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mytrueloves

@sliztee Honestly this is the hardest thing I've ever done as a parent. She's completely inconsolable and there's nothing I can do but make her live through it. 

Also sorry for the double post, computer is glitchy.

knottieamusements

@mytrueloves - Wow, and I thought I am a nightmare when hangry.  I’m so sorry you are going through this.  It is hard enough as an adult to try to cut sugar when you know why it is happening, I can’t imagine trying to help a child with that when they don’t understand.  

sammierose464

That can be so difficult. I know my parents have gone through eliminating red dye 40 from my sister's diet and that was hard. I wish you lots of strength!

SweetSweetTooth

@mytrueloves I have done a sugar detox before and let me tell you fat is your friend. give her cheese it helps with the cravings. Also avoid carbs as that partially (?) turns to sugar in your system. From experience cold turkey sucks but it is the best to deal with. Sugar is like a drug and is very addictive and I do best when it is totally out my system. I do eat carbs but didn't eat all the carbs while detoxing  I also eat fruit. Maybe try that with her? Stock up on Cuties and other easy to grab and eat fruit she likes. Try new fruit she hasn't had before? Make it fun as everyone in the family tries the new fruits together. Also my quick on the go just fruit snacks (when fresh doesn't work) is the cliff fruit twists or little fruit bites called just the fruit. 

mytrueloves

@SweetSweetTooth thank you for your input! We're actually supposed to be switching to a somewhat Keto diet this weekend (full keto for DF, modified for me, and keto-ish for DD) so we're dumping all our carbs and stocking up on good foods either today or tomorrow. Thanks for the tip on the fatty snacks, I can definitely do that for her. And I'm willing to do anything that helps!

cjx95

@mytrueloves does she still eat things with higher natural sugars like fruits?? It doesn't have the same type of sugar obviously but might help with cutting down on the candies and such. Also watering down juices or doing flavored water with no sugar might help too? Glad you guys figured out how much she's having now and taking action now 

mytrueloves

@mamabearcj We didn't eliminate things with natural sugars like milk and fruit. She just isn't interested in eating anything that isn't super sweet and sugary.  We buy perrier, la croix, or bubly flavored waters with no sugar. She calls it "yummy water" lol

cjx95

@mytrueloves Well that's Good! Hopefully she starts to feel better and back to her presugar self soon!! Detoxes are hard especially with kids when they don't understand why they can't have those foods anymore

pumpkinpancake

I brought a sandwich to work today for lunch, but one of the specials at the cafe in my building sounded good, so I got that instead and didn’t eat my sandwich. It was yummy, but now it’s kind of not sitting right, and I regret my life choices. I should have just eaten my damn sandwich and not been a fatso! 

knottieamusements

@pumpkinpancake - I had two peanut butter cookies with lunch and am blaming that on lunch not sitting right.  

SweetSweetTooth

@pumpkinpancake I would have wanted to do the special and then eat the sandwich as an afternoon snack. Heck try it. It may settle your stomach 

elothair

DD is away at brownie camp this weekend and DH is taking DS camping for a boys weekend which means I get a weekend alone! I haven’t been alone in the house since before DD was born 7.5 years ago!

I plan on deep cleaning/organizing the house and painting our living room but I also plan on being ridiculously lazy outside of that - early bedtime and late sleep in. And I had to go grocery shopping for snacks/treats for the boys this morning and bought more chips/candy/junk food for myself than I did for them and hid it away so they don’t try and steal it!

tlmill

@jengibre_zorro when I was pregnant with DD, I had two Dr. Peppers a day. With DS, I had two Coke Zeros most days. They’re both perfectly fine. 

Also I usually go 3-4 days between shampoos, and 2 days without showering. Dry shampoo has saved my life. 

