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Day 19 - sugar cravings seem worse! Is this normal?


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Day 19... no Tiger Blood... in fact the cravings for sugar, wine, etc... seem to have gotten stronger! A week ago I wouldn't have looked twice at these things but now find myself dreaming about all of my old sweet snacks. Is this normal?

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It could be that you are having an extinction burst - this is your brain's last stitch effort to get you to give in to your cravings. I have done 4 whole 30's and each one is different.  My first one was cupcakes (I don't even really like them) but I wanted them so bad.  The last whole 30 I did I was going grocery shopping and I walking down the isle and I could smell marshmallows.  I wanted to eat the whole bag then and there.  Again - I actually dislike marshmallows quite a bit and haven't had them since I was a teenager.  But now I know what my brain is trying to do and I just kind of laugh.  And know that I'm not going to give in.

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I've done more Whole30s than I can easily count, and I can say that the sugar cravings come and go and come and go and come and go etc.  I've discovered recently that when I'm tired, I crave sugar every single second that I'm awake.  I never, ever feed the sugar dragon, and the cravings never, ever go away - when I'm tired.  I can exhaust myself even more by fighting the dragon in my head - but so far it's been worth it.  I'm handling stress levels I never thought I could handle without getting sick these days. 

But the sugar cravings, I'm not sure there's a time table for them to go away entirely.  It'd be nice, but...

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