Your experience may vary but I’ve done 12-week weight loss cycles where I ate no sweets and I never lost my desire to eat sweets. I’m on week 6 of a 6-week weight loss cycle right now, I had pretty strong cravings on week 2–3 and they significantly subsided by week 4 but they’re still there.
I do still eat fruit, which may be enough to maintain my sugar cravings, but if your goal is to improve health then I think it’s a bad idea to cut out fruit. And anyway I don’t get cravings for fruit, I get cravings for artificially-sweetened foods.
I’ve heard at least one person report that they entirely lost their sugar cravings when they stopped eating sugar. So it works for some people it just doesn’t work for me.
Oh, that’s disappointing. I once got rid of my craving for sweet drinks just by completely quitting drinks with sugar and sweeteners for a while. Unfortunately I since had a relapse. It’s easy to get addicted again, especially when another drug is involved, as in energy drinks. The randomization (gamification?) approach may work better in some cases.
Your experience may vary but I’ve done 12-week weight loss cycles where I ate no sweets and I never lost my desire to eat sweets. I’m on week 6 of a 6-week weight loss cycle right now, I had pretty strong cravings on week 2–3 and they significantly subsided by week 4 but they’re still there.
I do still eat fruit, which may be enough to maintain my sugar cravings, but if your goal is to improve health then I think it’s a bad idea to cut out fruit. And anyway I don’t get cravings for fruit, I get cravings for artificially-sweetened foods.
I’ve heard at least one person report that they entirely lost their sugar cravings when they stopped eating sugar. So it works for some people it just doesn’t work for me.
Oh, that’s disappointing. I once got rid of my craving for sweet drinks just by completely quitting drinks with sugar and sweeteners for a while. Unfortunately I since had a relapse. It’s easy to get addicted again, especially when another drug is involved, as in energy drinks. The randomization (gamification?) approach may work better in some cases.