fruit to curb my demonic chocolate/ice cream consumption.

Apples and peanut butter really kill a chocolate craving for me.

Or you can just portion your servings and still maintain your love of chocolate/ice cream.

Yah doesn't work for me...I just portion out my chocolate (chocolate covered almonds lately) and eat what fits in my calorie goal.

Why would sugar wean you off your love of sugar? Sugar is sugar.

Or super-dark chocolate. Darker chocolate is more satisfying than milk/lighter chocolates - less sugar, more intense flavor.

That said, you'd need to experiment to see how dark you like it. The nearly pure stuff is so bitter I can't eat it plain. I'm usually good between 70-85% cocoa.

One banana, chocolate unsweetened almond milk, peanut butter and ice in the blender. Cravings taken care of

Apples and peanut butter really kill a chocolate craving for me.

this helps me alot as well.

or a banana with peanut butter

I'm also a big chocolate lover...

One thing that has helped me are fudge pops. They are satisfying enough to help with both ice cream/chocolate cravings for me, and they're only 40 calories each. So you can even have 3 of them and be close to 100 calories.

Of course there are days when this simply doesn't cut it, and I enjoy some REAL chocolate as well. I don't think there's anything wrong with that either.

Or super-dark chocolate. Darker chocolate is more satisfying than milk/lighter chocolates - less sugar, more intense flavor.

That said, you'd need to experiment to see how dark you like it. The nearly pure stuff is so bitter I can't eat it plain. I'm usually good between 70-85% cocoa.

They keep saying this, but I can gorge on anything short of baker's chocolate. Milk chocolate just leaves me "meh, why waste the calories?!"

My husband is the keeper of the chocolate. He doles it out judiciously.

I work out a lot and fluctuate quite a bit. I know mainly my weight gains are caused by overreating and my love of Reeses cups, ice cream, brownies, etc. I also like fruit and hoping the natural sugars will help me ween off to a much healthier alternative.

IMO and this is just my opinion, there is no substituting chocolate with fruit. I can't imagine having an apple over an reeses cup and being satisfied. I like apples but it's just a different type of satisfaction than with chocolate.

Do you binge when eating chocolate?

I refuse to give up dark chocolate. Absolutely refuse. I want my "diet" to be permanent, so I have to make this work without feeling like I'm depriving myself of the things that make me happy.

Not to mention, while not exactly low in calories nor in fat, dark chocolate has an overwhelming of health benefits. Sometimes you just have to accept your cravings and look at the glass of chocolate milk half full. Just find a way to work it into your calories!

As with all my "weakness foods", I keep them separated into "single servings" so that my calorie count is easy to keep track of. (For example, I home-make two dark chocolate/almond square sizes that are about either 75 or 150 calories each. I found that if I didn't pre-make and then separate my squares into the servings, then I would just wander into the kitchen and just dig into my dark chocolate bag... naughty! When I started separating them into servings/calories, I became much more aware of my intake... and thusly a bit more watchful!)

Oranges have been my thing lately. It takes time to peel them...so they aren't a quick snack. I always joke that I'm going to get diabetes from eating too much fruit. I also love apples or bananas with almond butter. But I still crave chocolate.

I eat a lot of fruit anyway, but my husband bought me these 90 calorie fiber one brownies and they are pretty good!
At the end of the day when I need something sweet, I usually have room for 90 calories and the brownie really hits the spot.
Have a little to avoid a binge when you eat everything but and still want it!

I like the Fiber 1 brownies too... the chocolate ones as well as coffee cake. I will say, though, be careful with them.. haha! I get a lot of fiber in my diet from other sources, so if I have these Fiber brownies too often, it is a little too much fiber for my system... I'm fine having them every few days, though. They're pretty tasty.