Help a sugar addict

There's a lot of ways, some work for different people. For me one that worked is each week I'd remove one thing. So after 10 weeks for example, you have hopefully removed all the bad items you're addicted to. Naturally, I saved the things I like most until the end.

For me that worked a little, but I always give in. I fell down the stairs 2 weeks ago and injured my leg, I was too ashamed to admit to my partner I wanted junk and I couldn't walk myself. So I went 3 days with absolutely nothing bad. And I admit it was hard. I bloody hated myself, I was torn between how disgusted I was that I want it so badly I was going to try and walk on my ankle vs "it's just food stop". And I have not been perfectly successful in the 2-3 weeks since then. But I haven't bought any chips (crisps?), lollies, chocolate. I want to still. Some days worse than others. Some days i tell myself "well it'd just be this one chocolate".

I found a tea, that's made from like the kakao or whatever, so it tastes like chocolate but nothing is bad about it. It helps satisfy some cravings. You can add honey to tea to give a bit of sweetness. There are tablets that can help reduce sugar cravings apparently. I think I remember reading if you crave something salty, you're lacky in a certain element. And if you crave sugar you are lacking in another element. So taking those supplements can help.

You can make things like a 2 ingredient banana pancake, top with some plain yoghurt. It's like having dessert but it's healthy. You aren't going to find things you'll want to substitute though, we have a problem, and that problem is in our brains and we know the difference. And the substitute is not what we want. We need to work on the problem itself.

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