fruit to curb my demonic chocolate/ice cream consumption.

wumba84
wumba84 Posts: 14
in Food and Nutrition
I work out a lot and fluctuate quite a bit. I know mainly my weight gains are caused by overreating and my love of Reeses cups, ice cream, brownies, etc. I also like fruit and hoping the natural sugars will help me ween off to a much healthier alternative.

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  • tiggsnanny
    tiggsnanny Posts: 366 Member
    I am a terrible chocoholic :ohwell: i'm not really a fruit lover, but i'm trying to eat more fruit in the hope it will curb my sweet tooth :smile:
  • MysteriousMerlin
    MysteriousMerlin Posts: 2,270 Member
    Apples and peanut butter really kill a chocolate craving for me.
  • SunofaBeach14
    SunofaBeach14 Posts: 4,899 Member
    Is it possible for you to simply portion control your sweets and continue to enjoy them? I love fruit and eat quite a bit, but nothing can replace good ice cream.
  • LolBroScience
    LolBroScience Posts: 4,537 Member
    Or you can just portion your servings and still maintain your love of chocolate/ice cream.
  • Maggie1975
    Maggie1975 Posts: 2
    I freeze blueberries and then eat them when I am craving something sweet. I also allow myself some Dark Chocolate each day. Knowing that I can have that helps.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    Yah doesn't work for me...I just portion out my chocolate (chocolate covered almonds lately) and eat what fits in my calorie goal.
  • SugaryLynx
    SugaryLynx Posts: 2,640 Member
    I just learned to portion it out and fit it into my day. There's no way I'd give up my ice cream. I like fruit but not that much. I just eat most of my calories in nutrient dense foods and then squeeze some ice cream in before bed. ;) Up to you but cutting things out isn't a sustainable approach for me.
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    Why would sugar wean you off your love of sugar? Sugar is sugar.
  • ShellyBell999
    ShellyBell999 Posts: 1,482 Member
    Apples and peanut butter really kill a chocolate craving for me.

    :flowerforyou:
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    Or super-dark chocolate. Darker chocolate is more satisfying than milk/lighter chocolates - less sugar, more intense flavor.

    That said, you'd need to experiment to see how dark you like it. The nearly pure stuff is so bitter I can't eat it plain. I'm usually good between 70-85% cocoa.
  • Pearsquared
    Pearsquared Posts: 1,656 Member
    You could combine the two and get a little bit of both worlds. Like dipping an apple in nutella. You'll be satisfied from the bulk of the apple, but still get the taste of nutella.
  • Amanda_Gx6
    Amanda_Gx6 Posts: 320 Member
    One banana, chocolate unsweetened almond milk, peanut butter and ice in the blender. Cravings taken care of :heart: :love: :heart:
  • dunnodunno
    dunnodunno Posts: 2,290 Member
    Frozen grapes are pretty tasty.

    I also like pineapple & mango in cottage cheese.
  • Beastmode454
    Beastmode454 Posts: 340 Member
    Apples and peanut butter really kill a chocolate craving for me.


    this helps me alot as well.

    or a banana with peanut butter
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    I rather just have the real stuff!!! I just fit it into my calories!! It works for me, see ticker below. :drinker:
  • eganita
    eganita Posts: 501 Member
    I'm also a big chocolate lover...

    One thing that has helped me are fudge pops. They are satisfying enough to help with both ice cream/chocolate cravings for me, and they're only 40 calories each. So you can even have 3 of them and be close to 100 calories.

    Of course there are days when this simply doesn't cut it, and I enjoy some REAL chocolate as well. I don't think there's anything wrong with that either.
  • McKenzieLeigh
    McKenzieLeigh Posts: 113 Member
    I eat a lot of fruit anyway, but my husband bought me these 90 calorie fiber one brownies and they are pretty good!
    At the end of the day when I need something sweet, I usually have room for 90 calories and the brownie really hits the spot.
    Have a little to avoid a binge when you eat everything but and still want it!
  • concordancia
    concordancia Posts: 5,320 Member
    Or super-dark chocolate. Darker chocolate is more satisfying than milk/lighter chocolates - less sugar, more intense flavor.

    That said, you'd need to experiment to see how dark you like it. The nearly pure stuff is so bitter I can't eat it plain. I'm usually good between 70-85% cocoa.

