What's the #1 food you crave? (and how do you deal with it?)

Ice cream! I like skinny cow or no sugar added blue bell. I watch my portions and never deprive myself, or else I will binge.

My #1 food craving is a constant battle between chocolate and ice cream. I let myself have a little dark chocolate whenever I crave it, and I have frozen blueberries (sometimes with frozen yogurt) when I crave ice cream, they are delicious. :happy:

I think we will all agree that the secret to stop craving certain types of food is allowing ourselves to eat moderate amounts of them once in a while... but dang, isn't it hard to have "just a little"? :bigsmile:

Fresh bread and/or good, not-too-salty corn chips. I crave chocolate too, but usually only at certain times of the month.

I'm very much accustomed to not eating bread-- I used to make it all the time but make it much more seldomly since I decided to lose weight, and this summer while I've been maintaining, I've been too busy to make bread. My fiance buys locally made sourdough bread, but the bakery we have here often overbakes the type of bread he usually buys, so I don't enjoy it past the first day. So I don't usually have bread to eat if I'm craving it! Chips are more troublesome. . . if I crave them and succumb and buy them on my way home from work, I am capable of eating half a large bag, though normally I have good self-control and only eat a reasonable quantity. There was a stretch in summer when we were having lots of parties and get-togethers and people kept bringing chips-- I think I gained almost a pound in that period just because of the chips! (I was maintaining without logging at the time).

Basically I don't keep the things I crave most around. However, if I really, really want it, I will eat some because deprivation = overeating that food later.

Sometimes I crave meat-- but it's different because I can tell that craving is because of a need for protein or iron, and I indulge it.

Pizza.

I honestly really like the lean cuisine ones- so those help (because I'd honestly eat pizza every day if I could)
But I also just make room for regular pizza. Then I make a thin crust and do a veggie and chicken heavy, cheese light pizza at home. Also pita pizzas are great.

... did I mention just how much pizza I eat? It's the perfect food.

Food generally...

Chocolate mostly but I'd probably bash someone in the nuts for a bowl of creamy mashed potato...

My biggest cravings have been for Dunkin Donuts and McDonalds. The craving for Dunkin Donuts is interesting because I never really ate at Dunkin Donuts except for a few times in my life. My craving for McDonalds is not as mysterious, I ate there often, they have delicious food.

I don't have anything against eating at these places if you can fit it in in your calorie budget, but my cravings hit me at night when I'm not going to be going out anywhere.

I probably don't deal with my cravings in the right way. I look up pictures of these foods and admire them in google image searches, and sometimes I'll even go so far as to imagine eating them as vividly as I can.

Chocolate!

I have been doing well until this past weekend. I brought a huge box of chocolate from Godiva to treat myself and I finished them all in 2 days.... was planning for it for the whole week :sad: :sad: :sad: ( I blame it with the change of weather and TOM).

I usually keep some dark chocolate with sea salt in my draw and just eat one or two squares with a cup of hot tea in the afternoon. It has been great, keep my treat around 100 calories and satisfy my craving....

Sushi... it's so good.

I guess I deal with it by only getting it maybe once a month. We go to an all you can eat place... I usually skip breakfast and lunch and enjoy myself

Edited to add that since I've started eating sushi it has eliminated any cravings for Chinese Takeout. I feel like craving sushi is much better for me (maybe?) than craving greasy Chinese food!