Beating the sweet craving

webebeer
webebeer Posts: 81
edited September 18 in Food and Nutrition
just wondering what every one eats to curb the sweet cravings. I use to spoon down a chocolate milk shake before bed...lol...now I find that frosted flakes or honey dew melon works o.k...low calories and sweet.....
wendy

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  • webebeer
    webebeer Posts: 81
    just wondering what every one eats to curb the sweet cravings. I use to spoon down a chocolate milk shake before bed...lol...now I find that frosted flakes or honey dew melon works o.k...low calories and sweet.....
    wendy
  • finkkm
    finkkm Posts: 27 Member
    I chew gum when I get a craving for something sweet, or I'll buy a Dove small dark chocolate candy bar... I justify eating the chocolate because it has antioxidants... haha still not good for me, but its a smaller portion, and better than milk chocolate. I tried cutting sugar out of my diet completely but then I would just binge in mass amounts about once a week.... If only chocolate were a health food :ohwell:
  • deanea
    deanea Posts: 1,437
    I have some 100 cal sweet packs around...crispy delights, thins cho, etc...and I usually have a pkg everyday, I make sure I save my 100 cals, a slightly smaller lunch of 50 cals and dinner less 50 cals so I can have a sugary treat everyday. I have also been lucky to not want the whole box in one sitting!
    If I want real goodies, I plan for them....exersice relly hard that day and make my meals smaller and I just let go....ohhhh cheese cake!
  • Loretta_Jo
    Loretta_Jo Posts: 609 Member
    I like Hershey’s Sticks Special Dark Chocolate. They are only 60 calories a stick. As much as I love chocolate for some reason I don’t have a problem stopping with one stick. If I get to the point where I eat more then one it will have to go the way the peanut butter did and I will quit bringing them in the house. But so far just one stick takes care of my sweet cravings. Plus the dark chocolate is good for you. :smile:
    :flowerforyou:
  • keri_cook
    keri_cook Posts: 14
    The best way i find to curve sweet cravings is a lollipop.....it takes a while to lick all of the candy and it is just a few calories (about 60 calories and 0 fat and around 15g carbs depending on the size of the lollipop)....by the time your done with it..the cravings are gone!!!! good luck...
  • chrisil25
    chrisil25 Posts: 6
    :bigsmile: candy canes have been doing it for me. The small one's of course
  • fatauntie
    fatauntie Posts: 7
    I have to agree, gum chewing works. but I do remember a long time ago that chewing gum activated the digestive enzymes in your stomach making you hungry. Is that even possible, because I am starving! I keep remembering the light at the end of the tunnel.
  • kistinbee
    kistinbee Posts: 3,688 Member
    I have a HUGE sweet tooth!!! I love anything sweet! What I have found that helps: I have 2 apple cinnamon rice cakes (broken up so it looks like more)=100 calories. I have Jello sugar free pudding=90 calories. I have Chewy Low Fat Granola Bars=90 calories. I have weight watchers Ice Cream bars (you can pick and choose)=150 calories. And, on days when I really want REAL chocolate, I have Dove's Rich Dark Chocolate! There are many other options. These are just some of the ones that I have found work for me. Hopefully some of them work for you as well!! :bigsmile:
    *kistinbee*
  • jennijway
    jennijway Posts: 2
    I like to make Jello Instant pudding. I especially love the banana cream, chocolate, or pistachio. It's only 70 calories per 1/2 cup. I also like to add fresh banana, and if I want to splurge, it's excellent topped with whipped cream or crushed gram crackers.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,455 Member
    jennijway,

    See this post.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/2443-latenight-eatingis-my-problem-help?page=1#posts-15617

    I noticed that my "Sugar-free-fat-free-Jello Pudding" had 310mg sodium. Threw them out. While I think it is tasty when you are wanting something sweet, it needs to be a once-in-a-while treat just like any sugary treat. I would eat them two at a time WITH Fat-free-sugar-free Cool Whip. Arrggh. :noway:

    ~Cheryl
  • debuckl
    debuckl Posts: 360 Member
    I make sugar free Jello and separate it into serving sizes (one box makes about four). I don't remember how many cals each serving has, but it helps the sweet tooth. Its always ready and waiting for me in the fridge too, so it is easy. Another thing I heard to do is every time you have a craving just stick the tip of a finger in the sugar bowl and lick it off. Supposedly there is enough sugar there to calm the craving. It doesn't necessarily taste good either so you don't go back for more. I haven't tried it.
  • webebeer
    webebeer Posts: 81
    Thanks all really love it when everyone post back.....I will try some of these...pudding sounds good and dasrk choclate....i think I have a bag of choclate chips in the back of the cupboard....lol
    wendy
  • oldandbroke
    oldandbroke Posts: 37
    Lucky for me I don't crave sweets. Yall might want to look into this supplement that I use that is supposed to help with cravings and lots of other things. I started using it to help me sleep and it really works well for me.

    http://www.5htp.com/
  • Nich0le
    Nich0le Posts: 2,906 Member
    No sugar free stuff here, hate artifical sweetners of all kinds, natural is better...in my opinion.

    I used to go nuts, get grumpy and mean and just be a .... you get the idea, so I actually did a "detox" for 10 days that consisted of no sugar except fruit and yogurt, egg whites, no cheese, no meat but as much beans as one household can handle and lots of veggies. I found after that 10 days I felt great and I haven't had sugar cravings for over three months and if I do start to get them I have just done a mini version of the plan and it helps.

