buttons after dinner and that is plenty.
On Mother’s Day just gone, my kids who are away from home clubbed together and had a bouquet of flowers delivered. In the package was a complimentary box of chocolates (my kids were mortified as they would never have deliberately sent chocolates). However I immediately just gave them to hubby without a second thought. How times have changed!
 
My first 'proper' job was in a food research laboratory where we used to mill test samples of wheat into flour. This would then be baked into bread. At the end of each day we could take home as many loaves of warm, freshly baked bread as we could carry. First half of the loaf would be eaten on the way home plain. The second half still warm with a load of butter. No need for dinner. Had no idea what the consequences of this would be 20 years later!
 
I get the occasional complimentary box of chocolates in my name from the pickers with our online shopping order. I pass them on to my partner who is not diabetic.
 
Tipetoo said:
I have had people gifted give me packets of cigarettes as a gift. I have thrown them straight in the bin, because one puff / inhalation of a cigarette will have me addicted to nicotine again.
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wow you had a fearsome habit with a 100 cigs a day! congrats for giving that up cold turkey.
Mercifully i had the availability vaping to help me do it.
The bit that interested me in your post was the your comment about one puff and you would be at it again.
This is why i think vaping is so good as it replaces the habit with a safer one.
Now i have no fear of cigs I can even take a puff enjoy it but have no elevated emotional response to it.
I enjoy vaping for the ritual habit ,plain old nicotine in the liquid is realy there for flavour more than anything else.
As for sugar substitutes since changing my diet to LCHF I have lost the taste for sweet stuff like many on here.
What i have found is that not eating turbocharged sweetness is that i find a lot of things sweet tasting that previously were not.
Strangest one for me is black tea tasting sweeter than tea with milk
 
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