Sugar Addiction

dnacol

Okay, I am trying to slowly eat more raw and less cooked. I don't have a problem giving up cooked meals, I do struggle very hard with desserts. I am the type of person who could eat sweets all day long and not even want anything else. Can anyone offer any advice? This is what is keeping me back! I would love to be able to give it up all together, but its extremely hard! Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

dnacol

what is cherimoyas ? thanks, I will have to look that up! Thanks for suggesting the 80/10/10 diet? Can either of you recommend a good book? thanks again!

vegirl

Maybe try dried fruits, fresh fruits, green smoothies.... If you like being in the kitchen, maybe you should check out Ani phyo's raw desserts...

http://www.amazon.com/Anis-Raw-Food-Desserts-Delectable/dp/0738213063

good luck, I love sweets too!

dnacol

thsi may sound like a dumb question, but how do I make dried fruits? Can I just purchase a simple dehydrator from the local Walmart and start dehydrating fruits? Is it healthy to eat as much sweets as you like if its raw?

dnacol

I too can feel a difference when I haven't ate any sweets. I still can't give them up...I struggle with chocolate!! Have any of you noticed a difference in your complexion since you gave up reined sugars?

flyercrazy

If you drink too many fruit smoothies as I have your blood sugar will sky rocket. I just had a physical and my blood sugar was borderline diabetic. This has never been a problem with me, I recently visited the same doctor a few months before and had no problem with high blood sugar, after using the Health Master for one month this is the result plus weight gain from all the sugar in the fruits. She said to drink one smoothie every other day and no more.

dnacol

Don't they sell some type of raw granola/candy bars?

dandilionsmile

i found this thread because of my sugar craving. i can eat 80% raw and still crash weekly (if not daily) over refined sugar sweets (bleugh! i feel so awful after). i never have any form of refined sugar in my apartment but other people's houses, my parents home, and the multitude of other refined sugar havens around me prove to be too much! i guess i should keep apples on me at all time or something. i would just like to not have the craving at all, it's so powerful.