Today marks eleven months sugar freedom and with that the start of my recovery journey. I would have never made it without all of you here. Thank you so much for being here 
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Congratulations on your 11 months Aga!
And 4 days now!!
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Look at you! Staying off the stuff and roaming the beaches!
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Way to go!! Told my hubby today I think eliminating sugar actually let you taste good food better. I believe sugar dulls your taste buds!
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Ahhh i saw a recent post direct another user here. I feel like i didnt intially go to sweets in early sobriety but im struggling with it now for sure
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Man i saw your energy drinks and candy meals on the foodies thread from back in the day. I see you making better choices.
Dude its chocolate for me. I was never crazy about chocolate and now its like i cant get enough. I feel like i lose my self will and eat too much to feeling ill. I think if not addressed it could be addiction jumping.
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Thanks for your kind words @Bluekoolaid
One year everyone! I am so happy to be here! My life is so much better without ‘solving’ life’s problems with addiction 
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Way to go Aga!
@acromouse
A whole year no sugar!
So is your no sugar like 
no sugar? I know you take it pretty seriously. Where as mine is like no sweets or desserts cookies, or chocolates, ice cream, sodas etc… and if sugar is in something I don’t care.
Just curious.
I do feel a bit of a fraud saying no sugar. But this one is my own journey. Not like with booze and drugs where there is absolutely no wiggle room. It keeps me accountable.
Great job on the 1 year!!
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Thank you friend 
The thing for me with sugar is, it triggers me as a substance. So even in very minisucle amounts I will get the cravings and that feeling that I can‘t get enough. And this will keep tormenting me for days on. I can‘t do moderation with sugar 
So yes no sugar nowhere, never.
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That’s what I thought.
Extra extra proud of you.
That has got to take some work.
I mean over here in America almost everything has sugar in it. Or some form of sugary sweetener or preservative.
Good for you
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Wow! How do you do that Aga with prosessed food? There are small amounts of sugar in almost everything? Are you making everything yourself? Like pastasauce and stuff like that?
Ps congratulations for the 1 year milestone! 
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I’m the same way.
I do have some sugar on occasion.
I do not have any ‘hidden sugars’ in my food. My food is pretty sugar-free. For one thing I don’t eat that much packaged food.
When I have sugar, I know that I’m going to have it. As in I am going to have that ice cream. Going to have that piece of cake. And less and less power bar which I keep in the car. They only mess me up if they’re in the house. I’ve started to carry yogurt in the car so I’m not wanting/needing the power bar.
The best is if it’s somewhere away from my home and I can only have a little bit and then get away from it, but it still affects me. It will still make me want more food in general for a while.
On a normal basis, the most sugar I get is from fruit.
Congratulations again on the year!
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@acromouse That’s so impressive! I’m very very proud and happy for you!
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Many thanks to everyone
@SoberWalker @Dazercat
I think the thing with food for me is that I grew up and spend my childhood in an environment where there was no UltraProcessedFood available and the only processed food was the one we did ourselves or got from neighbours. Food for me ment either plants which came from the work and the fields of those around me, or from the animals that lived with us.
When we moved to western germany I embraced all the packaged food there. It was all so bright, shiny, new, convenient, and exciting. But I realized quite quickly that this was not food. It did not taste like food, it did not fill me like food, and it made me feel strangely.
So when I started realising that I have a problem with food, it came to me that it’s not food I have a problem with. I have a problem with certain products. I then found out that these products are explicitly designed and made in a way as to make you addicted. And apparently I did get addicted to them.
So for me food once again means the same thing it ment in my childhood: fresh produce, fresh meat from the butcher’s, eggs, grains, minimally processed fats. If it comes in a package, it usually is not food but a product. And my body knows the difference and will protest.
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One of the first posts that I made on the site was about how certain products actually had addicting type substances in them. I haven’t read it since I posted it, so I’m not sure this second how scientific it was, but I certainly related to it.
And can certainly see it in myself with sweets and some other foods.
I’m going to be a houseguest somewhere next week and I don’t want to put a label on me and my eating and I’m capable of eating what I want to.
No labels, just my personal preference. My hostess said oh well we can go get a hamburger. 
I have maybe ordered two hamburgers in my whole life and that’s really the truth. Actually she said we can go get a veggie burger. I don’t want a veggie burger. I want vegetables… and well, we can go get pizza. The last time I had pizza was in Lake Isabella, California in 2018. Maybe I’ve had a piece since. But that’s never been big on my radar.
Anyway, I have never wanted what I eat or don’t eat revolving around me as far as others are concerned, I can fit in anywhere in my own way. Personal preference.
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My first post. March 2021
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Well I got this, this morning.
7 months no added sugar according to me 
I never posted my 6 months because I felt like a fraud. But this is my no sugar journey. And it’s on my terms. For me it’s not like alcohol or drugs. Which of course is complete abstinence.
Anyway I’ve felt like a fraud because I do eat the Russell Stovers no sugar pecan delights and some of their others. Sometimes I have too many of them. Sometimes I have just 2 or even zero many times. I do put a little bit of that organic natural sugar in my cappuccino 1/2 packet. Sometimes. Not all the time. And only if there is the organic natural available. Nothing else. And I’ve had pancakes infrequently but with real maple syrup or honey. Although I’ve had some bites of wifey’s pancake madness with regular syrup.
But…. And this is a big but ……
I have not had any deserts after dinner. Or lunch. Pies or ice cream or gelato. No donuts or sugary pastries. Just a croissant or 2. No candies or real chocolate. And. I’ve made it through the Holidays with no pies or deserts and all the sweet stuff we shovel into our mouths for the Holidays.
So with this 7 Months……Ya … I’m fucking proud of my own sugar journey. I would have loved some pumpkin pie or wifey’s gorgeous apple or cherry pie.
I got a birthday coming up and I’d really like a piece of carrot cake. But I really want that year of no sugar. My Way.
I guess I’ll see what happens. Today. I’ll take this 7 months proudly.
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@Dazercat Congrats on 7 months, Eric. You are absolutely right to celebrate. Your journey, your rules 
400 days today for me.
I remember how last year the whole Advent and Christmas period was so difficult. I felt triggered all day for weeks. I had asked my family to hide all their sweets.
This year I did not care even a bit. My brain has adapted. It does not get triggered by the sight of sweets.
Such a relief and freedom.
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