Ah! Cravings are the worse.

Whenever I have a craving I always choose to drink a nice big bottle of water first. Sometimes I drink just plain water, or I will add dehydrated lemon or lime crystals, or zero calorie iced tea powder. If after drinking the water I am still hungry or still have the craving I will opt for a package of Thinsations, or Peppridge Farm cracker chips, or 2 rice cakes with half an avocado, cherry tomatoes, s+p, and some mustard!

I hope this help's you out!

For me, my problem are food "triggers". I'm too cheap most of the time, so I don't usually by candy or fast food. If it's out of sight, it's out of mind (I also stopped watching TV for a while because of all the food commercials. subliminal advertising is cray) BUT, almost everyday I go to work and there are some type of cravings-inducing trigger foods. Food just appears at my desk. I wasn't even thinking about eating a chik-fil-a chicken biscuit until my boss (who was being kind) randomly gave me one. It's like once I saw the biscuit, my brain went "ooooohhh, I must eat eat eattt!"

chocolate. cupcakes, cakes, sandwiches. drawers full of candy. muffins. This is literally from Mon-Thursday of this week alone (this week was kind of an anomaly). I have a huge problem with saying no and throwing food away. Even if I ate this stuff in moderate amounts, within this time frame, it would still be too much! So here's my solution:

I take the stuff I like. Wrap it in some foil. Write a date of when I want to eat it (sometime in the future. like maybe 3 weeks from that day). And freeze it. If by the time the date comes the food is still tasty once de-thawed, then good. But, if it tastes awful de-thawed, then I didn't really miss much anyway, right?

Sounds crazy. it is. but it works for me.