Tackling sugar cravings while living with roommate

futurecowvet

So while I was home on Christmas break from vet school I didn't really have any sugar cravings. However; there really was no sugar in the house (minus a Christmas party where my mom bought Whoppers, but I can't stand them so it didn't bother me). Now I'm back at school and it seems like every single day I'm getting intense cravings for sugar.

I think part of my problem is I've gone back to living in basically the land of sugar. I honestly wonder how my roommate has not yet developed diabetes given that she tends to have a Red Bull or a soda every day, sometimes before 9am (and during finals she has both before 9am). I come home and there's massive amounts of candy on the table or in the fridge, and there's about 5 cans of different flavor frosting sitting right in the middle of the fridge with more in the cabinets since she'll sometimes eat a can of frosting for a meal.

Last semester I experienced the same intense cravings and I thought they were due to stress, but as soon as I was home, they stopped and I haven't been stressed about classes so far this semester which is why I'm thinking it's more that now the reminder is there.

It seems the easiest way for me to not get these cravings is out of site, out of mind (or out of house, out of mind) but that's just not possible at the moment. There has got to be another way to deal with these when the temptation is all around you. I can't just avoid my roommate and all her sugar for a year until I finish my schooling on the island and move back to the states.

Are there good snack type foods I should keep my eye out for in the grocery store? Or any other tricks?

Eire228

I have a similar problem. My roommate, who somehow manages to stay skinny, constantly has things like poptarts, cheetos, sugary cereals, peanut butter cups, snickers, funyons... and she's an excellent baker, and insists on making brownies or cookies from scratch all the time. The only way I can avoid eating those foods is making sure my foods are on a separate shelf and telling myself they're hers, and if I eat them she'll know (even though she tells me all the time to help myself. I tell myself I can't, they aren't mine!)

To avoid stealing her Reese's peanut butter cups (surely she wouldn't notice one little piece missing, right?), I buy dark chocolate pieces for myself. It's enough to satisfy my craving, but not enough to ruin my goals for the day. So if you can, find an alternative to the sweets that you're craving because of your roommate.

To satisfy the salty cravings, I get lightly salted popcorn (or make my own). Skinny Pop and Boom Chicka Pop have delicious popcorn at only 35 calories a cup.

Is there any way you can ask your roommate to keep these sweet treats in a different cabinet or drawer? Like you said, out of sight, out of mind!

Francl27

Her stuff. Off limits.

seeingthelight

Yep - I had to tell my husband and mother in law- buy your own treats (I do the grocery shopping and cooking)- then I say-"NOT MINE"! I buy myself fruit, bananas, apples and grapefruit, also fruited yogurts as my treats- still sugar but at least they have vitamins and fiber.