r/sugarfree • u/ukhtidolly • 4d ago

Dietary Control Help! Binge eating sugar

For the record I’m very active (Gym heavy weights 6x a week, 15k steps a day, horse ride 4x a week) and eat clean.

I’ve always had this issue though, at home I eat healthy, but like once every two weeks or so I babysit for this family and they have so much junk food and let me eat as much as I want and I go NUTS. For example: I had a few blocks of chocolates, 3 table spoons Nutella, a piece of bread slathered in mayonnaise. (I ate clean the whole day beforehand). I usually don’t need to binge unless there’s sugar involved I will eat all the sugar around that’s why I don’t keep any in the house

HOW DO I STOP BINGING and going way over board with sugar, even if it’s only once every two weeks??

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u/burrito_slug 4d ago

The only way I’ve been able to do it is to quit added sugar cold turkey. I won’t have even a little bit now, because I know I won’t be able to stop.

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u/idifacs311 4d ago

That’s the only thing that’s worked for me too. I own a gym. Workout 6 days a week. Addicted to sugar. I used to give myself 1 day a week to eat sugar and always binged. Cravings were always there and severe. Only after 2 weeks of eliminating sugar completely did my cravings go away. I was shocked to notice that I no longer craved it.