Anyone else get “sugar crazy”?

[ToastEater]

I eat clean 100% all week. Then, Saturday’s refeed comes around and as soon as meal time rolls around I can’t keep my mind of sugar and can’t stop myself from smashing my face into it. It’s like the sugar is crack and I’m a wicked addict. In my head I’m like “dude, this is fucked, WHAT are you doing!” ...but I can’t stop...

I’m about 10-12% with a 5,000 calorie weekly.

Anyone else experience this?

 

[Rival]

Only when I don’t get enough. I find that not eating enough sugar in my diet causes more hunger. I get majority of mine from fruits.

 

[Mac11wildcat]

I eat clean 100% all week. Then, Saturday’s refeed comes around and as soon as meal time rolls around I can’t keep my mind of sugar and can’t stop myself from smashing my face into it. It’s like the sugar is crack and I’m a wicked addict. In my head I’m like “dude, this is fucked, WHAT are you doing!” ...but I can’t stop...

I’m about 10-12% with a 5,000 calorie weekly.

Anyone else experience this?

I would advise being a tad more flexible in your food sources during the week. There’s no reason a pre/post workout meal can’t have some sugar in it.

this is why most diets fail TBH. but as some point, it does come down to will. If you want anything bad enough you’ll do what’s necessary; sugar isn’t that hard to conquer for a goal you want. but I think, unless you have a VERY specific, lofty goal, that flexibility during the week can prevent weekend binges just fine.

 

[ToastEater]

I would advise being a tad more flexible in your food sources during the week. There’s no reason a pre/post workout meal can’t have some sugar in it.

this is why most diets fail TBH. but as some point, it does come down to will. If you want anything bad enough you’ll do what’s necessary; sugar isn’t that hard to conquer for a goal you want. but I think, unless you have a VERY specific, lofty goal, that flexibility during the week can prevent weekend binges just fine.

#truth

I think my trouble is that I’m trending around 10-12% and my 16 week contest prep doesn’t begin until July 15. So between now and then I’m not 10% all-in. I’m like 90%. But by then I need to be 100%...

 

[Mac11wildcat]

#truth

I think my trouble is that I’m trending around 10-12% and my 16 week contest prep doesn’t begin until July 15. So between now and then I’m not 10% all-in. I’m like 90%. But by then I need to be 100%...

If you’re competing, nix that habit now. You don’t want that monkey on your back during prep. Get it under control by including some sugary stuff in your normal diet so that when prep starts you’re not trying to crush a binge habit on the weekends.

 

[ToastEater]

If you’re competing, nix that habit now. You don’t want that monkey on your back during prep. Get it under control by including some sugary stuff in your normal diet so that when prep starts you’re not trying to crush a binge habit on the weekends.

You think skip the refeed and incorporate simple sugars into the diet post workout or something along those lines? If your avatar is you, I’m guessing you’ve got this part of the diet well sorted.

 

[Mac11wildcat]

You think skip the refeed and incorporate simple sugars into the diet post workout or something along those lines? If your avatar is you, I’m guessing you’ve got this part of the diet well sorted.

Avatar is me, but everyone’s different. What works for me doesn’t always work for everyone else. But just speaking psychologically, a lot of the time the “clean all week and refeed on the weekend” turns into a reward system. Ate clean all week so i deserve this binge.

During a good deal of prep there’s really no room for that. But if you have a decent coach and a diet that includes some things like that to begin with, you can usually keep them in for a long time before a prep diet becomes completely clean. Mine was muffins; I had a muffin preworkout up until 2 weeks out. But in day to day life, or even offseason for competitive bodybuilding, eliminating food groups seems to me to be counterproductive.

 

[GdaddyGains]

During prep I can’t even have anything that is too sweet because it’s a trigger food. Peanut butter with caramel rice cakes was used by one prep coach for me. I would wake up in the middle of the night starving (couldn’t sleep because of Tren). I would eat one and just that sugar with peanut butter would drive me insane. One time I remember I eat 10 rice cakes with peanut butter in middle of the night. Just sat that orgasming over it shoving them in my face non stop.....couldn’t stop myself. I ended up doing 3 hours of cardio the next day to try and make up for it.

 

[GdaddyGains]

Avatar is me, but everyone’s different. What works for me doesn’t always work for everyone else. But just speaking psychologically, a lot of the time the “clean all week and refeed on the weekend” turns into a reward system. Ate clean all week so i deserve this binge.

During a good deal of prep there’s really no room for that. But if you have a decent coach and a diet that includes some things like that to begin with, you can usually keep them in for a long time before a prep diet becomes completely clean. Mine was muffins; I had a muffin preworkout up until 2 weeks out. But in day to day life, or even offseason for competitive bodybuilding, eliminating food groups seems to me to be counterproductive.

Like he said you gotta figure out what works for you and crack the code per say. Once you start getting to low body fat your brain and body do some crazy shit.

As for your weekend sugar cravings either stay away from trigger foods or maybe look at your diet during the week. Maybe you arnt eating enough or including some sugar may help. I find fruit is a good substitute when i want sugar. During prep if I am dying between meals I’ll have a few bites of fruit....like two strawberries lol. Whatever works to get you to the next meal.