Gave up chocolate

Mark_Dj

I have made myself give up eating chocolate, cakes and drinking fissy pops :o :? . It's not that I want to as I love the stuff, I can't eat enough lol. I normally come home from work and open a packet of biscuits then next thing you know the whole packet is gone. The reason I stopped eating chocolate and cakes, fissy pop is because a part of my tooth came away the other day and I thought to myself I best keep off the sweet stuff 🙁 . It's killing me not eating my Favorite treats cryb.. . Now I am not fat, I am about 13stone and 6ft in height so thats about right for me. I just need to know a few things that I am doing now is ok from the sweets / biscuits I like. At the moment I am eating yogurts, crisps (Skips are my fav). I am also drinking milkshakes to give me the sweet taste I am craving for. I am eating fruit as in satsumas at the moment. Is ice cream ok to eat or is that just as bad a chocolate? What else can I snack on apart from chocolate? I have a fair few fillings in my teeth from over the years, now I want to take more care in them, the best I can. Am I doing the right thing :cry:

jwalker

Ice cream is terrible mate, full of fat and sugar. Wish I could give all them up 🙁

Fruit is better but some kinds still have quite a high sugar level. Try pepsi max and sugar free drinks like it, it's all I have and now I can't drink normal coke anymore because I can taste how much sugar is in it and it makes me sick. The mrs spends more on pop every month than she does on her water rates!

Matt

jwalker said:
I can't drink normal coke anymore because I can taste how much sugar is in it and it makes me sick.

I'm the same now. If I do drink pop, it's Coke Zero or Pepsi Max.

Mark_Dj

I think it's the fizzy part that damages teeth, even Pepsi Max and Coke Zero. I got told all fizzy drinks damage teeth notsure.gif . I still wish I could eat some biscuits lol drool.gif

vocky

I gave up fizzy drinks a few years ago, very tough to do, but long term it really isn't that good for you :thumbdown:

Don't think I could give up chocolate though :lol:

Mark_Dj

I am finding giving up chocolate very hard. I have just had two yogurts lol. I will be drinking milk now and milkshakes and the odd bottle of juice. Not sure if juice is good for you or not notsure.gif

vocky

if you want to keep your teeth happy than stop drinking sugary drinks, chocolate isn't half as bad as a can of full sugar fizz

try drinking diet or sugar free fizzy drinks and limit the chocolate to one bar a day

After I got an ulcer fizzy drinks don't appeal to me any more, especially as it took a year to fully heal :thumbdown:

si_c1978

moderation is key!
i started behaving myself for similar reasons, cost me 600 quid to get a tooth repaired (root canal)
i dont really have a sweet tooth but i used to drink hell of a lot of sweet coffee and energy drinks when i was a service engineer cos i was always knackered,
easiest thing to do was drop energy drinks and have 1 or no sugar in my coffee things were a lot better after that.

diet drinks arent as bad sugar wise but make the enamel brittle. (thats what me dentist says) obviously diet energy drinks have high acid content and are also really bad. DONT brush your teeth after drinking them!