How do you abstain from eating the chocolate in the fridge?

I just refuse the pies and ice cream and brownies and as for chocolate in the fridge, I never put any in there.

The OP is visiting another home.


This is the hardest thing for me as I'm a sugar addict.

You can try to gross yourself out, research how the chocolate is made and find something revolting about it. Remember that it's a glob of fat and a lot of advertising. Or resist it as a matter of pride.

I like to eat those mini chocolate bars at work for a snack. I have no willpower at home though so I have to keep all the sweets in the boot of my car. I'd quite easily raid the cupboards and eat a load of chocolate but going out to the car to find them seems like too much effort. Eating bad things tends to happen when I'm really horribly tired and then only when it's readily available. Keep it out of reach!

If you have kids in the house, it's hard to be extremetly healthy all the time or even a husband/wife who buys things but moderation is the key and knowing you have to exercise it off if it put you outside of your calorie limit.

I buy the kids things I don't like and they do but when I am around a delicious brownie, my daughter made a scrumptious apple tart yesterday for her siblings...I have a little. After the first 2 bites, the rest is just sensory, not appetite. In the past, I rarely tasted a lot of sweets, I ate them too fast. Now I try to slow down and really taste it. If it's really special, a once a year, hard to make treat, hell with it, life is short, I'm not going to pot over this cookie or slice of cake.

Even Jillian Michael's said she eats 2 dark chocolate squares a day and Poppers instead of chips (which she partly owns I must say)

I try not to have anything I can't eat in the house, sweets others bring in work or over Mom's, I decline or taste if I really like it. The taste doesn't get you in trouble, it's the inability to just do that...if you can't, I just respectively decline and state my weak self=control at this time. I told my mother once, I just worked out and burned approximately 300 calories....I don't want to put back an hour of work with 3 bites of pecan pie. She understood.

Well if you really want it work out the calories and exercise so you burn off double the amount. Then you won't feel guilty.

I have a bit of chocolate every day with my yogurt and granola for breakfast. I used to have terrible sugar cravings all day long and once I started incorporating it into my diet rather than looking at it as the enemy I've been much happier and I crave it less

I read somewhere that having some peanut butter is a good way to combat chocolate cravings. I keep some in my house to have on a plain rice cake when I really want to munch in the evenings.

If I'm struggling to control my sweet tooth (because I'm still learning to control my urge to eat everything in sight and try to eat just one piece/bite), and believe me, if it's not in the house and I'm having one of those uncontrollable days, I will go to the store and buy things I shouldn't (even if it means getting dressed or getting a shower first), I've been jumping on pinterest and going to the health & fitness boards. Sure there's some recipes on there but they are usually healthy. and seeing the workout regimens redirects my mind frame and I can calm my brain down (my brain goes into OCD mode when I have a craving and forbid to satisfy it. It's like it goes into a panic and I have to talk myself down from wanting to stuff my face). Like I said, if I could stop at one square of chocolate, one cookie, etc. I would give in to the bad cravings, but I'm still trying to teach myself self-control and giving in usually ends badly. Don't get me wrong, I don't abstain from it entirely, (although I do better if I do), I just don't let myself have something every day. I look forward to getting there someday where I can have a little bit and be satisfied.

Yea, I honestly just don't have the stuff sitting around. But I will tell ya, if I'm at my parents house, and they offer me some pie or cookies, I don't turn it down... I just don't eat a ton/bunch of it. Moderation for me! But yea... no way can I have that stuff just sitting around my house... that is a recipe for disaster for sure... especially when Aunt Flo visits! lol

Here is my fix----Fiber One 80 calorie CHOCOLATE cereal !!!!!!!!!!!!! I 3/4 cup if this stuff is 80 calories. So I buy a box, premeasure the bags and then grab one when I HAVE to just HAVE to have my chocolate. I even take it with me and everyone I know understands WHY I have my snack baggie and everyone is very supportive in my needs. So d NOT be shy--take that baggie with you!! It also has 35% of your fiber TOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm having a good day, when all of a sudden we go to visit some relative who offers me pies and ice cream and brownies. Or I happen across some chocolate in the fridge. I know I'll regret it a half hour later but I can't stop myself. My sweet tooth is out of hand...

How do you abstain/ find the motivation to stay on track?

Read the OP, guys... It's not about not keeping it in the house, it's about not eating offered pie when there's a chance you could upset the pie offerer.

If you know you're going to visit the relative, plan ahead with your food. If not, say yes and just ask for a tiny piece. That way they can feed you and you can still take control. Don't feel obligated to eat the whole thing.

I have no junk food in my house whatsoever. The snacks I tend to have are peanuts and Greek yoghurts. No chocolate, crisps or biscuits anywhere.

I used to think I had a major sweet tooth but after getting rid of things like that, I find that I don't actually crave them if they're not around. And if I decide once in a while that I deserve a chocolate bar and I genuinely really, really want it then I will fit it into my calorie allowance and go and buy a small single bar from the shop and eat it that day instead of keeping it in the house.

I keep 100 cal packs of chocolate dusted almonds in my cabinet...and in my purse...and in my lunchbox. Kills the chocolate craving.

I eat it as long as it fits my calories/macros

I don't abstain from eating anything

I'm having a good day, when all of a sudden we go to visit some relative who offers me pies and ice cream and brownies. Or I happen across some chocolate in the fridge. I know I'll regret it a half hour later but I can't stop myself. My sweet tooth is out of hand...

How do you abstain/ find the motivation to stay on track?

I either A) remove it and don't have it in the house or I plan it into my day and work around it.