When I 1st started to kick the habit. I always wanted brownies, sweets, cotton candy exc. Even on the methadone I pretty much replaced heroin with more junk food in the form of sweets. I gained 30 pounds 11 months clean so I don't recomend the sugar fix. I had never been a sugar person right after getting off 2.5 years of mainlining I found I loved snacks. The snack craze has died down now that i'm off methadone. My god I gained all this weight that i'm so unhappy about. I got this uncontrolable urge to eat junk I had to force myself to eat regular food. The methadone made me tired, so I was jacking up on candy then sleeping all the time. It's funny to look back on but, when it was happening I felt crappy unless I was getting sugar. My boyfriend kept telling me to slow down on the sweets, I got to where I would hide CANDY and sneek and eat it "old habits DIE hard" lol. I was so looney those 1st few months kicking the habit. Now i'm on this low fat ice cream kick, still have not lost a pound. I need to do something about this weight issue. I lost so much weight using, I lost it so fast, it all came back fast.
I loged in wrong zerpgirl77 i'm so tired boyfriend got me up at 5am wanting to go fishing agch, he went without me. It's past noon my brain is still slugish.
Everybody is fishing today I swear. I'd have yelled at him waking you up. LOL
Alot of people gain wieght on the 'done I know. Not to mention us peep's who kicked without it. I have to force myself to exercise. I hear you about that sluggish feeling. Maybe read some of the stuff that person Alaska wrote. Amino Acids, and getting off the sugar really help. I'm going to start that myself, and at least go back to walking a few miles.
My thing was I lost a ton of weight from the dope, but I also had to walk, and run all the time trying to cop. Hang in there ZG. You're doing good. The weight gets a little depressing, but being clean is great. Good for you.
Alot of people gain wieght on the 'done I know. Not to mention us peep's who kicked without it. I have to force myself to exercise. I hear you about that sluggish feeling. Maybe read some of the stuff that person Alaska wrote. Amino Acids, and getting off the sugar really help. I'm going to start that myself, and at least go back to walking a few miles.
My thing was I lost a ton of weight from the dope, but I also had to walk, and run all the time trying to cop. Hang in there ZG. You're doing good. The weight gets a little depressing, but being clean is great. Good for you.
Hey This is right up my Street. YES, the World of Sugar...Did you eat much Before Using? You may be Borderline Hypoglycemic. Does it give you energy for about an hour, two hours then you get sleepy, maybe runny nose, chills, eyes watering? You fall asleep then wake up better after an hour? Those are all signs of a Hypoglycemic crash. I used to do it all the time. I would have nothing but heavily sugared coffee + 20 million cigarettes, cop, then cook dinner. So basically 1 square meal a day. I have done a number on myself health wise, never mind the using. I had to knock out ALL sugar, If I want a sweet, a piece of fruit or glass of oj. Check my Feeding Yr. Head post. May give you a guideline for food. And dont eat that Costumed Offal from Mc Donalds. Go to the grocery store, you can cook, its not brain surgery. I may be a slightly mad housewife but I know about this stuff;I learned the hard way. 'Done does fat you up in spots but it will go away, if you eat right.Light exercise, too! Good luck!
Never in my life had I cared a lot 4 candy/ sugar stuff prior getting clean and starting methadone. When I was using I did not eat a lot and I walked my a** Off getting dope. I know it's not low blood sugar I am diabetic I take 850mg 2xa day glucophage for type2. I'm just glad it resolved its self on it's own about 2 months off methadone I just did not crave it as much. I think mostly it was a mood elevater I got depressed going down on the done I never stayed at a regular dose any time length "uping or downing". I went up on the done real fast then started detoxing real fast. I'm just glad i'm over it all for the moment. No done, no needles, no depression, no sugar rushes. It has been an adventure.
