Craving sugar!!!!!!! HELP

I start hallucinating whenever I pass a donut shop. Here are a few things that I do when I crave a Krispy Kreme.
1. Tell myself over and over and over again "the donut will still be there when I lose the weight" (hopefully not that specific donut)
2. Grab some fruit - yes - it's still sugar but it's not as damaging as a snicker bar.
3. Drink a tall glass of iced water (I've figured out that hunger is sometimes misinterpreted for thirst)
4. Light and Fit Greek Yogurt with fruit on the bottom hits the spot sometimes
5. If all else fails, eat the sweet (be sure to savor it) and get back on the wagon

I crave sweets around 9:30pm, and instead of eating them, I brush my teeth. I do this because I will not want to brush my teeth again before bed, and most of the time it stops me from eating sweets late at night. I hope this helps with some of it.

Why do that, Health Gal? I'm allowed 100 calories for snacks. I'm allowed to eat snacks twice a day. I also eat every three hours and I keep my calories right at 1,200.

I will microwave a pear in water then sprinkle cinnamon & splenda on it! Also, you can slice a banana and sprinkle cinnamon and drizzle honey over itl Those r healthy and yummy

Skinny Cows are a great choice if you need sugar....I just can't have too many of that in my house or I will eat them ALL! lol

Skinny Cow is the greatest thing Ever. low calorie treats that taste GOOD. I ate one of these Ice cream sandwiches almost every day last year while I lost over 100 pounds. Only way to deal with a sweet tooth is to feed it, just do not go overboard.

Those things are small and don't fill me up personally which leads to overeating (might as well have had that donut if I have to eat 5 Skinny Cows to feel full/mentally satisfied.

Fruit, veggies, greek yogurt are awesome treats.. I found once I cut out processed foods (as much as possible), I actually didn't crave sugar anymore

I agree Skinny cow products are the best thing when you crave sugar, I'm a chocoholic, I crave it every moment of the day. What I now do is drink a large glass of ice water first then have a sundae or one of the caramel cookies, it doesn't completely kill the craving all the time but it does take the edge off of it.

You could try a supplement of Chromium to help with sugar cravings.

But really the ONLY thing that will stop them is to quit eating sugar for a while and break the ADDICTION that you have.

Anything with sugar is just gonna add fuel to the fire. Even fruit - it's good for you but if you are in a sugar crave/addiction cycle and you eat fruit to satisfy that craving, you're still fueling it (though it's much healthier than junk).
I totally empathize - as I was there just a month ago. I pretty much stalled all year last year because I got in a habit of eating an extra 500 cals of candy everyday and even though I was in a deficit overall - my body just wasn't happy with it. I am doing the Whole30 right now for the sheer purpose of breaking the sugar addiction. It's extreme but it has worked so far!
All things in moderation - if you can't do sweet anything in moderation right now, try going cold turkey for a bit to cut off that sugar monster and then slowly add in a little at a time again.

I am still a very emotional eater, despite my best efforts. If I get in a really bad mood, and I crave junk...I eat it. However, I do not diet...I have changed my eating lifestyle completely. Therefore, when I get in these moods and eat something bad, it is a short-term thing that typically has no real affect on weight or my measurements. It does 1 of 2 things: Mentally makes me feel better, and if I eat too much of the junk, I end up losing interest in that item and usually don't eat anymore or at least for months.

If you are bent on dieting, and want alternatives, I recommend checking out stuff like Quest bars, Target's Market Pantry stuff, or checking out Special K snack bars. Quest is an all-natural super healthy bar...I eat the brownie ones like crazy. I say the Target stuff because they use less sugar and processed junk than the name brand equivalents. Special K is good just because they focus on portion control...although, if I was in a bad mood, goodbye box of snack bars. Hope this helps.

I understand those exclamation points!!! I have had an endless battle with sugar. I have difficulty eating a reasonable portion of dessert and stopping there. It's easier for me to not have sugar at all, because when it's in my system I just crave it more and more. When I eat sweets, there's and endless chatter in my head telling me to consume more sweets.

There are lots of people that do NOT have my problem and for them, a small daily treat is OK. For me, I have to try to stick with fruit and herbal teas sweetened with Stevia.

Good luck to you!

Yes--I would agree with this. Once you get the sugar out of your system, you find that you don't crave it anymore. But you must replace the "empty" calories of sugar with nourishing choices of food. I think that most here would agree that eating too little and eating non-nourishing food gives rise to cravings and binging. I have been off sugar for three years and have not binged once in that time.

As long as I was eating sugar, nothing good was happening to my body. I would start a "diet" with good intentions but after a while, I would get so hungry. And then I would reach for junk food, usually something sweet. And that would be the end of my diet.

The physical craving for sugar goes away in about a week--give or take a few days. During the course of riding that out, I would recommend eating right up to your calorie limit with LOTS of vegetables, good fats and protein (I wouldn't worry about going over in the fat or protein macros temporarily). You might want to avoid eating fruit during that "sugar detox" period as I found that eating fruit intensified the physical craving for a sugary treat. You also might want to cut back on bread as well--replacing the missing carbohydrate calories with fat calories. Once you get past that period, as long as you stay away from sugar, you will be free of any physical craving and you can add back one or two pieces of low-fructose fruit per day and not have to fear that it will trigger a binge.

Unfortunately, the mental craving for sugary foods lasts a bit longer but after staying away from it for a while, that goes away too. Now, when I look at a cupcake, I don't even WANT it, Good luck.