DunkinDecaf

@mytrueloves that’s so scary. I’ve worried about that with DD2 lately actually. She says “candy?” alllll the time, even though we rarely give her any. I hope she gets through it soon! Second the idea about fats. I did a whole 30 once and fatty red meat got me through the first sugar deprivation part.

purplegoldfish2

@DunkinDecaf How often is rarely?  Our boys were constantly asking for candy and they rarely got it - as in not even once a week because at the time we didn’t eat it so it was never in the house.  It was because they didn’t get it often that they kept asking for it - now that we have been slacking on eating well and have more of that kind of stuff in the house, they don’t ask for it as much.  They’ll even choose dried seaweed over chocolate for dessert some days.  Just asking for it all the time doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a problem.  How does she react when you tell her no? (Of course, age and personality could play into the reaction.)

jynjer4

It’s been a good week since I’ve shaved my legs and I’d marry my bottle of dry shampoo if I could. 

DunkinDecaf

@purplegoldfish2 maybe once a week? If someone gets a wicked good bonk on the noggin and I’m failing to soothe her I’ll sometimes deploy a piece of Easter candy (one of those tiny foil wrapped Hershey eggs) to calm things down, and I always give both girls a piece if one of them gets one. If you count other sugary treats like popsicles or those arrowroot cookies though they probably get them every other day.

Almost no reaction when I tell her no most of the time. A halfhearted point and one little “wah” usually, which she forgets about the moment she sees something else. I’ve mostly worried about it because of how fixated she is on the idea of candy. Whenever she sees brightly colored anything it’s “candy?!”. I’m also worrying about not getting enough vegetables into them lately. I’m a pretty awesome worrier, not to brag or anything.

purplegoldfish2

@DunkinDecaf From your description, it sounds like she’s ok. My boys were the same way for a while.  It sounds like she likes candy and gets hopeful any time she sees something that might be candy, but the reaction says she isn’t addicted (to me at least - not a dr here). If you’re really worried about it, cut out all the added sugars for a week or 2. I’ve done that with the boys before when I think they want too much candy or ice cream.  It’s not in the house (or so they think) so it’s not a big deal to them.  If they ask I just tell them we don’t have any and they either ask for something else or go play. I figure if it was really a problem, they’d put up more of a fight to have it.

Vegetables? Those are the things you’re supposed to eat every day, right?  I’ve been horrible about getting all of us to eat them - between being sick first tri and still not wanting to cook or forgetting to plan dinner and having to pick something up, I’ve been seriously slacking over here.  I realized last week that there have been entire days when none of us had eaten a single vegetable. Don’t feel bad about it, it happens sometimes. Plus, if you’ve gotten at least one vegetable in them a day, you’re doing better than me.

I’m usually pretty good at worrying, but I’ve been slacking on that lately too.  

DunkinDecaf

@purplegoldfish2 if it weren’t for those plum pouches we’d be averaging zero too. Unless they have ranch to dip them in or they’re hidden in a cheese-laden casserole it’s nearly impossible to make them eat them anyway.

sammierose464

SS asks for dessert after dinner most nights we have him, but doesn't throw a fit when we don't. I know he gets crap from his nana all the time. DH would pick SS up from his nana after school and she will have given him like 3 sugary snacks. His mom ALWAYS brings him candy at TBall which pisses me off because it's even on our days. You don't know what he's already had today and he's going to want this. Wednesday he walked up to me with a sucker DURING his game... Wtf?

mytrueloves

DD's doing much better today! She's still not exactly her regular self but her disposition has improved significantly. 

sammierose464

I'm currently sitting on the couch while my sister cleans by bathroom (which I'm paying her to do). I'm so thankful! She cleans for her day job, so she's pretty good at it and now everything looks great. $25 well spent!

nmadjeski

@sammierose464 I just scrubbed my own bathroom and boy do I wish I had paid someone to do it! Haha 

cagncoo12

@mytrueloves I think it’s amazing you noticed it and are dealing with the sugar addiction! I think so many parents are blind to it when it happens to kids! I didn’t realize I had a such an intolerance to sugar until I did Keto (for other health reasons). It’s a rough thing to break, but so worth it when you get used to a better balanced diet!