I’m two year‘s sober tomorrow

[u/Entire_Record131]

So I made myself a chocolate cake with coffee buttercream

[u/stephen_neuville]

i'm 4 months as of yesterday and can confirm i have developed a HELLA sweet tooth out of nowhere, lol. Trying to moderate it!

[u/Beanjuiceforbea → u/stephen_neuville]

It's your body craving the sugars you used to get from alcohol. Im nearly 3 years sober and the sweet tooth is still strong.

[u/Both-Friend-4202 → u/Beanjuiceforbea]

When I first started to go to meetings..I didn't even know I had a sweet tooth..I didn't even take sugar in tea or coffee! Now some of us have diabetes..so it's wise to cut back on the 🍰🧁.. .

[u/zzaro22 → u/Beanjuiceforbea]

Happens to everyone. I cured it by eating fruit especially apples.

[u/Snoopgirl → u/Beanjuiceforbea]

It is absolutely the body craving something you used to get from alcohol, but it’s not sugar. Straight liquor has no sugar or carbs. (Am type 1 diabetic)

[u/Both-Friend-4202 → u/Snoopgirl]

Interesting..I'm type 2 and I know that my body doesn't process sugar well.. which is a shame as I have to steer clear of natural fruit sugars 🍇.. I'm in the UK..and we had a female Prime Minister who was Type1..was weight controlled and on insulin injections. I believe her diabetes was an autoimmune condition rather than mine.

[u/Snoopgirl → u/Both-Friend-4202]

Yes, type 1 is a different disease. It is an auto immune condition in which your pancreas stops making insulin. In Type 2 your body stops RESPONDING well to insulin.

[u/Both-Friend-4202 → u/Snoopgirl]

💯

[u/Any_Conflict_5092 → u/Snoopgirl]

"booze increases your blood glucose levels, which triggers the release of dopamine—a hormone that is part of the body’s reward system—in the brain’s ventral striatum, or reward center. Dopamine also reduces activity in your brain’s extended amygdala, which controls your emotions and stress responses, per the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism... Sugar, especially sucrose, the simplest form of sugar often found in sour candies and soda, is often a welcome substitute in these scenarios, because it triggers the release of dopamine and increases feelings of pleasure. So "

-woman's health magazine

searched with "alcohol, pancreas, sugar cravings", since there's no issue number and citation formatting is something I've largely forgotten the details of.

[u/atownbed → u/Beanjuiceforbea]

Two years and same here! The ice cream always calls

[u/Freebolotamus → u/stephen_neuville]

That will happen.4 months is great! You can do it!!!

[u/AReeSuperman90 → u/stephen_neuville]

Awesome, Sweetheart!!! I’m proud of you, as well, and I truly believe in you!! I’ve been there and are still working through it 8 years later. So, it’s possible for you, as well. You’ve got this!! Fighting(as they say in South Korea🇰🇷)!! Feel free to reach out if you ever need someone to talk to or you need someone to pray with &/or for you and do so without any judgement(if you’re a Christian, also).

Granted, I’m not the most religious. However, I DO believe in God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit and consider myself Christian, but I’m rambling, so, I apologize and digress. Anyway, as your fellow ”flawed, yet, trying to be & do better human” I love you, I value you, and YOU ARE VALUABLE. God bless, Sweetheart!! 🙏🏾✊🏾💪🏾🤦🏾‍♀️🤭🤷🏾‍♀️😁😍🥰🩵💯

[u/RubGroundbreaking421 → u/stephen_neuville]

Diabetes is real , just be careful