How do you stop sweets craving?

I truly believe that sugar cravings are an addicition, or at least for me. Sigh. But the trick is restriction and moderation. If you're craving something sweet, eat a piece of fruit. If you're craving something chocolatey, eat a small square of dark (or as dark as you like) chocolate. IMO, it's better to have a little bit of something rather than deny yourself completely, go crazy, and eat the whole pint of ice cream (cause I've never done that...).

Up proteins a little bit and use dark choc.( drizzle on fruit is good):drinker:

I have the same problem. I love anything sweet. Cravings for chocolate is awful somedays.

Try Fiber One 90 Calorie snacks. I LOVE the brownie and chocolate chip cookie bars!

You don't have to cut out the sweets. Just eat them in moderation. Plan your day out so you can fit desserts into your goals.

Try something minty. That really helps me.

Well, there are sweets out there that are low calorie for just those cravings. If you're like me then the more you restrict yourself the more you want to rebel against yourself. When it boils down to it the key is mind over matter. If you have a 100 calorie pack of sweets and decide to go back for another then you're probably looking at sabotage. You just need to find a happy medium between the cravings and will power. You are your biggest critic, try not to be too hard on yourself.

Two things....one is I remind myself how it wont make me feel better to eat something sweet. Infact, most of the tme it just makes me feel worse! Second, I bake better sweets. I recently found a recipe online for Quinoa Blondies. They are really great and with a couple of modifications (apple sauce instead of butter and half of the chocolate chips called for) I was able to get the blondies down to 61 calories each. They are tasty, give me sweet but not fat and chase away the feeling that I need something!

If you really want or need straight chocolate, just go for the good stuff (over 72%) and savor it. Make it last, be in the moment and own it! Good luck!

I find eating a piece of fruit will quell a sweet craving pretty well. I often do something like unsweetened applesauce sprinkled with cinnamon or apple slices with almond butter.

I recently went through an online nutrition course and I learned a new way of looking at sweets (my personal kryptonite). You do not have to give up the things you love. You always have a choice whether or not to put it into your mouth. So, for this moment in time, is eating that sweet the best choice for you? Probably not since you are trying to lose some weight. Just look at it from moment to moment, minute to minute, and make the best choice for you. Eating that sweet will put you in your comfort zone ... a place we all want to be. But, in order to make changes, we have to step outside our comfort zone which will, in turn, expand it. Once you practice saying, "no, I will not eat that sweet at this moment," it gets easier and easier. (I know this from experience.) Remember, you are always one bite away from returning to old habits. Good luck on your journey!

I think the key is to start loving the food that loves you back. Something that opened my eyes was a freshly made kale,cucumber,celery,apple + ginger juice. I had it after work, normally very tired after work and not likely to really wake up again. The juice was the only thing I had ever had that managed to make me feel awake for the rest of the day.

I think there are great alternatives for everything you'll miss. You will miss sweet things for a little while, especially fizzy drinks and perhaps chocolates. I make sure I have things in house that will give me that fix but in a healthy way. Cacao + brazil nut spread, different organic cacao cookies. Fruits, dried fruits etc. Nuts too, especially walnuts with himalayan sea salt, really recommend those if you can find them.

Those kind of things are my treats now and I actually prefer them to the old chocolate bars. I did crave fizzy drinks for a while because it felt like nothing would really hit the spot like a fizzy drink. The cravings cooled down after a while tho, probably aided by the changes I made from above.

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Sugar is an addiction. I've replaced it with sugar-free lollies, no sugar dded chocolate and diet drinks when I need a sweet hit. Gum is great (beneficial for the teeth too). Weight watcher's jelly is a great low-cal go-to.

I eat a small piece of dark chocolate when I crave sweets!!!