Cravings!!!

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  • elkhunter7x6
    elkhunter7x6 Posts: 88 Member
    WBB55 wrote: »
    Save room in your calorie total for a sensible treat. Some people save calories for daily ice cream, chocolate, glass of wine. No need to give up the things you enjoy if you plan ahead for those calories by shaving a few calories off of dinner or another meal.
    ^^This. I eat some kinda little junk food like weight watchers ice creame, jelly beans, m&M ect. 2-4 times a week.


  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
    ms937babi wrote: »
    OK. I'm back on a fitness journey. And I noticed I can eat healthy(counting calories, and better food choices,) exercise, and drink water so easy its not hard for me.. However at night before I go to bed I crave sweets!! Its a everyday thing. The cravings are so Strong that I can't go to bed. All I think abt is cookies, pies, chocolate and cake.. I find it strange that these cravings hit me nightly. Even if I go for a healthy snack option such as fruit. I still have cravings for sweets. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can deal with these cravings?? These late night snacks are hurting my weight loss progress

    I save the majority of my calories for the evening and have smaller lunches and snacks. I'll eat a larger dinner, and I'll often have calories at the end of the evening for a sweet snack. I'm a fan of ice cream, so I'll usually go for that or gelato. Something with a lot of flavor, and I'll savor it. I've found now that I understand what an actual serving of ice cream is (and it seems so small compared to the bowlfuls I used to eat), as long as I buy something very flavorful, I am satisfied after the single serving.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    mccindy72 wrote: »
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    AlabasterVerve wrote: »
    Eat less of the the healthy foods during the day or exercise more to allow calories for the sweets at night.

    Alternately, you can stop eating the foods that cause cravings on a regular basis and the cravings will go away -- you have to exert a little more willpower up front with the second approach but for many it's worth it to be free of the cravings and compulsive eating.

    Agreed. I used to have the STRONGEST cravings for processed sweets, junk, etc. Over time I built up more willpower to go easier on them and eventually slowly but surely switch to natural sweets and healthier foods. Now I find regular sweets, junk food, etc. disgusting and wouldn't touch them with a ten foot poll. As my psychology professor said, it takes approximately 30 days to break a habit (that's just the average though).

    As for OP, you can try small amounts of dried fruit, banana "ice cream" (look it up on google), very dark chocolate (90% is tasty), homemade p-butter cookies sweetened with honey or stevia, homemade fruit smoothie, etc. As for eating late at night, it's completely fine. In fact, I do it all the time (I eat cottage cheese right before bed so I have slow digesting protein overnight).

    Banana 'ice cream' is no better for you than the real thing. Bananas have a lot of sugar in them ans calories, why not just have the real thing? It's got a lot more protein than a bunch of mashed up bananas. This obsession with 'healthy' foods over other foods is a little ridiculous. Dried fruit has concentrated sugar and is high in calories. Issues can be found with just about anything one could find to eat. If there is room in the calorie goal at the end of the day, and a craving is there, just eat what is craved (a serving of it) so it fits in the calorie goal. Stop obsessing over it.

    Perhaps her palate is now able to detect and reject the nasty artificial ingredients in some convenience foods.

    You are sadly deluded about ingredients in food.

    I edited my post because I figured you'd misunderstand what I meant.

    Oh, I understood it. You seem to take a great deal of pleasure in pointing out things which aren't even in the realm of close to the truth of the post you're quoting. Nothing I mentioned has anything to do with convenience food, and many convenience foods have no artificial ingredients in them. You use such broad terms - "artificial", "convenience", "processed", without thinking of the possibility that when you break those categories down, there are actually many subcategories that don't fit what you're trying to say.

    You quoted a post about "processed sweets, junk, etc" - how does that not relate to "convenience food", which is tertiary processed food?

    Quite often people use "junk" to refer to any low nutrient, calorie dense foods, like my homemade cookies or pie.
  • Kimegatron
    Kimegatron Posts: 772 Member
    Last night I had so many calories left after exercising... That I was able to have a half pint of Ben & Jerry's. I was so happyyyyyy
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