Help! My new addiction

[Firefaery1023]

Since I stopped taking the pain killers, I can't stop eating ice cream sandwiches!!! Help, if I keep this up I am going to be the size of a cow!!  I know this is funny so you can take it that way.  If you have any suggestions I will glady take them, how can I stop?

[kittykat58]

ben and jerry's vermonty python....ohhhhhhhh.....

[bobby139]

I cant stop eating chcolate chip ice cream...on the pills i got down to 98 pounds and i am 5"3...god i wouldnt dare get on scale now but its like i have to have it..our brains a wierd arnt they.
bobby

[CadillacJack]

This will work: Buy Klondike bars instead!! Or, you might try substituting sugar free popsicles.

[paul300]

skinny cow brand is awesome, and i can really taste it.

[Firefaery1023]

OMG Jaqui!!!  I really hope I am not pregnant!!  Ian isn't even a year old yet!!

[allaboutmary]

I'll be back later. Must run to store and get rootbeer and icecream.  OMG brownies , I have a box of those I could make.  Talk about craving !!!!  lol  

[Jacqui805]

Well, that's a first!  Kinda sounds like what happens when you're pregnant...you start craving things you'd never otherwise eat...it's got something you are deficient in most likely...could be lots of things...

[spacecadette]

I've heard through the grapevine that opiate addicts often crave "sweets".....whatever the preference may be.  I too find myself often craving sweets.  I'll get up in the morning, and most of the time people want eggs and bacon, I want brownies.  THey'll have an omelette, I'll have a few cookies....It's quite strange.  how to change it??? It's really a lifestyle change altogether. I find that before I eat anything (breakfast, lunch, or dinner) I drink a bottle of water, and THEN I'll eat the meal. It helps a lot with what you eat and portions as you already feel quite full.  Also, I know it's lame but trimspa really helps me....if you incorporate diet, AND excersise, you'll be a lot less hungry and have more energy....

[Crispy]

leave is live sorry

[dove3053]

That's so funny you said that because I have the samething. With me it's Dairy Queen's caramel sundee's. Before I read this I was sitting here debating on whether to walk across the street and get one. I decided no to but to get a Klondike bar to eat tonight after dinner. To make matters worse there is not only a Diary Queen across the street but a Ben and Jerry's on the same side just a few doors down from me.

I say heck with it and don't worry about it. I think we will out grow this obcession. :)

Dove

[Crispy]

On a serious note though I think were drawn to things that give us happenies. Ice cream = sugar which = engergy which = i can do anything or just that mid day pick me up. Everything now a days are enhanced with vitamins and minerals are bodies are use to stimulants as a society. Even fitness models  and bodybuilders or just trainers take one type of stimulant from one day to the next and they leave some of the healthiest lives.

[Crispy]

Rootbeer floats are a little bit tougher because its the ice cream with the added soda ill search on web but im pretty sure youll have to turn to sugar cubes 6 times a day for awhile :D

[Firefaery1023]

grievingwidow-why don't you post and we can help you get rid of that opiate addiction and have you trade it!!

jaqui- Yes is does taste good but I used to not like ice cream.  I would rarely eat ice cream and then it was only in the summer and it was mint chocolate chip.  Now I will eat any ice cream I can get my hands on (or is in my freezer), but especially ice cream sandwiches!!

[Jacqui805]

'cause it tastes good...that's why!  

[grievingwidow]

I think you are very fortunate - I would give anything to trade my addiction to opiates for an "addiction" to ice cream.

[Firefaery1023]

Why is it ice cream that we are all drawn too?  We need to ponder this question.  I understand the chocolate addiction, it stimulates serotonin production to make us happy, but why ice cream??  Can someone answer this question?

[mimi1313]

Mine have been root beer floats with chocolate ice cream. Its os bad even my mom noticed how oten I eat them. Crispy, any idea on how to wean myself off of them!

[LONESOME]

Skinny cows ice creams there are really good and low calories I have the same problem I CAN'T SPOT EATING ALL DAY!! not just at night all day I have to put something in my mouth (that didn't sound good)

[Firefaery1023]

Crispy- That is great!!  A taper plan for my ice cream sandwiches and then I will have to deal with less withdrawals when I get to one!!! Haha!! I needed a good laugh, but seriously I might try that!
Cathy-Maybe we can try to quit smoking together and be eachothers support.  The worst part is in the car.  I have an hour ride to work and smoke 4 digarettes on my ride.  That makes 8 for just the ride.  I smoke a pack a day!!  I used to only smoke 4 a day.  It is just the pain pills, it sneaks up on you.  Maybe we should try a taper plan on the cigarettes.  What do you think?
Goingtomakeit- Thanks are you starting a CA meeting for all of us that have started eating in substitute of the pills!! lol!

[GoingToMakeIt]

It is so common for an addict to trade one addiction for another. Seek counseling. Try going to a CA meeting (carbs ananonymous :) Just say NO to carbs! Lmao

Seriously our bodies do become imbalanced in the sugars.

[cathy5841]

eeerr smoking??? i think i could quit pills 10 times again before smoking.  BUT, i really need to.  maybe we could form a quit smoking support group.  maybe i will join NEXT WEEK> lol

[Crispy]

break your sandwichs in half and try to wean yourself off with one half less each day :D

[Firefaery1023]

Yeah I am smoking a lot more now, since I quit the pain pills.  I have to slow down on them and think about quitting.  My husband and I have decided that we should stop and we are suppossed to talk about it tonight when I get home from work.

[ladyboop]

I think you are so right. we find a new addiction.. When I finish this, then I have to stop the smoking... not looking forward to that. I enjoy it. But my dad died of lung cancer... So I have to stop... One thing at a time........