IT'S SUGAR ! AND IT'S CONTROLLING MY LIFE, WELL SOMETIMES.
   I AM OPEN TO ANY SUGGESTIONS ON THIS BOARD TO HELP ME THROUGH THIS ADDICTION.

 I DON'T BELIEVE GIVING UP SUGAR COMPLETELY IS THE
IS THE ANSWER. IV'E TRIED ASKING FOR HELP THROUGH PRAYER MEDITATION ECT... I DO KNOW THE STRENGTH LIES WITHIN ME BUT, I WANT TO SEE IF THERE IS ANYTHING THAT CAN SEE ME THROUGH THIS.

 MAYBE CRYSTALS? OR SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES ?
I FIGURED IT IS AN EMOTIONAL THING. MY DAD ALWAYS SAID ICE CREAM MAD ME LAUGH , NOT SO FUNNY ANYMORE .

THIS MAY SOUND STRANGE TO YOU BUT I ONCE HAD A VISION OF MYSELF AS A SMALL CHILD (IN POLAND?) WE WERE VERY POOR, ALL
WE HAD TO EAT WAS BREAD AND MAPLE SYRUP.

WELL AS A KID I WOULD PUT SYRUP ON BREAD AND RUN UP TO MY ROOM SO MY MOM WOULDN'T SEE ME. MAYBE THIS HAS SOME CONNECTION TO MY LIFE NOW. ALTOUGH I KNOW ALL THIS I STILL
CAN'T SEEM TO FIGHT IT OFF COMPLETELY.
                                               WOVEN

I am sending you one of my HUGE hugs - hope it helps a little.  When people who are in recovery come into my shop looking for help, I suggest that they have a piece of Amethyst as this is excellent for helping people to overcome addictions ... perhaps this may help you.

Brightest Blessings

Sarah

(((HUGS)))  for  you  Woven

I don't know about you but I had a problem with sweets as well. The bottom line for
me  was a recurring yeast problem... 'Candida'
This one is  a real big problem,  not just for women either. This yeast feeds off of
sweets... the cravings are relentless.  I would be real crabbyand a chocolate bar
magically fixed this mood.  

As I did a Candida cleanse, (from the health food shop)  plus  no sugar, not even
 fruit for three weeks, extra weight  melted away and I lost the taste for sugary
treats.  It wasn't easy...  Addiction is the correct word to describe this hankering
for sweets.  The trick was not to let myself feel hungry...  I ate raw vegies between
meals.

Good Luck to you hun....


Evie

THANKS GUYS,
 I DO HAVE A PIECE OF AMETHYST THAT I USE FOR MANY OTHER
THINGS. I WILL CARRY IT AROUND WITH ME MORE OFTEN.

I ALSO DID THE CANDIDA CLEANSE BUT I COULDNT SEEM TO COMPLETELY GO WITHOUT THE SUGAR. SO I FIRST NEED TO GET ENOUGH STRENGTH TO FOLLOW THAT AGAIN .

MAYBE I NEED SOMETHING FOR WILLPOWER FIRST. WELL I FEEL I
AM GETTING CLOSER.

 HERE'S THE PROBLEM
I KNOW I HAVE AN ADDICTION
 I THINK I KNOW HOW TO OVERCOME IT
MAYBE I NEED A 12 STEP PROGRAM OR
SOMETHING.

OF COURSE THIS MAY SEEM SILLY TO SOME,BUT IT'S DELAYING ME SPIRITUALLY AND I NEED TO OVERCOME THIS IN ORDER TO ADVANCE.
                              WOVEN

Hi woven, Big hugs to you. I have exactly the same problem. I grew up with it so it's really hard to remove this addiction. My suggestion (even though I am unable to do it myself) is... When you get a craving eat a piece of fruit. Banana, watermelon, apricots, peaches, plums are good. Try to reprogram your tastebuds with fruit. It takes a while till your tastebuds and brain are reprogrammed so if you start small ie. 1 piece of fruit instead of sugar every day for one week, then two every day the next week. Each week increase your fruit by one per day and remove the sugar until you are only eating fruit and stay with that. One of the things I do is make fruit milkshakes. I don't know if you drink milk. My recipe is 1 banana, 1 or 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon raw sugar, drop of vanilla and 500 mls milk. Put it all in the blender and enjoy.
If you have too much sugar on something start to take some out.

I've just found out I could be all wrong about the fruit but it is a start.

I have just googled "how to stop sugar cravings" and one of them said stop eating fruit. This would be cold turkey. Another one suggested subsituting sugar with fruit. It's up to you which way you want to do it.

Allow your guardian angel and other angels into your life to help you find the way that is best for you.

wikihow.com/Stop-Sweet-Cravings is one of the sites with good info.

You have to work out if you are removing sugar of all kinds completely or you are changing your habits of processed sugar into something more healthy. God made fruit so I'd say it is Heavenly to eat fruit. It is the way it's been grown and processed that could be a problem.

Over the last year I have been drinking Morning start juice. (from supermarket) This one has apple, orange, pineapple, mango and passionfruit juices with vitamins C & A & folate. This juice has no added sugar and no preservatives. At first I didn't like it that much but kept drinking it. I love it so much now, I don't want to stop drinking it. I can easily drink the 2.4 litre bottle in one day and usually don't have any cravings for sugar. I just drink juice when I feel like I need sugar.

After reading some of the information I have just seen. I think it may be easier for me to curb my cravings as I know what symptoms to look for. Thankyou for your help.

Love and light to you Libby

Ps You have really opened my eyes to what I have already done to remove sugar from my life. It isn't gone completely but I am managing to control it. My whole life used to be sugar absolutely everything except dinner. Now I love curries, fried rice and alot of other foods that are good for me without being sweet based. Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou. If you need help along the way, I am happy to be here for you.