Obsession with sweets?

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...My "special interest" in sweets....you know, like ice cream, cookies, cake, milkshakes, stuff like that. I think I know why I like them so much, attach so much importance to them, and why they've morphed into almost a full - blown special interest for me.

Anyway. I think the reason why I enjoy sweets so much (and I do mean "enjoy" - to others, they're probably "just food") is because to me, they're sort of symbolic of....you know, someone liking you a lot, caring about you and thinking you're really special, and wanting to reward you for being good, etc. My dad would sometimes take me to a cafe in a bookstore after school when I was a kid, and he'd buy a brownie or something, and we'd split it in half and each have some of it...and what we didn't eat, he'd wrap back up and let me have at a later time. That may be where the symbolism originated...of course, it could also just be how my brain interpreted the events, or something, I honestly don't know. I feel lonely, anxious, depressed, and even somewhat isolated often, so maybe sweets are a way for me to recapture feeling "special" and cared for again. I do know that when someone tells me (or used to tell me) "no, you can't have any more, that's enough," or "you eat too much/you're addicted to food" that it hurts as bad as someone saying, oh, "I don't like you," or "I don't want to see/talk to you" etc. Intellectually, I understand that it's for my own good, but emotionally, that's another story.

I get kinda the same gratification from my plushies and die cast Cars, too, and sometimes they act as stand - ins when I can't find any sweets (or ingredients to make sweets with, like ice cream sundaes or chocolate milk), but I always feel good after eating sweets. Heck, even eating out somehwere has the same effect....the camaraderie of sitting in a nice, comfy booth, splitting a large milkshake, someone caring about you enough to want to treat you to dinner out, etc.

It feels almost sort of derogatory to me to refer to the pleasurable feelings I get from sweets/food a "high," although that's probably exactly what it is, lol. But it also just doesn't feel like a "high", in the rush and pound sense of the term - just a lovely reminder of when I was younger, of feeling loved and protected, etc.

Anyway, my concluding questions are, does this sound familiar to anybody, and if possible, does anyone know of any possible remedies? Cuz I got a report from my physician back in November about my cholestrol and triglycerides, so I kinda need to cut this out as soon as I'm able. Thanks!

EDIT: Whoa, it's amazing how deep I can get when I'm stuck in the house all day with nothing to do but surf the internet, lol.

I love sweets especially Icecream cake and candy!! ![youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kh360KU114&feature=related[/youtube]

Most Westerners seem to have an issue with sweets - no surprise, considering how ubiquitous and cheap most sugar-laden foods are these days.

Anyway, some research I have read links sweet cravings with low magnesium. Magnesium-rich foods include nuts, seeds, leafy greens, and some fish. I eat most of those regularly and experience no cravings for sweets - in fact, I find most sweets now to be rather gross.

I love sweets. I need to eat something sweet after each meal, else my blood sugar levels tend to drop low and I feel a strong internal discomfort. But I do have normal blood levels of magnesium, I just got them tested...

I don't have an obsession with sweets, but I've often had dreams where I'm in a shop that sells sweets and I've got the choice of all the sweets in the world and I'm taking ages to decide which sweets to get, then I suddenly wake up from the dream and feel disappointed that I never got to ate my sweets!

Good to know about your magnesium. I should add that we certainly do need some carbs to survive - as as type 1 diabetic, I know this well. When I need some sweets to recover quickly from a low, citrus fruits seem to work best for me.

I love my sweets. I've found a bunch of those small chocolate Christmas balls and I brought them into my apartment and put them in my fridge.

Sounds like emotional eating which is a problem that NTs deal with as well. There are a few ways you could deal with this like finding a sustitute for sweets such as the things you mentioned, or everytime you feel like having sweets force yourself to eat fruit and eventually you crave fruit instead (this has worked for me in the past) or you could do the best and hardest thing to do and tackle the underlying reasons of your obssesion, feeling lonely and like nobody is caring for you. Just some suggestions.

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Donuts are awesome too!! !