Major sweet tooth
Afitbeginning
Posts: 31 Member
Hi,
I've tried losing weight multiple times and whilst I do ok at the beginning I always fall of the wagon. My main downfall is that I can eat a filling meal but still feel hungry, I'll feel this way until I've had something sweet or chocolate and then I'll feel full.
What are the healthy alternatives to sweet things, fruit doesn't quite curb the craving and I'm fed up of stuffing my face with absolute rubbish.
I've tried losing weight multiple times and whilst I do ok at the beginning I always fall of the wagon. My main downfall is that I can eat a filling meal but still feel hungry, I'll feel this way until I've had something sweet or chocolate and then I'll feel full.
What are the healthy alternatives to sweet things, fruit doesn't quite curb the craving and I'm fed up of stuffing my face with absolute rubbish.
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I'd be interested to see what foods you're logging on a daily basis. What is a normal day for you, food wise?1
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I have the same issues. I don't fight it anymore. I make sure I leave room in my day for a treat after dinner. Usually I have a Skinny Cow Salted Caramel Pretzel Ice Cream bar (160 calories), or a Yasso bar for 100 calories. Or I have a *really* small serving of Ben and Jerry's? Do you see a theme here? I like ice cream!!!5
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Why not eat something sweet or chocolate to finish the meal?
I finish my breakfast every day with a 50-calorie square of dark chocolate. I have a box of Junior Mints in my cabinet - each one is 10 calories - and I'll let one slowly dissolve in my mouth when I want something sweet. I have a tub of Mini Chips Ahoy - each of which is about 11 calories - and I'll have one if I want a cookie. I keep a few individually-wrapped Life Savers in my purse so that I can have one when I'm away from home and want something sweet.
Weight loss is about consuming fewer calories than your body uses. If avoiding "rubbish" foods makes you fall off the wagon, try working them into your plan.4 -
Have something sweet after your meal then, just keep the calories within your limit. You can eat sweets and still lose weight. Try keeping single servings and/or reduced calorie sweet treats on hand. A fun size Snickers is only 80 calories.2
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Have you tried stopping all sugar for two weeks? I found that 14-30 days without something makes me lose the craving.
When I really need a sweet I like Dannon Greek yogurts, apples, etc.
After stopping them they might taste different to you when you try them again.
Another thing that has helped me is realizing how long it takes me to work it off.6 -
I have this problem. I found out that carbs make me hungrier and sugar is the worst one. So i went low carb and I find I have much less cravings. While I don't think carbs are bad per say, I do have a sugar addiction and the carbs feed that. So, when i do eat carbs, I will have something like spaghetti squash that has a lot of fiber, or a whole apple, but not bread or pasta or rice. All of which tend to make me crave sugar or be hungry an hour after i eat. If you do cut carbs though be sure to fill the calories in with healthy fats, do not go low carbs and low fat. And you can loose weight on high fat diet, don't be afraid of fat so long as you don't go over your cals.
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Have your dessert! I buy little individually wrapped fun size chocolates. Dollar stores tend to have a good variety.2
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Eat the sweets that will satisfy your cravings, just in a controlled amount. This is where going the the store and buying just a single serving will you help you out. If there's only 1 single serving of ice cream in the house that's all you can eat.1
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I eat 40 calorie Dove Dark Chocolate Promises or a few calories of Ovaltine in my coffee almost every day. I save 150 cals for a snack after dinner, which is sometimes chocolate ice cream. I drink chocolate flavored protein powder when I'm short my protein goal for the day. Sometimes associating guilt with a food makes it harder to resist - tell yourself there is nothing wrong with having a little chocolate (because there isn't).4
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Protein cheesecake
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Skinny popcorn is one option. I also eat fruit or I get a pot of Greek yoghurt and mix in honey, seeds, banana and peanut butter powder. Dark chocolate is another option or a frozen yoghurt bar. Just make room for something after your dinner.0
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Thank you everyone for your help, I will try and control the portion. I tend to binge on sugary food, I just can't stop x0
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I am such a sugar addict. I find that even artificial sweeteners trigger it! I am sworn off added sugar and all sweeteners for now because once I start I find that all other aspects of my diet start to fall away. I have been mostly sugar free since August of last year. I had a relapse two months ago due to caving in to a bag of marshmallows which I bought for Memorial day picnic. I re-gained about 10 lbs back from my recent weight loss, much to my despair. I have once again gotten back onto my sugar free horse. I know a lot of people can have a sugary snack every day, but I am just one of those who cannot. I do find that eating fruit with breakfast and lunch help a lot! I know there are people who will say "well that is sugar" but that kind of sugar is completely natural and comes with fiber, which helps with the absorption into the blood stream. I limit fruits to two pieces a day and eat them only with my meals. Hope that helps.2
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Afitbeginning wrote: »Thank you everyone for your help, I will try and control the portion. I tend to binge on sugary food, I just can't stop x
Agree that the problem is figuring out how to stop. Everyone is different. If I have a wrapped up ice cream treat such as a Skinny Cow, Outshine Bar, etc., I'm good. 99% of the time I can keep a box of them in the house and not eat more than one at a time. A bag of Hershey's Kisses, York Peppermint Patties, bite-sized candy bars, even Lifesaver's Mints, are a problem for me. I cannot stop at one or two. They are like potato chips for me. Their size is too small and not enough. I end up eating 10 (or more).
