Advice on how to stop eating so much sugar

once you cut it out you’ll stop craving it. not keeping it in the house helps. after that, fruit is great or stevia.

I am a sugar addict. I can do well all day, eat a well balanced and small portioned supper, but I always want a treat at night. It can be cookies, cake, pie, etc. I just want my treat at night, but I wish I could stop. I would like to lose 10 lbs.

Keep your mouth busy with sugar free gum. Bonus points for mint flavour, anything sweet will taste weird afterwards anyway.

This is the only addiction i cannot break. It’s more difficult than anything else. If i stopped sugar, no matter the time passed i still had cravings (addiction didn’t lessen with time), so eventually my willpower always snapped and i binged or at least broke the diet. Whereas any other habits or addictions become easier to avoid the more time passes (less and less willpower is required untill a new habit is formed).

If you eat a lot of sugar, you can feel a bit crappy for a week if you go cold turkey, but maybe try cutting back (ie swap to sugar free sodas or water, eat fruit instead of cookies/desserts, quit candy). You'll feel a million times better in the long run.

I used to eat sooo much sugar. From juice/sodas to eating multiple sugary snacks like cookies and ice cream all in one day. I was able to reduce my sugar intake drastically by swapping for sugar free alternatives. So zero sugar sodas, low sugar juice, low carb cookies etc. I still like to eat a sweet snack but now it’s only once a day vs once every couple of hours.

Slowly cutting back on my intake and making smart meal swaps is what helped me to actually stick to eating healthier and not go back to my old ways. Definitely recommend this route vs cutting everything out all at once

Sugar is like a drug... I'm sure you've heard that. So spend 3 days not eating sugar and going through the withdrawal. I have been there, my body craves it when I take it regularly but when I stop so do the cravings.

I bought a large variety of flavored seltzers. Whenever I crave sugar, I pick a seltzer and drink it. If I still feel like something sweet after, I’ll go for walk or do something else to distract myself. Sometimes I’ll have berries or an apple with a fat or protein like a small piece of hard cheese or a small bit of peanut butter. If it’s after dinner, I’ll make a cup of decaf chai or mint tea. It’s tough at first but after a week or two, you get used to it and the cravings get less intense.

Eat fibre.

Get the glucose goddess 4 week book and just see how cravings disappear. About ($50 Canadian) but a drop in the bucket to health. Stack meals, eat a proper savoury breakfast, vinegar, move.

I found the withdrawals and adjustment too much to do all at once. I started by subbing sugar free stuff for regular wherever I could - if you don't like the taste of sugar substitutes, try using 1/2 sugar free and 1/2 your regular stuff. Then I added fruit where I could, upped my protein to cut down on cravings. Then I started making things less sweet - cut sugar/ sugar substitutes in about half, cut my regular yogurt with plain yogurt, etc. By then regular desserts and stuff started tasting too sweet and the whole thing got easier.

Don't buy it

You need to look at how you’re having sugar first. Is it in chocolate, ice cream, drinks, biscuits.. where is it coming from? Once you know that, try to replace it. For example, if you have it in tea, try swapping it for sweeteners instead. Do like for like to start with, then reduce that too over time if you like. The worse thing you can do is to go cold turkey and cut it out completely.

Don’t buy it, don’t have it in the house at all, cut it out, and only eat fruit. Once I cut out sugar, fruit became enough for me

I used to have this and the best way to stop is just to quit. However since it's easier said then done I used to switch sugar for other healthier sweet alternatives. So if I craved sugar I drank tea with honey or took a teaspoon of honey or something like that. Many fruits and some veggies are also pretty sweet, so these can also be great to switch with.

i used to love sweet iced tea

then when i learned about calories and fitness in general, i started cutting it out and swapped with unsweetened iced tea

for a brief period i got bored with the unsweetened and used stevia. but it's such a hassle to remember having it with me going around lol so i just dont and go back to unsweetened

now i don't really want sweet tea anymore

i think the best move is to just quit cold turkey, that's easier than swapping it with stevia as you will still have the cravings and no control when it comes to prepacked juice or cakes etc

Eat the right kind of sugar, fruits and occasionally have some 100% juice.

