I can't stop eating sweets ;(

Increase your magnesium, it will offset your cravings. It's too low, which is why you are craving such junk.

This is something I struggle with constantly. Its my biggest pitfall.

Can you allow yourself to have a small treat once a week? Or is that a trigger for you? I cut back my sweets gradually and now I don't crave them as often. I still do on occasion, but its not as bad as it used to be. (I would have punched someone for a chocolate chip cookie at one point. It was that bad! lol) I replaced ice cream with frozen yogurt when I absolutely must have sweets.

I bought myself a single serving blender at walmart ($15) and some Hershey's sugar free cocoa powder. I make smoothies using the powder and bananas and I find it helps a lot with chocolate cravings! You can also make an awesome chocolate dip/syrup if you mix a small amount of Agave (I like the maple flavor) with the cocoa powder. Its wonderful on strawberries!

As the previous posters mentioned, start small. Have faith in yourself. You didn't gain all the weight in one day, and you won't lose it in one day either. It takes time and patience.. I have faith in you!

Put that cookie down! NOW!

Ok, magnesium might be a factor, but that comment wasn't based on blood tests and is speculation at best. Take magnesium if you want (or do a salt bath, it absorbs through your skin), it can't hurt, but seriously, MAKE YOURSELF STOP! Temptation is real, cravings are real, but so is willpower. This isn't easy guys, but it is possible. Keep the crap out of the house, or limit yourself to 1 treat (if you can do that, otherwise cold turkey). Don't let that treat get the better of you! Make a real decision, set real goals, and then DO IT. I'm not saying you'll never slip up, but when you do, stop yourself! You CAN stop eating sweets. There's no magic fairy dust to make you automatically not like them, you have to make it happen yourself. The upside is going on a low-sugar diet is hard at first, but gets easier as your body becomes accustomed to fewer and less drastic blood-sugar spikes, and stops grumbling at you for it.

and also, i couldn't help myself, but i had to post this:

THE HEALTHIEST BATCH OF COOKIES ON EARTH

Ingredients

2 tablespoon coconut flour
2 tablespoon mashed banana or applesauce
pinch of salt
stevia or other sweetener, to taste
1/8 teaspoon baking powder
3 tablespoon almond milk, or milk of choice
Chocolate chips
Directions


Preheat oven to 350F.
In a small bowl, mix coconut flour, baking powder, and salt.
Add in masked banana or applesauce and stir.
Add in almond milk, one tablespoon at a time until fully incorporated.
Stir in chocolate chips.
Drop dough by tablespoon or teaspoon, depending on how big you want them, on a parchment lined baking sheet.
Flatten the dough into cookie shapes.
Bake in the oven at 350F for 10 minutes.
Let cool.

Calories: 6 per bite-sized cookie

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Sure you can. Put them down, and stop eating them.


Yaaaaayyyyy, willpower.


Though, I can't fathom why on Earth you'd WANT to stop eating them.

Start logging for starters. Log even (maybe especially) if you go over. Your goal is low, which could be causing you to want to eat more. But it's hard to tell because your diary is blank.

If you can resist long enough, you'll break your addiction and you will not want them. When you want something sweet, eat fruit. Sugar is like a drug. Beat the addiction. You can do it.

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It's the simple sugar, without protein or fiber. Leaves you hungry in about an hour, I remember.

How about eating fruit with a protein instead ? You can artificially sweeten oatmeal or sweet potato so it's more like a desert. Add truvia, cocoa powder, pumpkin spice, whatever you like. You can even use Yonanas to blend frozen fruit to an ice cream consistency.

Work 'em in. If they fit in your macros why feel deprived? Control your portion sizes instead -- grab some smaller plates, bowls, ramekins, etc. Cut those donuts in halves or quarters. Log everything. As long as you know what you're eating and WHY, it's ok.

Make your meals nutritious and protein and veggie full, let your snacks be sweet but small.

I suffer from this too, gained 4 pound recently thanks to this... any tips on how to increase magnesium intake?

Spinach! Hardly any calories and LOTS of magnesium and potassium (a dieter's best mineral friends). You can sneak spinach in almost anywhere--into your morning eggs along with sauteed onions and pepper, into your protein shakes.

Nuts are not low-cal but they are a great source of minerals too. Often, dieters become depleted of minerals because of the lower volume of food. That's why eating well is SO important on a calorie-restricted diet. Even though you can lose weight on 1,200 calories worth of cupcakes per day, at the end, you body will be so hungry for nutrients that you will become a food magnet, hoovering up everything that even LOOKS like food. I know that many here on MFP counsel that you can have your treats and still lose weight--and that is true, if all you care about is a number on the scale. The downside that is important to think about is what good things are you crowding out of your calorie-restricted diet in order to accommodate the sweet-eating? We only have so many calories to spend and when you waste them on foods that are less than nourishing, your body keeps track. When you cheat it of nutrients, it will get its revenge, unfortunately.

I have eliminated the empty calories contained in sweets from my diet (and it is going on three years now). I have not binged on sweets once in those three years. (I also have eliminated gluten--I have a gluten-intolerance). It is sometimes helpful to go on a fast from fructose for a couple of weeks. It will lower your level of fructokinase (which becomes elevated when there is much of a sugar habit going on). After a couple of weeks (and you will crave fruit during that time, provided you are not eating sugar--sugar, i.e. sucrose is 50% fructose) you will be totally content with eating fruit alone for satisfying your sweet tooth.

It seems that there is an inverse relationship with eating sweets and nourishing food. (Ever notice how a lot of nourishing food rots in the refrigerator while there are a lot of sweets around at the holidays?) The more sweets you eat, the more that nourishing food will turn you off. The more nourishing food you eat, the more that sweets will turn you off. I occasionally have a piece of cake pushed on me at a party or something, and I take one bite and leave the rest because it really tastes unpleasantly sweet to me--I am much more satisfied with a nice piece of fruit instead. (What I did in the past, BEFORE I broke my sugar-addiction, was tell everyone I was dieting and eat only a little bit of fruit off the fruit platter that many considerate hostesses provide these days. And then I would go home and dig a dessert out of the freezer. Ever eat frozen cookies? LOL--pretty pathetic.) Obesity researchers are now pointing to sugar consumption as a large part of the "food addiction" picture. Here is the website of a scientific conference on "food addiction" from a few years ago: http://www.foodaddictionsummit.org/index.htm