Savory then sweet ((my bad habit))

A small amount of fruit usually does the trick for me eg lychees, cherries, date.

Pootler74 wrote: »

I'm the same. Some fixes that work:

• A small serving of frozen yoghurt, or low calorie ice cream
• Defrosted frozen berries, mixed with (low fat or fat free) greek yoghurt and sweetener
• One piece of good dark chocolate
• Low calorie hot chocolate
• Mini Milks (30 calorie ice cream lollies)
• Fruit tea with sweetener
• 100 calorie puddings - plenty of those available in the UK. The Alpro ones are more filling.
• Single serve skinny brownie mug cakes. There are recipes online that work out at about 100 calories.
• Sugar free jelly made up with greek yoghurt. Tastes like a pudding. Mine is only 30 or so calories a serving. Google Slimming World Blancmange for recipes.

Great ideas above and I'm the same and use many of these. Going to check out the last one though as sounds great :-)

I enjoy sweet more than savoury and have just accepted that! Oh - another idea is to find a delicious chocolate protein bar and cut into bite sized pieces and put in the fridge or freezer.

I like herbal tea (current favorite: 365 rooibos orange vanilla creme from Whole Foods and a huge box is 5 bucks) or a little vanilla extract in my coffee. It's sweet when you inhale it and when you breathe out through your nose after a sip.

I'm the same way. Tea typically just makes it worse. I've been going overboard lately, but typically a square of dark chocolate or a couple chocolate covered nuts does the trick. I'm going to try to content myself with a 100 calories Yoplait Whip Greek for a while though (they are awesome).

I am the same. Breakfast I'm usually fine but lunch and dinner I always want something sweet. I usually keep mini chocolates and even the sugar free hard candies. At night I usually have some sugar free fudgesicles, yogurt, frozen fruit or hot chocolate/tea. I Like things like chocolate, yogurt and fruit frozen because it takes a bit to eat so it helps pass and satisfy the cravings.

v_v same

thicknfit86 wrote: »

Everytime I eat a meal, my body craves something sweet to finish it off. If I don't eat something sweet, I usually end up feeling hungry & binge eat. However if I choose to give into my cravings, then one sweet thing leads to the next.... How can I break this cycle? Does this happen to anyone else?

I know this may sound crazy or maybe it won't work for you, but I chew a children's flinstone vitamin. Lol. It's crazy I know, but it's kinda fruity sweet and then I don't like the way anything else tastes after eating one. Good luck. I hope this trick works for you.

Lots of great ideas here! Another one that may work is dark mint chocolate, like a Thin Mint or After Eight. The richness of the chocolate plus the mint usually gives me like an "I'm done now" feel.

I also, weirdly, find an apple will get a lot of my sugar cravings. And I discovered I love mango -- especially those slimmer yellowy ones? Anyway, maybe not ANY fruit will stand in for a sugar craving for you, but a specific fruit might.

I also like the hot cocoa suggestion, and it's one I use. (Cocoa powder + 1/4 of the mug of boiled water, add 1 teaspoon agave or sweetener of choice -- one of those mini candy canes or hard candies will give you peppermint & sweetening -- fill up the rest of the mug with foamed milk. If you use cold milk, then use more like 1/2 to 3/4 of the mug of boiled water.)