    They keep saying this, but I can gorge on anything short of baker's chocolate. Milk chocolate just leaves me "meh, why waste the calories?!"
  • Gemmz2014
    Gemmz2014 Posts: 220
    You could combine the two and get a little bit of both worlds. Like dipping an apple in nutella. You'll be satisfied from the bulk of the apple, but still get the taste of nutella.

    Omg I love Nutella!!!!!!! :heart:

    Nutella and bananas sounds yummy!
  • Nachise
    Nachise Posts: 395 Member
    My husband is the keeper of the chocolate. He doles it out judiciously.
  • runfatmanrun
    runfatmanrun Posts: 1,090 Member
    Or you can just portion your servings and still maintain your love of chocolate/ice cream.

    This. A serving of ice cream has less than 200 calories and usually in the mid 20s for grams of sugar. I like apples and peanut butter too however 1 medium apple and 1 serving of peanut butter will get you 300 calories and just under the sugar that your ice cream serving would have...and you still aren't getting the ice cream.
  • Gemmz2014
    Gemmz2014 Posts: 220
    I work out a lot and fluctuate quite a bit. I know mainly my weight gains are caused by overreating and my love of Reeses cups, ice cream, brownies, etc. I also like fruit and hoping the natural sugars will help me ween off to a much healthier alternative.

    IMO and this is just my opinion, there is no substituting chocolate with fruit. I can't imagine having an apple over an reeses cup and being satisfied. I like apples but it's just a different type of satisfaction than with chocolate.

    Do you binge when eating chocolate?
  • dunnodunno
    dunnodunno Posts: 2,290 Member
    You could combine the two and get a little bit of both worlds. Like dipping an apple in nutella. You'll be satisfied from the bulk of the apple, but still get the taste of nutella.

    Or Lotus Cookie Spread in Creamy or Crunchy. I could eat that stuff by the spoonful.
  • SwampWitch666
    SwampWitch666 Posts: 110 Member
    I refuse to give up dark chocolate. Absolutely refuse. I want my "diet" to be permanent, so I have to make this work without feeling like I'm depriving myself of the things that make me happy.

    Not to mention, while not exactly low in calories nor in fat, dark chocolate has an overwhelming of health benefits. Sometimes you just have to accept your cravings and look at the glass of chocolate milk half full. Just find a way to work it into your calories!

    As with all my "weakness foods", I keep them separated into "single servings" so that my calorie count is easy to keep track of. (For example, I home-make two dark chocolate/almond square sizes that are about either 75 or 150 calories each. I found that if I didn't pre-make and then separate my squares into the servings, then I would just wander into the kitchen and just dig into my dark chocolate bag... naughty! When I started separating them into servings/calories, I became much more aware of my intake... and thusly a bit more watchful!)
  • murphy612
    murphy612 Posts: 734 Member
    One banana, chocolate unsweetened almond milk, peanut butter and ice in the blender. Cravings taken care of :heart: :love: :heart:

    This sounds good!
  • tavenne323
    tavenne323 Posts: 332 Member
    Oranges have been my thing lately. It takes time to peel them...so they aren't a quick snack. I always joke that I'm going to get diabetes from eating too much fruit. I also love apples or bananas with almond butter. But I still crave chocolate.
  • sloth3toes
    sloth3toes Posts: 2,212 Member
    Yah doesn't work for me...I just portion out my chocolate (chocolate covered almonds lately) and eat what fits in my calorie goal.

    Have you tried chocolate covered JuJubes ?
  • eganita
    eganita Posts: 501 Member
    I eat a lot of fruit anyway, but my husband bought me these 90 calorie fiber one brownies and they are pretty good!
    At the end of the day when I need something sweet, I usually have room for 90 calories and the brownie really hits the spot.
    Have a little to avoid a binge when you eat everything but and still want it!

    I like the Fiber 1 brownies too... the chocolate ones as well as coffee cake. I will say, though, be careful with them.. haha! I get a lot of fiber in my diet from other sources, so if I have these Fiber brownies too often, it is a little too much fiber for my system... I'm fine having them every few days, though. They're pretty tasty.
  • hayleysuel
    hayleysuel Posts: 46 Member
    I buy a bag of frozen berries (blueberries, raspberries & blackberries) and process maybe a 1/2 cup in the food processor/blender & mix with a small ammount of lite/regular cool whip! It's ALMOST like ice cream... Almost..

    You could also add a few peices of dark chocolate, shredded coconut... You could dress it up to your liking.

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