People with sweet toothe. Please help me survive.

Cutting sweets is one of the hardest things to do. What Is working for me is adding fruit during the day; small apple and string cheese or fresh mixed berries and 1/2 cup of cottage cheese for a snack, jell-o or Crunchies (Cinnamon dry freeze apples) (BTW they taste like apple pie!) for desert. Try the Crunches they are only 35 cal. for ½ a cup. I try to do it during the day when I am most active so I don't attack the cookies and crackers for my kid’s lunches when I get home from work.

Going cold turkey is hard, so I didn't. Instead I bought a bag of Godiva dark chocolate caramels (they have them at Boston Store and a lot of grocery stores) 5 pieces 200cal, 11g fat, 23g carbs, 2g protein calcium 4% iron 6%. I have one with lunch, one with my mid afternoon snack and one after dinner. Don't feel deprived and I can fit the 120cal/day into my food plan. with 20 per bag they are a delicious indulgence. If chocolate is not your sweet craving find what is and get the good stuff so a little will go a long way.

Focusing on protein, fat & quality carbs (veggies & whole grains) really does help me not consume so much sugar... and it helps with cravings as well. I think sugar is one of the hardest things to cut back on if you tend to crave it. Just make sure you are getting adequate nutrition, water & sleep... and that you aren't getting too much caffeine. All those things have really helped me. When I pay more attention to the bigger picture, the sugar does seem to take care of itself.

I like sugar-free kool-aid...sweet without killing me

Start counting your days calories from supper time to supper time instead of breakfast to breakfast. Count the candy you eat and in the morning and at lunch you may have to cut back to keep within your daily calories. This won't help with your eating candy but it is a way to keep your cals. under control. It will also show you the calorie cost of candy.

Hersheys Bliss Dark Chocolate Squares ~ just two of them is satisfying enough ... let them melt on their own in your mouth, yummy!

I think that it helps to get the low calorie snacks. I like the 100 calorie cookies from Nabisco and the Fiber One 90 snacks. I love snacks and I have at least one each day and still manage to keep my calories low. Also Special K has some great snack choices as well. :happy:

I've been eating popsicles. They are sweet. Chewing the ice makes me feel like I ate something. And it's only 50 calories for both sides of a twin pop. Zero nutritional value for sure, but better than a snickers.

I swear by watermelon. I have a horrible sweet tooth. Two entire cups of it only has 100 calories. When I'm craving cakes and things, I eat that and it completely takes the craving away.

try dark chocolate covered peanuts or pb and cocoa spread on toast or with plain yogurt or milk you get your chocolate fix protien and calcium at the same time./ cocoa and cottage cheese or a small amount of sugar free jello and cottage cheese are some options my dietition recomended for me they do help peanut butter milk and ice blended together as a smoothie or shake add a little cocoa and these are cheaper too but taste good freeze sugar free pudding into pops eat instead of icecream flavor your water with mio or crysle light packets chew sugar free gum mint chocolate chip strawberry shortcake or plain old fresh or frozen friut is a favorite of mine and oatmeal you can have many different ways special k has many different snacks for on the go protien bars are also good because they help you feel full yogurt has all kinds of flavors and you can have sugar free cake and iceing now too pillsbury makes a good one just remember portions google ideas also and dietitions have the newest finds good luck on you journey hope this helped

I make sure to buy snacks and sweets that my husband enjoys but I don't like (like coconut cookies ::ew::).. I do not have the perfect diet like a lot of people- I cannot at this point make that big of a lifestyle change and be successful. With that being said I keep things that I like out of eyesight, like at the very bottom shelf of the pantry or the bottom door of the refigerator.

My best defense at not devouring the 280 calorie Little Debbies my husband loves so much is to put them in his container of snacks in the pantry and throw away the box they came in (besides they pay people to make them look even more appetizing on the box right) His container of snacks is full of stuff I mostly don't like so I don't go digging through it looking for those brownies!

I also keep Hershey Kisses in the refrigerator. When I want something sweet and chocolate-y I go get 1-2, at 22 calories each they're almost guiltless (to me). We're talking about a maximum of 44 calories plus I had to walk to the kitchen and do a squat to get them! When I eat them I try not to chew them and since they're nice and cold they take a little while to melt in my mouth so I really get my 22 calories worth!

Good luck fighting off the cravings!

I eat fruit, every day and typically yogurt with fruit in it too. As a result I can limit myself to one cookie at night or a small amount of dark chocolate.

I don't go crazy because I don't deny myself and I've already been to the gym so I know how much I can have and if I feel like may want more than my normal before going to the gym I may put in extra cardio so I can.

It keeps me from going crazy on sweets. But really the thing that keeps me from going crazy is having some (and not ALL)

I grab a pound of strawberries and go to town with 0 guilt.