sugar free

[here42da]

Welcome to the Food Addicts Anonymous online support forums. Thanks for asking your question. Looking at ingredient lists has become a part of my everyday activity where I am. I continue to do this even when I am using the same product that I have used many times over and over. That is because many times the manufacturer can and does change an ingredient. It just takes a lot of determination.

It has been amazing to me also to find out how much has the different forms of sugars in the products. I have found out that part of it is that the companies are using a form of sugar as a preserviative. Yes, whoever heard of putting sugar in meat. But they do. In fact it is hard to find clean meat. If not in it, maybe it is injected with it or glazed on it, etc. The ground meats are probably the best but always be checking. And make sure to know that it is the ingredient list that we are concerned with. (Not the nutritional facts box).

I also found out that bigger isn't better. While some of the smaller like 12 ounce containers of a particular food would be okay, the larger size of the same product put the forms of sugar in them. Again, as I mentioned before this is used as a preservative

[step3]

Thanks so much for posting this information, here42da. You're so right about how important it is to check ingredients on cans and packages! We may not consciously know what we've put into our bodies (if we didn't check the label) but our bodies will know, and if there's a form of sugar/flour/or wheat in what we've eaten (and they will trigger an addictive response in the food addict!), then we will have physical cravings for "more". Because we weren't aware of eating s/f/w, we may not know what's going on, and I have heard of people relapsing in situations like this. It's sure not worth it!

Information for newcomers: FAA has a suggested food plan which can be found in the Guide to Abstinence. It's in several pieces of FAA literature and can also be found here on the FAA website. If you look at the website food plan, you'll see the lists of the various forms of sugar/flour/wheat that act as sugar in a food addict's body. You can see this by following this direct link:

http://www.foodaddictsanonymous.org/faa-food-plan

Keep coming back... FAA works if we work it, so let's work it... we're worth it! :P

step3