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brittanylamar16

Hello guys! So I've recently started doing cross fit and decided to change my bad eating habits to help me lose weight. Everything is going great except for the sugar cravings!!!! I have a bad sweet tooth towards ice cream. I can easily give up the chips and pizza but I'm having a hard time with the cravings. I was told that taking b complex and chromium for it. Would you agree? Any tips? Thanks!

malibu927

I've never heard of that, but I have ice cream several times a week while losing. I just fit 1-2 servings (depending on the brand) into my calories.

TeaBea

malibu927 wrote: »

I've never heard of that, but I have ice cream several times a week while losing. I just fit 1-2 servings (depending on the brand) into my calories.

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Learn how to manage your eating habits forever. I can only eliminate foods for so long, that doesn't bode well for maintenance.

Can you go out for ice cream once a week in the beginning? I do well with individual portions of ice cream. Skinny Cow, Weight Watchers......light ice cream bars fit nicely.

I can fit pizza in too - one meat and thin crust and veggies. Always having salad on the side allows me to eat less pizza. Homemade pizza can be good too. Turkey pepperoni is much lower in fat.

wizzybeth

Manage your cravings, don't let them manage you. Some folks will try to suck you in to restrictive diets where you cut out all the foods you love and all it does in the long run is make you miserable.

Plan for and allow treats like your ice cream in your day or week. If you know you can have some then it won't seem so tempting, and it won't be "bad" either. One thing I hate to see is when people call eating treats "being bad." It's not.

Enjoy your ice cream - but you control it. Don't let it control you.

diannethegeek

brittanylamar16 wrote: »

Hello guys! So I've recently started doing cross fit and decided to change my bad eating habits to help me lose weight. Everything is going great except for the sugar cravings!!!! I have a bad sweet tooth towards ice cream. I can easily give up the chips and pizza but I'm having a hard time with the cravings. I was told that taking b complex and chromium for it. Would you agree? Any tips? Thanks!

It's kind of a catch-22. Yeah, supplements *might* help if you're deficient in those particular nutrients BUT it's not a good idea to start taking supplements unless your doctor has diagnosed the deficiency and recommended a dosage for you.

Depending on how you decide to move forward, there are some options like Yasso, Skinny Cow, Halo Top, or classic fudge pops that might give you a lower calorie way to fulfill that craving until you get everything into balance.

callsitlikeiseeit

make room in your calories for ice cream.

problem solved.

saraonly9913

Halo Top, Artic Zero, Breyer's pints

kgeyser

If you think you can moderate your ice cream intake, weigh out portions that fit in your calories or choose some single serving ice cream treats that will fit in your calories.

If you cannot moderate it, some people have had luck cutting it out completely and find the cravings disappear over time.

You may find that you can do one or the other depending on the food, so while cutting some foods out is easy, others you might have better success by moderating, and vice versa.