Sugar cravings?????

**PuppyLove** · 03-18-2008 04:54 AM

I've been on Met for 4 days now, and just trying to get through and cope with the initial side effects.

One thing I've noticed is I'm craving sugar BIG time. Is this normal?? How do I get around it without indulging in sweets???

Please help

**tashamarie** · 03-18-2008 08:35 AM

Every time I've started met (was off for awhile) My doc has given me phentermine, so I didn't eat anything at all, and then when I did eat, even toast, I was in the bathroom within 20 minutes. This is so not the way to take care of them cravings.
As for me regular everyday life, I am craving bad foods all the time!!!!!! So I will be checking back here. I don't have the sweet tooth so much, I can walk by candies, ice cream, etc. But Pasta, Mountain Dew, Pizza, Chips, those are my weaknesses!
Maybe you could try these things that I actually used to eat before I got pcos (when I was 14)
I ate yogurts, fat free chocolate pudding, the quaker caramel rice cakes, alot of fruit.
I need to start doing that again, that used to be all I wanted to eat, including chicken and spaghetti :-). And salads with french dressing.
It is so funny how I used to actually eat healthy, I used to walk everywhere, ever since I was little I would get up in the am and exercise with denise austen lol, then I get this, pack on 80 lbs with out even batting an eye. frustrating!!!

**PuppyLove** · 03-18-2008 10:01 AM

Yep frustrating is an understatement tasha!!

What's cruel is you seem to crave all the foods you can't/shouldn't eat!! What's with that?? I'm hoping as time goes on these cravings will go. I'm finding it really hard right now . . argghhhh!!

I am trying to eat healthy, salads, yoghurt, lots of water, fruit etc.

**yeslek** · 03-19-2008 07:55 AM

i get cravings for carb's - dutty chips especially

**Sarrah** · 03-19-2008 08:14 AM

When I started met the opposite happened thank God , I lost my sugar and carb cravings and because of nausea didnt feel like eating at all.

After 6 months on met - now on 2000mgs XR, the cravings and appetite are coming back slightly but not very hungry in mornings though.

I just have a capp and thats all i feel like but mostly I force myself to have museli and yogurht.

**PuppyLove** · 03-19-2008 08:47 AM

Sarrah

I've lost my appetite as well, but crave sugar though. Like I'm not hungry AT ALL but I want sugar if that makes sense.

I literally have to make myself eat, but Ive been like that for ages anyway, hardly any appetite but piling weight on at a rate of knots

Sarrah, have u lost weight from being on the met????

**vwjettachik** · 04-29-2008 03:16 PM

I was like this too until I started eating organic foods and realized that many organic fruits were more healthy for me than normal fruits and it settled the sweet craving- the oranges and the grapes were the best. So maybe trying that instead will help you out. I know it helped me- but there are those times that I'm like ok GIVE ME CHOCOLATE! - You'll have this.

**bluluvscoco** · 04-29-2008 04:21 PM

I'm with puppy love! I lost my appetite but I really crave sweets constantly. I lost like 8 pounds on metaformin.

**mpatch** · 04-30-2008 09:54 AM

If you eat a lower carb diet the cravings will go away...the first week I was on low carb I thought I was going to die! it didn't matter what I ate or how much of it...since it wasn't bread products I was craving like crazy...but then they just stopped and I had to start making myself eat. I go in and out of the sugar cravings...sometimes I want it and sometimes I want nothing to do with it. It is a frustrating thing!

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