Hey,

I'm having difficulties to suppress my addiction towards our sweet beverages. Everyday I will crave to drink teh tarik/teh ais.

My routine: every morning drink nescafe susu. make it myself. Nescafe+uht milk and no sugar.

Then, usually after lunch I will start thinking about having teh tarik or teh ais. sometimes i drink teh tarik/teh ais in the morning, still in the afternoon will crave for it.

I desperately need help and advice on how to resolve this.


p/s: I drink plain water at least 3 litres per day and I do taekwondo 2 times a week. I don't do any other form of exercises.

Hi,
What exactly your main purpose from avoiding sweet drinks?

And you did some exercise isnt?

both my parents have diabetes. so I thought I have to be careful from now.

I do taekwondo twice a week. I think that can be considered as exercise?

slowly cut down on sugar intake as in use less sugar for ur drinks, gradual decrease otherwise ur cravings will still remain

no harm watching daily sugar intake closely, whether got family history of diabetes or not.

but twice a week of taekwando... depending on the intensity of each session, it may not be enough. IMHO usually the best is regular (3/week or more) exercise + dietary control + healthy lifestyle.

all in all, self-discipline is the key

Ignore the suggestion to cut down sugar.
If it had worked, you would not be posting here.
(Thought I saw a similar post in kopitiam)

What you require is to eat more complex carbohydrate;
such as whole grains; brown rice, wheat, real whole food
and not processed food.

You can still take sugar but you would have less craving
since most cravings is for the body lack of required nutrients.

Bring fruits with you, that you like. They can be sweet.
Once you get comfortable eating more whole grains,
real whole food, fruits, cut out processed food, fast food,
you will have improved.

When you get that working, then you are one step closer
away from diabetes, you will still be at risk. But this is the
first step you need to take.

Why do you think you need to get rid of addiction?
Scientists have proved that coffee does not harm the body, you just need to run to the toilet more often.

If you have a strong desire to refuse these drinks, then stop buying them.
buy only water and you will be happy

That requires a lot of effort. Nonetheless, I will try to do as your suggestion on my food intake.

Thank you!

It's not coffee. It's the addiction towards teh tarik/teh ais.

I also have strong desire to buy them.

Anyway,

Thanks guys for all the suggestion. I will try my best to suppress it

Quit cold turkey.. Harder u push on the workouts body craves for sugar after though. Especially those intense endurance days...

Remember not yellow color type of fruits.. such as bananas, mango, DURIAN!

Starfruit is yellow need to avoid too

Starfruit still ok la.. hahaa ( eat green one)

Sugar is addictive. Slowly cut down, you may feel withdrawal symptoms for the first few days but just maintain your willpower and you can pull through eventually!

I was addicted to coffee (2-3 cups everyday) and decided to quit cold turkey for 10 days. Was very very depressed the first 3 days but slowly started getting better and now I have kicked the addiction I still drink 2-3 days a week just for the flavour

Watch out your blood sugar level..

Can you share the reason?
If you have links to the source?

I have the same addiction like you do. Always cravings for coffee and tehtarik. Last I got symptoms at my toe feeling numbness. Went for sugar test after fasting. 5.5mmol. damn close to diabetes but I still consume those beverage till now.

I don't dare go for sugar test nw haha

Maybe because of its sugar level content?

Last month I went crazy with mangoes. Everyday eat mango.

How many times do you drink them in a day?