If you have serious binge problems then it is good, for awhile, to just go off of it all cold turkey and then try to ease back in.2 -
I've had the same problem my whole life- I am like CMNVA, and have to stop the addiction to stop the craving. I find that for me sitting around at night is a real problem, so I try to find something to do... the TV watching thing is really really bad for me.
I've yo-yo'd back and forth about 10-15 lbs my whole life, and the only method that's helped me is to go cold turkey for a while too...0 -
I'll have a protein bar that's covered in chocolate. Gives me my chocolate/sweet fix and great for my macros3
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Yoghurt, coco powder , bananas and peanut butter and if you have some macros to fill in add a scoop of Nutella0
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sunsweet77 wrote: »Have you tried stopping all sugar for two weeks? I found that 14-30 days without something makes me lose the craving.
When I really need a sweet I like Dannon Greek yogurts, apples, etc.
After stopping them they might taste different to you when you try them again.
Another thing that has helped me is realizing how long it takes me to work it off.
I went from drinking 2 to 4 littres of soda a day and whatever candy or other junk came my way to no sugar and Went from 191 to 173 in 60 days. I am also working out like a maniac and building up muscle mass so i know the fast loss is more but has been replaced by muscle. I feel completely different and I'm not going back.
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Yogurt? Those ones with mix ins usually help me. But I have the same problem most of the time, OP
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I bought a Godiva chocolate bar from Kohls. Its a dark chocolate with cocoa nibs, I eat two squares a day. It says there's two servings,at 6 squares each serving for 220 calories, so I just eat two squares and i get my fix,I love chocolate and I am not about to white knuckle this when im already eating a 1200 calorie meal plan,im going to fit in something that makes me feel good!2
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Afitbeginning wrote: »Thank you everyone for your help, I will try and control the portion. I tend to binge on sugary food, I just can't stop x
You can stop. It might be hard, especially at first, but you can do it. Just think about what you want in the long term.2 -
i've been falling back on some majorly disordered eating as of late too, mostly with sweets. super frustrating, and discouraging.
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I also have a major sweet tooth. Some things I keep around:
Dark chocolate
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Danon light & fit Greek yogurt (so sweet!)
Fruit
Sugar free cinnamon candies
Gum
Fruit smoothies with yogurt are a favorite dessert option of mine.0 -
Thank you all for your tips and advice! Xx0
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This is going to sound ridiculous but I am always low on calcium so I bought some of those chocolate chews that provide calcium. One of those in evenings hits the sweet tooth spot. Gummy multivitamin works for me too. There are arguments about the benefits (or lack of) for those kind of multivitamins, but it works for me!2
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if you can make yourself go without sweets for a couple weeks, your tastes will change. Your cravings will go away, then when you eat something a little sweet, like blueberries, the sweetness will be delicious. but I think in your case you may allow yourself some sweet, and record it on MFP, work it into your day's food, this method is for those who feel not eating a treat will make the diet drudgery and you wont want to sustain it. so find a way you can eat the rest of your life, and if that includes a sweet treat, but your still losing weight, do that. but I have done the first method and it is the best for me. totally cured my cravings for sweets. I know though if I start eating it again, (the junk food) I will again crave it so much. so you have to find what works for you.1
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if you can make yourself go without sweets for a couple weeks, your tastes will change. Your cravings will go away, then when you eat something a little sweet, like blueberries, the sweetness will be delicious. but I think in your case you may allow yourself some sweet, and record it on MFP, work it into your day's food, this method is for those who feel not eating a treat will make the diet drudgery and you wont want to sustain it. so find a way you can eat the rest of your life, and if that includes a sweet treat, but your still losing weight, do that. but I have done the first method and it is the best for me. totally cured my cravings for sweets. I know though if I start eating it again, (the junk food) I will again crave it so much. so you have to find what works for you.
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Protein cheesecake
I have one or the other, sometimes both... For dessert every single night.
OP Here's the recipe i use for the cheesecake, except i swapped the cream cheese for cottage cheese. I use salted caramel protein powder.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10500016/low-calorie-protein-cheesecake/p11 -
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Afitbeginning wrote: »Thank you everyone for your help, I will try and control the portion. I tend to binge on sugary food, I just can't stop x
Then I would suggest either getting single serve desserts/snacks
Example:
Buying either a single serve candy bar or King Size at the grocery store and fitting it in your calories that particular day.
Make a mug cake (tons of recipes online)
Or buy desserts/snacks that you can moderate
I've started to make protein ice cream on the days I work and on the days I have off I eat regular ice cream. Edy's Slow Churned flavors are good and the Pumpkin Patch flavor is 90 calories for 60 grams. Usually if my calories permit I'll have 4-5 servings.
My Grandma used to take graham crackers and Cool Whip and make a faux ice cream sandwich and then freeze it.1
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