    Best sweet craving satisifier for me now is to have 6 oz of yogurt with a cup of fruit and a pinch of toasted almonds on top.
  • Alafia22
    Alafia22 Posts: 112
    I eat two or three dried apricots and that seems to do the trick for me. But if i really need something sweet i get one or two 10 cent candies from my local grocery store. Something like Hershey's Minatures or Laffy Taffys. I NEVER bring home enough to store and pig out on later but just enough to enjoy on the drive or walk back home....
  • Furpaws
    Furpaws Posts: 36
    I eat an apple, and I don't bring the treats home anymore from the store - in any shape or form. All that does for me is open the flood gates to binge city. :happy:
  • rtamayo
    rtamayo Posts: 85 Member
    I crave sweets too. If you go cold turkey, after about 2 weeks the cravings will go away.
    I know it is hell at first, but this is what I did and i do not have the cravings anymore. i still have a treat sometimes, but i am very carefull because if i eat to many of them, my cravings come back and i have to start again.
    it works, and it is totally worth the week or so of withdrawl.
  • rockabilly_silly
    rockabilly_silly Posts: 8
    I'm not allowed to ever chew gum, because I have had a history of problems with TMJ in my past. My TMJ specialist said no gum for me. :(

    To beat my sweet tooth cravings, I do a few different things. Just depends on what I'm in the mood for.

    1.) Sugar-free hot cocoa.
    2.) Flavored sugar-free tea or coffee drinks. If I want it sweet I just add Splenda.
    3.) I flavor fat-free ricotta or fat-free plain yogurt with Splenda and some other flavoring. Depends on what I'm in the mood for. For instance, if I want dessert, in the ricotta I will add lemon extract and splenda. Or I will add sugar-free cocoa and Splenda. In the yogurt I will add sugar-free jelly, or just some fresh fruit, and Splenda.
    4.) Sugar-free jello.
    5.) Sugar-free popsicles.

    Enjoy! :)
  • rockabilly_silly
    rockabilly_silly Posts: 8
    OH! PS: Over the holidays, my mother-in-law taught me a trick. (She does Weight Watchers). I really wanted some apple pie, and so did she. We saw some baking when we all went to a restaurant in the city. When we all got back home where my husband and I live, Ma went into our kitchen and sliced up some apples super fine. They were like chips! Then she sprinkled them with apple pie spice (cinnamon and cloves), and a light drizzle of honey. It was SO FREAKIN GOOD!

    It really did do the trick, and curb our craving for apple pie. :) It wasn't hot, but the flavor was sublime.
  • Cowboy
    Cowboy Posts: 369 Member
    I don't know if this will help you, but it really helps me. I make a rootbeer float with diet A&W root beer and a scoop of no sugar added vanilla ice cream. It fills me up, and takes care of that "sweet attack". As a diabetic I'm always looking for ways to have a treat without throwing my blood sugars into overdrive. A scoop of the ice cream is only about 20 g. of carb, and 80 or so calories, and the rootbeer is "free". Hope that helps.
    Cowboy
  • flachix
    flachix Posts: 256 Member
    I eat fruit. usually an apple. I love the apple idea of slicing them thin and baking them. very cool. I have been baking the whole apple, cored with a tsp of sf honey and brown sugar with a smidge of butter. your idea is much easier and better, I even have just the right slicer:tongue: I also bake meringue cookies, its just egg whites beaten to stiff peaks with a tsp of peppermint or other extract and enough splenda to sweeten it. bake them slowly for about an hour and munch away. its all protein.
  • slieber
    slieber Posts: 765 Member
    I eat an apple, and I don't bring the treats home anymore from the store - in any shape or form. All that does for me is open the flood gates to binge city. :happy:

    I have the same problem. One little stick of something, or bar of something, isn't enough - I eat the whole blasted package.

    I have sugar-free cocoa in the house, and do have that, but often have to have 2 to make me satisfy my sweets craving. :ohwell:

    So now I stick to sugar-free jello and am going to try fruits instead, even though they don't often satisfy the sweets craving - or haven't, as yet. *sigh*
  • bricker06
    bricker06 Posts: 316
    i hate chocolate so sweet cravings really dont happen alot but when they do i love a fruit and yougurt smoothie. 4-5 ice cubes, 1/2 cup juice (i use light oj), 1/2 cup fresh or frozen fruit, 1 cup dannon light and fit yogurt. very filling and tasty.
  • Aisha
    Aisha Posts: 10
    frozen yoghurt. just a little bit though. :)
  • Aisha
    Aisha Posts: 10
    frozen yoghurt. just a little bit though. :)
  • amye353
    amye353 Posts: 21 Member
    try slicing up and apple sprinkle with splenda and cinnamon, heat in the microwave for 30-60 sec. it's very good--and hot.
  • kmckesson
    kmckesson Posts: 13
    they make this gum that stops sugar cravings by making sweets taste gross after you chew, i guess it's supposed to help you stop eating sugar by making you not want it like a learned behavior or whatever.

    http://www.sugarest.com/
  • morrius
    morrius Posts: 16
    i found a great fudge bar that is only 100 calories per bar, and not bad for fat either, 25g. taste great and fills the sweet craving and for me the ice cream craving all in one. look for it in walmart, you will see the 100 calorie fudgsicle.
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