what do you do when you want something sweet?

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  • MystiqueASAP
    MystiqueASAP Posts: 747
    I just have what I crave to get it out of the way. I don't deny myself.
  • Lleldiranne
    Lleldiranne Posts: 5,516 Member
    For me, it depends on what kind of sweet I want. Sometimes fruit or a homemade fruit smoothie hits the spot. Sometimes I want something creamier, and skinny cow ice cream is just right (sometimes yogurt hits the spot, sometimes I just have a small amount of regular ice cream), sometimes what I really want is a few squares of chocolate.

    I have found that when I have a small kind of the sweet that I am craving I do fine. If I try to substitute something else I am often not satisfied and end up going for more and more attempts and get over calories :laugh:
  • peggymenard
    peggymenard Posts: 246 Member
    I can't keep chocolate in the house or I will eat it all. When I have to have a reward, I will get a Ghirardelli carmel filled bar. Since I have been on MFP, I haven't had any.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,990 Member
    Diet Pepsi.

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  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    ice cream or chocolate cake
  • mystiedragonfly
    mystiedragonfly Posts: 189 Member
    PROTEIN PUDDING

    Ingredients
    ½ cup low fat Cottage Cheese
    ¼ cup granulated Splenda
    Cocoa, dry powder, unsweetened, 2 tbsp
    ½ scoop chocolate whey protein

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    Blend all ingredients in blender until smooth and creamy! Then place in fridge for 20-30 min. Enjoy
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  • MissNations
    MissNations Posts: 513 Member
    Dark chocolate.
  • CakeFit21
    CakeFit21 Posts: 2,521 Member
    I usually just eat something sweet. Cake, ice cream, pie, almond croissant, a giant cookie as big as my face. Or sometimes, I drink a really great cup of coffee, black.
  • rahrahrita
    rahrahrita Posts: 225 Member
    a teaspoon of nutella.. either by itself or on half of a banana
    or a teaspoon of peanut butter and a bit of honey and i just suck on the spoon and savor it

    or... if it's a day like today where i just don't really care, i go to Dairy Queen and get a mini blizzard :P
  • innocent75
    innocent75 Posts: 57 Member
    Whatever I want. lol Everything in moderation. ;) If I want a little bit of ice cream I will have some. I just don't go overboard like I used to.

    I, as well, eat what I am craving. This is ok once in a while in moderation for me. I find if I don't " bite the bullet" I will break down and gorge myself on something.
  • graelwyn
    graelwyn Posts: 1,340 Member
    I have a naturally sweet tooth. I am safe around crisps and all manner of savoury things, but put me near cake, ice cream, chocolate or cookies if I am craving and ... well, I am sure many of you have had the same experience.

    I tend to go for Kallo chocolate coated rice cake thins and have 4 of those for 200 calories, or my latest discovery, banana crisps, which come in at around 240 for 50 grammes and are naturally sweet.

    In the evening, I have Fage 0% with some jam and pb2 mixed in, and later on, a pear. That usually sorts out the sweet craving.

    I sometimes get a bag of dark chocolate chips, and they seem lots because of their size.

    I have fruit sorbet if I am in an ice cream sort of a mood, or treat myself to just one Mars ice cream bar, or somesuch.

    That time of the month, I have normal chocolate and hope to goodness I don't binge on it, lol.

    I avoid cereal bars and the like as I never found them very filling or satisfying and many are packed with artificial stuff.
  • Tzippy7
    Tzippy7 Posts: 344 Member
    3 options
    1) suck it up and chew a piece of gum
    2) cry
    3) eat a sweet. I always have leftover calories from working out.
  • Cait_Sidhe
    Cait_Sidhe Posts: 3,150 Member
    I eat something sweet.

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