How to get rid of sweet tooth

I had to do this with processed wheat, rice, potato and processed corn. I have a 34 yr history of being unable to portion control them. They are my trigger foods. I finally just stopped eating them. I make my own wraps/crepes from chickpea flour, I make summer squash pizza crust. I eat bean and lentil chips. Quinoa instead of rice, Shirataki instead of pasta. Hominy and sweet potato instead of white potato. This has been the most successful decision I have made for my health. When I get blowback from people about my decision I remind them that we don't tell someone with COPD to portion control his cigarettes.

I have lots of fruit in my lunch bag. Every time I start craving processed sugar I eat some fruit. It's worked so far. Still indulging in the occasional ice cream though, but not as often.

I do too! I went and got kroger fruit bars with no sugar added. I also got popcorn called "boom chicka pop" lightly sweetened. 37 calories per cup so not too shabby on the portion and it satisfies my craving. I have also eliminated all the trigger foods in my house. My hubby has some candy stashed, out of sight, out of mind.

Just one cookie or a couple bites of a cake definitely won't satisfy your sweet tooth. Why can't you work in a couple cookies or a piece of cake into your daily intake? I have a huge sweet tooth, but I always work some kind of sweets in my day. Some of my usual "healthy" sweets are greek yogurt, fiber one 90 cal cinnamon bar, cinnamon hazelnut protein cereal, fruit, dark chocolate. But I usually work in some kind of real sweets like cookies, cake, and ice cream. If not daily, at least multiple days during the week. I personally think moderation is key, this is a lifestyle change not a diet. I would not be a happy person if I deprived myself of sweets. So this way I'm happy and I'm still losing weight, win win.

I acknowledged that there are certain foods I only ate to stimulate the pleasure centers in my brain, and that they are foods with zero nutritional value. And then I forced myself to admit that I don't have a high enough calorie allotment to meet my daily nutritional needs when I eat those foods. Most important, I started categorizing foods as either making me less hungry after eating them or making me more hungry. And I got rid of the ones that make me more hungry. Because it ain't natural, ya'll! Food shouldn't make you hungry!

hard candies do it for me, they last a long time so I feel like i'm getting a lot of sweets and they are low calorie. Sugar free hard candies are even lower calorie (3 at 35 calories and that would last me an entire day for sure) -- my favorites are butterscotch, life savers, and cinnamon discs.. but others are mints, tic tacs, or jolly ranchers.

another trick is jello with a small amount of cool whip, pretty tasty. Yogurt is a good one, as well as popsicles. I like weight watchers strawberry yogurt pops too!

I don't keep cake or cookies in the house, it makes it harder to get the stuff you crave -- if you have to drive to a store to get it you have more time to talk yourself out of eating it rather than if it was sitting in your kitchen a few feet away all day.

I know it's frowned upon, but sometimes a diet dr. pepper really keeps me from reaching for a cookie or ice cream. It doesn't make me crave more at all like some people claim it does. I don't drink it that often because the carbonation is almost too much for me since I stopped drinking it daily. lol

I am a fat-craver, not a sugar-craver. But I cannot even imagine eating enough of ANYTHING to feel overfull. I only know what it feels like to be COMFORTABLY full. If you don't know to quit eating when you reach that point then, yes definitely you need to quit eating sweets completely!

When mine got really bad one time I went cold turkey but only for 7 days (that was the plan) and I did a great job of sticking to that and then by the end of the 7 days I felt like I could control how much I ate and I could have even my favorite treat in the house and not just eat it because it was there and must be eaten. I may need to do this again sometime soon. lol

I'm with you there, I'm still trying to deal with my terrible sweet tooth. But it does get easier!
I used to drink about 5 cups of tea a day, each with two teaspoons of sugar in it, I always hated the taste of artificial sweeteners but I shopped around and eventually found one that actually tastes nice in my tea (Canderel sweetener tablets) I made the switch and that's one sweet problem solved. I'm no longer drinking 10 teaspoons of sugar in a day.
I think the key is to find your biggest sugar problem areas and address them one at a time, try to replace each thing with something that can satisfy the sweet tooth to some extent.
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Drinking things that taste sweet with no sugar is the best thing I can recommend. Every time I had a sweet craving I drank a can of Pepsi Max, it has no sugar in it and yet it tastes really sweet (how do they do that?) it helps so much.

I eat peanut butter on an apple and log it in my diary.

I can identify with you, I haven't met a cookie I didn't enjoy:) hence the profile pic! I am like some of the others i try to work out a way to have something if i really want it. on a good note i have reduced my cookie intake and use fiber one brownies, and 90 calorie snacks to try and satisfy my sweet tooth.

I used to drink massive amounts of sugar-sweetened coffee. I switched to tea, and I choose fruit or mint varieties which I am able to drink without any sugar or milk. It makes a big difference in training my taste buds to like naturally sweet rather than demanding additional sugar.

Find a genie and use it as one of your 3 wishes

Seriously, it doesn't go away. Just have some sweet things... make sweet oatmeal, have some Greek yogurt with fruit or peanut butter etc... I still have sweets pretty much every day.

Trying to power your way through craving is a tough way to go; very few people are successful at cold-turkey-style abstinence. But it can be done. Better though, might be to replace the way you satisfy the craving. That seems to work for a lot of people. So... get rid of all the food that triggers the craving so you don't fall back on it. Replace it with something that has satisfies your sweet craving. Couple that with something that leaves you feeling satiated. Have a fixed portion of whatever that combo is when you have a sweet tooth. Gradually you will replace the old reward with the new one.

For me, it was fruit and almonds. I could have five cherries and ten almonds and that would do it. Or just an apple. Or some water sweetened with flavoring. After a couple of months, I am much more likely to let it pass or reach for a piece of fruit.

Here's the bad news: there is a lot of evidence that cravings never really disappear. We just learn to replace one way of rewarding it with another or overlay it with a different habit. But it will still bite you in the butt if you give it the original reward. Just ask almost anyone who has given up cigarettes or alcohol.

It helps me. I just don't keep the stuff around.... when I go see my parents its always a terrible weekend because they have all kinds of yummy goodies around. I find its easy to make good choices when its the only choice you have