The amazing thing about the body is how adaptive it is. So it’s about training your body to get used to lower amounts. And do it slowly depending how hard it might be for you.

I used to drown my pancakes w maple syrup. (Maybe drown is hyperbole) but I saw how calorie dense maple syrup and honey were so I started using less. A drizzle here and there on Greek yogurt or pancakes. 🥞 you also realize fruit like berries are naturally sweet so opt for those. Apples are incredible sweet, experiment w different kinds of apples. 🍎 I like sugar bee (super sweet) honey crisp, envy, lady Alice, sweetango, etc. even mixing up the kinds of apples you get or eat keeps you interested. Anyway enough about apples.

Once you understand how wasted calories are in sugar and sugar alternatives (honey, agave, maple syrup) and you start to use less your body enjoys the amount you give it.

As a second option I found myself more open to drinking diet sodas for something sweet but I only do it rarely (when I go to the movies (once or twice a year) or a fast food spot which might be 1-2 a month. Lately I will pick up a Diet Cherry Coke when I’m craving something sweet so I’d say I have a diet soda once every week. While the jury is out or more so constantly arguing if diet soda is “good for you” let’s just say it’s not. No big deal. Food isn’t good or bad so there. But you’d have to drink 14 cans a day to register something potentially harmful. But here is what I believe and read in a few books (notably how to eat by dr mark bittman) is drinking diet soda not good for you well the answer is “instead of what?” Water is really all you need so if you are choosing diet soda instead of water then “yes?” Diet soda isn’t good for you. But if it’s instead of alcohol or real soda, etc. HOWEVER… life isn’t this black and white. Sometimes you want real soda or a glass of wine. Real health is about moderation and what’s moderation? Well it means different things to different people but in the end if you do your best to include more variety in your diet you’ll realize you have no choice but to be moderate in what you eat.

So as a final suggestion I’d recommend including new novel foods or expanding what you choose (different fruits to try - pineapples, Asian pears, blackberries, and beets, jicama, peas (all sweet)

Good luck!

Just recently replaced ice cream (which i LOVE) by homemade sorbets (basically frozen fruits blended into a sorbet hehe). Works amazingly with mango and is sooo sweet and full of its natural nutrients and fiber!

I cut it completely for 8 weeks, first part was pretty hard, but my taste adjusted and now normal sweetness is back (and most stuff is just way way too sweet, they add sugar to almost everything it is obsceen). Didn’t go back to eating sugar after.

I did also cut sweeteners, besides tasting terrible they also keep you used to the high level of sweetness.

First step for me was cutting out full sugar drinks, substitute Pepsi for Pepsi max, sprite for sprite zero etc, drink your coffee with sweetener instead of sugar. If you eat a lot of sweet snacks you can sub those out too, I tend to find the lower sugar snacks are more filling too so I don't want them as much, protein bars are a good example, many of those are low on sugar but as far as snacks go they're really filling, many of the ones you can get off the shelf have a lot of calories in them but because they're so much more filling than a regular chocolate bar that really isn't gonna matter.

I'm no expert and I'm new to this myself but this has been my experience so far, my word isn't gospel but I've found it works for me as of right now.

Edit: On top of this, I've always noticed I want a snack after a workout, so again, eating a protein bar, oat bar, flapjack or whatever helps me avoid getting that craving

Honestly, you have to go cold turkey. It's hard at first but once you get use to it you won't crave it. Avoid sugar-free sweetners also b/c they won't help you get over the cravings. It sucks but you can do it! I noticed how my clothes fit better when I'm off it also.

Once you stop eating it you’ll stop craving it as much. Odds are you always will some. Moderation is key just as with most things

Intermittently fast. When you’re in ketosis, sugar cravings end.

3x25g protein powder drinks a day.

if not enuf protein: protein gives satiety and if lacking protein body doesnt know that sugar isnt protein so it's trying compensate the protein stuff too

keto helps too eventually, might not feel like eating sugars at all

By stop eating it.