What do you do when sugar is calling for you!!

Fruit won't likely cause you to lose weight - if you look at Weight Watchers model, they're 0 points. Now, if you're eating 4 packs of strawberries, two watermelons and 15 apples a day, that may effect your weight loss. Try to eat something with healthy carbs too while you're eating fruit, such as apples!

Going to sound weird
What I do is keep a bag of Nestle Milk Chocolate Chips, and if I am having a craving for something sweet, I know that I can have 14g of those chocolate chips for 70 calories (and yes I weigh out 14grams)
It works really well, and I never feel guilty about eating 14 grams. Some times I add them to a greek yogurt, or add them to my cereal to make it more sweet.

If I crave something sugary, I will just have it. I don't have much of a sweet tooth so don't each a lot of sugary foods anyways

it's the carbs that gets stored as fat that causes most people to gain weight. if you can watch your carb intake, that'll help. i know that there is a lot of controversy about the atkins diets, but it does have some truth to it - not only does fat get stored as fat, but glucose that is not immediately worked off is also transformed into fat.

limit your carbohydrates. i know it's hard but you can order atkins products - their granola bars have sugar alcohols that do not spike insulin and they taste sweet they're delicious with only about 2-3g net carbs.

you can also try eating nuts.
i know it's not as good as sweet sugars but nuts are still satisfying.
dark chocolate is also a really good replacement - antioxidants are healthy and not as insulin-prone as others.

hope that helped.

it's the carbs that gets stored as fat that causes most people to gain weight. if you can watch your carb intake, that'll help. i know that there is a lot of controversy about the atkins diets, but it does have some truth to it - not only does fat get stored as fat, but glucose that is not immediately worked off is also transformed into fat.

limit your carbohydrates. i know it's hard but you can order atkins products - their granola bars have sugar alcohols that do not spike insulin and they taste sweet they're delicious with only about 2-3g net carbs.

you can also try eating nuts.
i know it's not as good as sweet sugars but nuts are still satisfying.
dark chocolate is also a really good replacement - antioxidants are healthy and not as insulin-prone as others.

hope that helped.

Actually anything in excess is stored as fat. Fat is the bodies way of storing unused energy. Calories are units of energy. If they aren't used they're stored in the form of fat. Whether those calories come from a protein, carb, or fat is irrelevant, in terms of weight loss.

Also, I've tried those Atkins bars. I'd rather eat sawdust.

I will eat some candy or something sweet if I crave it. Everything in moderation.

I am trying to not eat as much sugar as before and have been replacing every craving with fruits...but will the fruits cause me to gain weight as well???

The fruit will not necessarily cause you to gain weight, but when you consume calories from ANY source in excess of what you burn in a day - then yes, you will gain weight. So, it is possible to gain weight from fruit...but no more than it is possible to gain weight from any other source of calories. Of course, fruits are far more nutritionally beneficial than "junk" foods containing sugar (candy, etc.), so you'd want to try to eat fruit more often than the "junk" (no need to completely cut it out though). Consume the fruits you enjoy, be sure to log them accurately, stay within your calorie goal, and you'll be fine.

If you have cravings, drink peppermint tea. With no sugar of course! Really helps! Also yes fruit turns to sugar in ur body! Not near as bad as refined sugar but still raises ur insulin which cause ur body to store! Watch the fruit!