Binge / Sugar eating
I am in a terrible place where I cannot control the urges to binge eat sweet foods. I am a 70 year young lady in Western Australia. My weight gain in very concerning and I have no control when this urge takes me. I have had counselling, tried diets, remedies and so on. I never associated this with my RLS until reading an article in this group.. but that still does not help me to find a solution. Any suggestions would be gratefully received. thank you.
I am sorry to hear you are having urges to binge eat sweets. Are you on pramipexole and having impulse control issues? If so, are you able to try a different medication?
Unfortunately, the right combo of sugar, fat and salt lights up the same part of a rats brain as cocaine https://www.conncoll.edu/news/news-archive/2013/student-faculty-research-suggests-oreos-can-be-compared-to-drugs-of-abuse-in-lab-rats.html
I drink water when I feel the urge for sugar, and back when I could handle fruits, I would have that for a natural sugar.
🥄🦄 Ray (Team member)
