Smell of sugar triggers cravings/hunger?

[cherribom1]

Does anyone get triggered to eat by the smell of sugar?! Wow, I was just sitting on the computer, when my boyfriend walked in the room with a bowl of sugary smelling cereal... I think it was lucky charms. Just the sugar smell alone started up my hunger even after just feeling full from a breakfast omelet with broccoli and cheese. So I drank a bottle of water and a couple of Almonds. But wow, what a trigger! And on an additional side note, I have been drinking tons of water, more water than I have ever had in my life! YAY!

[SunnySmile501]

I was never a sweets person, so sugar doesn't do it to me, but things like pizza and baking bread certainly do. We are so cued into our triggers. I can be stuffed and smell something or even read a recipe and see a picture and I am drooling and feel hungry.

This is bad because I am writing a low carb cookbook, so I am looking at food all the time. Sometimes I have to just stop and do something else for a while to keep from eating every five minutes.

[cherribom1]

I guess no cookie dough scented air fresheners for us! LOL! That's awesome you are writing a low carb cookbook, I should do that myself!

[FwL]

What has gotten me, twice now, is the smell of bread being heated... once as the wife was making toast (my god how I do love toast)... and again just this morning as she was making a grilled tuna sandwich.


Since you mention air fresheners...

My business partner got the bright Idea to hang up vanilla scented trees in our equipment trailer. I have flip-flopped probably 10,000 times between thinking the smell is rancid and thinking I could sure go for some vanilla flavored anything.

[boonie stomper]

Oh, MY...

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MORE.....: Le Whif - chocolate consumed by inhaling

[msanjelpie]

Hubby was making brownies the other night... Oh the smell was divine... I also love the smell of Krispy Kreme donuts fresh baked glazed in all their glory...

I used to live near the Kilpatricks bread factory in California... you couldn't drive down the freeway without being immersed in the aroma of fresh baked bread...

Sourdough toast... mmmmmmm

[boonie stomper]

Did this happen??
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[chinadoll]

fresh doughnuts, hot bread baking, apple pie, pizza, ---yep, one sniff ans the salivary glands kick in, stomach starts gurgling and the red flags go up with an alarm sounding "Get out of here ASAP"

[ZoeMom]

same thing happened to me last night................

My son was making Pop Tarts and the smell totally got me. I felt like I was in heaven's bakery for a few minutes and it smelled irresistably good. Keep in mind that I hate PopTarts and never even looked at them before I went on Atkins.

I guess ones brain/smell receptors become highly sensitive for smells after a being a while on atkins.

[MrsChesterDogg]

If anything in the world would do it for me it would be the smell of those darn Krispy Kream donuts! So, far I've been able to avoid them at work.