Cravings after eating...

Both! I'm sure many people here get the same craving - I know I do!
Remember it's alright to treat to something sweet sometimes when you really feel like it

I buy me sweet 100calorie snacks or Skinny Cow ice cream is real good. Also sweet freedom ice cream is good too. Only have any were from 100-150 calories. Not to bad and it fixes to sweet craving. )

It's mental/a habit. When watching calories, I'd have a piece of hard candy or chew some gum. Normally that's enough to meet my brain's requirements (even though I'd rather have chocolate lava cake topped with ice cream).

I actually read that it is from a lack of "something" in your diet.. I wish I remember what that "something" was danggit I was taking a liquid supplement for a while that was 100% fruit and plant based and I no longer had that strong craving so I believe it has some truth. I sometimes still wanted it - but I wasn't about to take out old people and small children to get to it like I was before. I am no longer taking that supplement so now I just take my regular daily supplements before I eat my lunch and that seems to help. I also drink an Emergen-C if I still feel like I want to shove an entire chocolate cake in my face and that seems to help too. BUT, 9 times out of 10, I eat a small piece of dark chocolate and account for the calories as part of my meal. It also brings closure to the meal and tells my brain to chill out dude, we are done eating.

It's worth considering if it's causef by *what* you are eating (or not eating). Does it happen *every* time or just after certain meals?

Depends on what I eat at those meals. If I eat something with tomato sauce I crave a sweet. When I crave a sweet I eat something, frozen fat free fudge bar usually.

I completely relate. I wonder if it's that "yin and yang" thing where we want the opposite of what we just had. Here's a weird suggestion that usually works for me: suck on a menthol cough drop. It has just enough sweet, and the menthol gives you that "brushed my teeth" feeling so you don't want to keep eating.

this started when i was in college. i don't even really like chocolate that much, but i always crave it after a meal! what i do is buy a bag of hershey kisses and eat one after dinner. it's like, 20 some calories and satisfies my craving

if you are craving sweets, you should talk to your doctor about taking Chromium Picolinate (I think I spelled that right). It kind of tricks your body into thinking its sugar so that you won't crave sugar...Used with diabetics a lot and its in some of the diet supplements out there. I have a CP pill that i take before dinner as that is my heaviest craving time of day. Good luck.

I crave protein. If I've not had enough, I am not satisfied after a meal.
Greek Yogurt (plain, sweetened with stevia) cuts this for me.
Also a fizzy lo-cal drink like Cas Cal or Zevia or GT Dave's Synergy. Put it over ice, and enjoy!
Also, sometimes it seems it's just TIME for a big bowl of steamed broccoli.
We're all different!

i crave salty crunchy or fatty stuff, not sweets so much.

When i eat, my stomach turns ON!!
"More, more, more!" my stomach yells out.

so usually, not always but usually,
i only eat in the evenings anyway. Never hungry in daytimes, and if i DO eat in daytime, i end up having urge to eat more more more.

plus, eating makes me sleepy. so i eat in evenings.
always have,
even back when i was a runner.

but, if anyone wants to argue, that is not the way to do it, fine. whatever.