sugar cravings

Fruits and other types of carbs are great.
Go for a walk or work on a sun tan. Those things help me at night.

Sugar cravings are not a sign of a need for magnesium. I'd say the OP's craving is hormonal and she just has to wait for it to pass. yes eat fresh fruit.

If you are addicted to sugar. Stop eating it completely. Refined sugars that is. And don't replace with artificial sweeteners. you need to get used to eating food that is less sweet and these days most food is too sweet for health and causes you to want more insatiably.

Quitting is not hard once you accept the need for it. I have not had sugar cravings since i began my diet in January. I quit cold turkey. Just fruit for three or four months. Then i reintroduced some dried fruit figs and dates but only one per day because too many of these will trigger a binge or craving for more also. Just recently, 8 months down the track i've decided i can make sugar free desserts. Its an experiment. they are sometimes high in fat so i make the position sizes really small. bite sized . But i often make strewed fruit which is lovely with greek yoghurt.

I don't even have sugar on my porridge oats. I gave up sugar in coffee years ago. I don't miss sugar at all. But i know i still like those sugary foods so i don't eat them. I have only a few special limited situations when i can eat dessert types sweets of any kind. But they are not pre-planned. And i can only have one serve. IF i felt unsafe with this i wouldn't do it. I do not eat sweets at home ever. The idea is to forget about sugar. Learn how to enjoy living iwhtout it.

Learn how to love savoury foods. Become a better cook of savoury and healthy foods.

Today i've had shakshouka for breakast, followed by yoghurt with banana and pecans.
Lunch was italian lentil soup and an orange
dinner tonight was deep fried felafel balls followed by caponata on 50g of spaghetti. Caponata is an eggplant stew.
I've had plenty of protein, a good dose of fibre, a few too many calories in total, nearly all my vegetables and fruit requirements. 5 + 2 per day. The only thing i'm not sure about is if i'ive had enough calcium. Some of these things are leftovers and the breakfast was the only thing i cooked from scratch today. Most of the other stuff was reheated.

My food is so much more yummy that it was win the past. It has taken me a fair bit of this year to improve my diet this well but i did start out the year by quitting sugar. You can all do it too and probably should if you can't control your sugar intake.

I've lost most of the weight i wanted to lose as well.

Also while a bit of sunshine is good for you, working on a tan is not advised. It is ageing.

Go to boots or any sort of health food store and buy some sugar free sweets. Some of them are only 9 calories and the butter scotch sugar free sweets kind of taste like chocolate. Just have some of those until your sick of that sugary taste and you won't want chocolate anymore.

sometimes, especially around that wonderful time of the month, i get sugar cravings and an unbearably huge appetite that seems to not be satiated no matter how much water i drink or healthy foods/more protein i eat. is there really no way around it? i mean i don't go crazy but it's super annoying when my mind is telling me i'm constantly hungry.. though the constant hunger is usually only a couple of days before my period before it returns to its usual self. still SO annoying. anyway! how long to avoid sugar, for the cravings to dissipate? and how much sugar should you allow, is natural ok (fruits/unprocessed etc)?

Sounds like your restricting your diet too much. How about eating some sweet things within your calorie allowance? If you stop trying to avoid foods or treat them as 'good or bad' you're less likely to crave them or see them as naughty in some way.

sometimes i'm just too exhausted to work out around my period! or having back pain, both which are annoying. and you're right i should probably add in some more calories especially around that time.

I feel you!! Being tired is usually why I don't end up going... but it seriously does help with all those aches and pains... I don't usually have back pains, but the cramps are crazy, and I can tell that there's a huge difference in how hard they come on when I've worked out vs. not. I usually go in expecting to not workout as long as I usually do, and I take it easier too, but I find I end up working out the same amount of time anyway (though the intensity stays less... I dunno if this is for everyone, but I definitely can't work out at the same level when I have it)

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Happened to me yesterday, let's say I went over by quite a big margin. I laugh at the fruit suggestion, if only it actually worked...