I want to lose weight.. AGAIN

[Neenee Jellybeanie]

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.

[Inanna]

Good on you Neenee!!!!!

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...