It's difficult to stop those sugar cravings - unfortunately the more you eat the more your body wants. It takes about 2 weeks to rid yourself of the craving. I think when we are tired (and who isn't with little ones) it makes it more difficult. I have always been able to eat what I wanted until the last few years - I too think it was being really down with all of the loss that I endured...
A couple of months ago I decided that I wanted to wear nice clothes again - to go swimming with my kids - and not be a bystander because I felt too overweight.
I got up to a size 16 with Imogen and I have lost a dress size so far. I red the Atkins New Revolution (2000 edition) and it seemed to make sense. I am never ever hungry and after the first week I didnt crave sweets. I have so much more energy and I feel great. People are only just starting to say those magic words (you've lost weight!) - the more I have lost the more dedicated I have become. People think that it's all about bacon and eggs but it is far from it. I eat eggs for breaky usually with some mushrooms and parsley - sometimes with bacon. For lunch I have ham/chicken with sprouts, lettuce, tomato, cucumber and feta cheese. For dinner I have a meat with salad or veges. I literally now have to force myself to eat - and I am not even tempted to have a piece of cheesecake (my achilles heel!) when I go out with friends. I eat diet jelly sometimes and Coles sell an Atkins bar that you can have for a treat. Its a really manageable way for me to lose. AND it cuts that sugar need. A couple of weeks ago I began eating low carb lollies/chocolate now and then and it stalled my weight loss so I am back on the pure food now.
Anyway it might be worth a try if those sugar cravings are out of control. There is also a website that you can access help on.
I've lost 15kgs and have A LOT more to go!! According to my BMI, I need to lose another 30kgs (*facepalm*) but I have a large frame and I suspect that I really need to lose more like 20kgs. I haven't weighed my "ideal weight" (55 - 65kgs) since I was pre-teen. Even when I was a size 10 I weighed 70kgs. I weigh 95 right now and am a size 16. I'd be absolutely ecstatic to be a size 12!
With the sugar cravings, sugar addiction is actually a physical phenomenon and the best way (if not the only way) to deal with it is to go cold turkey and ditch everything high in sugar (or artificially sweetened). I made a thread about it if you're interested titled 'sugar addiction' which has some info from wikipedia.
I agree that you need to go cold turkey - but remembering all carbs are essentially treated like sugars by the body. So our "sugar" intake can still be significant even if we just erradicate refined sugar . Continuing to have a high carb intake will actually maintain the "addiction" to sugar and this makes it difficult to break it's hold...
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