AMEN sister, & u can say it again, in fact write it in letters 50 ft. high:"Adventure"...yeesh! I would lay on the floor @ night, kicking, get the chills deep bad chills & tell myself its NOT COLD its hot Hot Hot- you know the mind over matter thing,the Zen-master thing. It didn't work so good but it was...interesting.Kinda sorta.But not really.Its fascinating how one can be sick as a dog, really, really bad, to the point of screaming almost, then, sit up, comb yr hair, and then say, cross an International border, for instance,(done that a couple times) or help detectives w/ their enquiries (that too) w/o getting hauled off to the can: "What's wrong with you? Roll up yr sleeves, Buster". The human body is indeed a remarkable thing. The longer I live in mine I realise how tough it is. But us girls r tough, it's Evolutionary( no offense to any Religious sensibilities u may have) we gotta bear the babies so we are built Tonka-Tuff.Too bad we put it to the test in such odd ways.
Ahh, I don't know what it is about the sugar! During my kick I would eat bags and bags of M&M's, hershey kisses, etc. I am now down to a candy bar a day, but for some reason whenever I get that drug urge I have some chocolate and I am fine. Of course there is coffee and cigarettes, cigs, and more cigs. My boyfriend can always tell when I am using (with the exeption of my great attitude, pinned eyes and nodding out) I wont eat anything but bread and sometimes I'll drink milk. H makes my stomach feel like it is dying?? Ha, don't know why. The first time i kicked I gained about 20lbs. This time I haven't really gained any weight. I try not to give into every physical urge that I have, but I am having manic episodes I guess. I feel like I have to much energy, have to get out and do something, and after about 2 hrs of feeling like that I am freaking exhausted!!! Methadone will most certainly make you gain weight. I remember waking up in the hospital after my overdose in 04. My uncle shoved chocolate in my face, saying that it would make me feel better, I couldn't eat it. But after the nurse gave me methadone, man was I hungry! They were initially trying to force me to eat because I was malnourished for not eating for so long, after the methadone I couldn't stop! Ha HA! Don't worry, your body will go back to normal after a while and you wont crave the sweets so much. I try to treat these kinds of problems the way that I treat my addiction, and in that mindset it usually works, but sometimes, hey, you just need sugar! It's better than using!! So don't get to down on yourself. You will drop the weight, and your appetite will go back to normal again I promise.
Well, that explains why my son is running around with bubbleishous bubblegum, sweet tarts, and bags of other assorted sugar candy. He has been on methadone for 3 days. Hmmm. I guess it is better than heroin.
I suggest splenda.
I suggest splenda.
Must be the 'done is right. I only did the sugar on the dope. Amazing how you can eat all these fattening cakes, and junk, and weigh 90 pounds.
Last might we met a recovering addict. Has eight years. Didn't do NA. Did his own program, and ATE CHOCOLATE. I said well I walked so maybe. Now I think maybe he was on the done'.
Splenda is scarry. I am afraid of that stuff. Us junkies are so weird. We shoot junk off the street could be rat poison, but have germ phobias, and fear of artificial sweetners.
Glad your boy is doing better clueless.
Last might we met a recovering addict. Has eight years. Didn't do NA. Did his own program, and ATE CHOCOLATE. I said well I walked so maybe. Now I think maybe he was on the done'.
Splenda is scarry. I am afraid of that stuff. Us junkies are so weird. We shoot junk off the street could be rat poison, but have germ phobias, and fear of artificial sweetners.
Glad your boy is doing better clueless.
The Mysteries of Chocolate...It has endorphin-like substances in it, which we addicts have messed up by our using(our naturally-produced brain-made endos).Bread has carbs which help up serotonin levels,milk has tryptophan which has sleep-helpers in it. All this stuff (trypto,serotonin,etc.) is stuff we've thrown outta balance by our opiate use. Sometimes it is best to listen to the body & feed it what it craves...well, besides dope, that is! You can really let yrself go on this stuff its weird.I just found sugar made my withdrawl symptoms go on & on, is all.That's why I hadda cut it out completely.
haha fear of artificial sweetners....YOU know just the other day I was telling my boyfriend the dangers of nutra sweet artificial sweetners. I'm diabetic but, I use real sugar because of the cancer fear from sweetners but, I neary lost my arm to shoting dope "staf infection".
