Chewing Gum At Night - Mitigate Craving?

jsuh1993
jsuh1993 Posts: 28 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Had an interesting conversation with my friend about chewing gum. Besides some limited studies that showed sugar+chewing action that can temporarily relieve sleepiness.. I was wondering if anyone chews gum at night on purpose to mitigate craving. Couldn't simple action of chewing and swallowing make your brain think you are eating?!

And I am referring to sugar free types with less than 5 cal a gum. Do you think anything fruity will only increase your craving for something sweet?

Just an interesting thought, I was thinking!

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  • lyndseybellz
    lyndseybellz Posts: 62 Member
    i chew gum just about every waking moment of the day. i think it does curb my cravings for anything-- not just sweets necessarily.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    No I do not.

    I chew gum twice a day every day and do so even way before I eat my first meal.

    I chew the Wrigley's Fruit Chews gum sugar free. I think this is the most bizarre and extremely bogus thing I have ever heard. The more I am alive, the stranger things get.
  • IsMollyReallyHungry
    IsMollyReallyHungry Posts: 15,385 Member
    I find it does help me from binging, and I drink some water with gum. My favorite gum Eclipse
  • rosebarnalice
    rosebarnalice Posts: 3,488 Member
    I dont chew gum any more. I find the saliva production stimulates cravings and symptoms of hunger even of I've eaten plenty of calories. Water for me, thank you.
  • tara_means_star
    tara_means_star Posts: 957 Member
    I find that if I'm just wanting to eat in order to have something to do or to have some sort of taste in my mouth, chewing gum (and drinking hot tea for that matter) are effective in keeping me from going over my calories.
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    It helped me when I was cutting, yeah. I chomp on a lot of gum...so much so I actually have to log it :#

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