If You Have a Sugar Addiction, Perhaps It’s Time to Try Fasting

I’m a sugar addict, hard. I used to eat candy bars for meals and still struggle with cake, ice cream, cookies, and chocolate, not to mention the hidden sugars in everyday foods like ketchup and bread.

I find abstaining from sugar incredibly difficult. I’ve gone a few weeks before, but have eventually hit a wall or decided to just have a little bit, then I’m back on the milk shake journey and bringing all the sugar to my belly.

When I fast, I may crave sugar, but I don’t eat it. I find it easy to tell myself I’m not eating anything for x many hours and don’t find myself trying to cheat and eat sugar. Fasting has become almost too easy for me, at least short 24 hour fasts. I tried a 72 hour fast and that was difficult and the first time I made it to 42 hours was also difficult, but I’m finding at the correct times in my menstrual cycle* it’s easy for me to go 24 hours without eating.

Why is it that if I’m allowing myself to eat sugar seems like the thing to grab? I can’t tell you for sure, but I have mostly eliminated the sugar from my house, but still cling to healthy-ish items that have sugar in them like sunflower butter and jelly and bread. I used to keep candy bars and chocolate at my house, ice cream in the fridge, and know that is not the way for me to not eat sugar. I’ve created barrier to entry for sugar, but there was the week were I was pretty much off sugar, but asked my partner to take me to Dairy Queen four days in a row.