Thank you Kathleen for your advise.

I will try and slow down. I am finding mornings are fine. I feel so much better with my breakfasts and although I feel a little hunger around 11 am I can usually go through to lunch at 12.30. I work in a school so I have a school dinner and usually find myself eating a dessert. Then I feel very tired in the afternoon and start to crave sugar about 4pm. I have just eaten another bag of toffees even though I vowed I would only eat sugar with meals today.

Why do I do this to myself. I have even managed to stop drinking for 7 months but I cant do this at all. I feel like I am going crazy.

Amanda

: delighted that you found the forum.
: Let me respond right in your
: note....

: Please can you help me. I am a

: well this is a very normal thing to
: shift from alcohol to sugar.

: perhaps joining the step two list
: would be helpful.

: yes, sometimes this happens...

: when you get tired of all that, you
: will focus on just doing the steps
:

: nope that is NOT the way to do it.
: stopping sugar all at once
: will just make you crazy.

: Please do NOT do this.

: I am piling

: I know you feel desparate, but that
: is biochemical. Work on step two.

: What you need is stability. The steps
: will give you that. Going off of
: sugar cold turkey will only make
: you crazy.

: Don't think about doing step 3 yet.
: But you can just have your sugar
: at meals.

: Have your sugar with meals and work
: on step two Join the step
: one list right now and check that
: your breakfast is set. Then join
: the step two list.

: Keep writing here.

: warmly,

: kathleen