How do you stop sweets craving?

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.

Try winegum or gummibears, some of them come fat- and sugar-free. I like to eat those when I want a full handful of candies rather than just a square of chocolate lol.

Try weight watchers chocolate mousse, which you can darken with pure cocoa powder, making it more rich.

I also love making fake chocolate truffles (philadelphia fat free cream cheese and melted chocolate rolled into small truffles coated in cocoa powder).

And strawberries dipped in chocolate.




In the beginning, try to not have anything sweet for a couple of weeks. It will really change your cravings. I used to be such a sweet tooth, not only candies and chocolate, but also most of my meals would be somehow sweet, like pancakes for lunch or croissants for dinner. I did the ultra-clean insanity nutrition plan for a couple of weeks along with the workout, which has only meat, fish and veggies and the occasional wholewheat tortilla. Nothin processed. After that i naturally abstained from diet coke, chocolates, candies, pasta, bread, and so many other things, I didn't even have to force myself anymore. I also prefer to eat much more savoury in general nowadays. Your taste preferences really depend on your habits. You can change it.

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My family used to purchase instant oatmeal but as you stated it does have looooads of sugar. So we switched to steel cut oats, I add milk, a bit of sugar, and some fruit
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Been there. Even oats don't satisfy me in the morning, I need to add chia seeds. They don't distort the taste at all. You mix them with a little water and stir til they form a gel like consistency, then add them to the cooked oats.

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2 tablespoons have 100% more omega 3 than salmon, over 40% of your daily fiber, 6x more calcium than milk, 30+% of your daily magnesium, 16% complete vegetable protein, 6x more iron than spinach, 60+% more potassium than banana, more niacin than corn, rice or soy, twice as many anti oxidants than blueberries.

All of that goodness leaves you feeling very content. I've never felt too full which is great, but I can happily go and work an active job for 6 hours before needing to eat again. I don't tend to get any cravings when I have chia seeds. They are worth looking in to. You can add them to anything. Smoothies, meals etc.

IMO (and I obviously don't have much of a track record here since I've only been working at this problem since February - 31 pounds gone though!), you absolutely don't need to avoid sweets altogether. I routinely indulge in something and because I do, I don't feel like I need to hunt it down and gobble down humongous portions any time I get near it.

Case in point? I'm a chocoholic. I make no bones about that. Give me chocolate or give me death (not literally, but you get the point). Before I started on this, I could and would eat TONS of it. If it were near me, it'd be eaten. I've gotten a handle on it now because being in a lifestyle change hasn't meant I "couldn't" have it, just needed (desperately) to moderate it. I've gotten good enough at restraint that I have a bag of dark-chocolate M&M's in my desk and I don't eat them much. I know how many M&Ms make up a serving (210 calories for a 1/4c, which is roughly 60 M&Ms). When I really feel like I "need" a hit of chocolate, I have a half-serving. End of story. It kills my chocolate need, I feel good because I didn't go crazy, and (most of the time), I end up not needing/wanting a snack in the afternoon after that.

But, as with all things, this is what works for ME. Just a thought.