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.)

I picked up a bag of mini Smarties boxes on sale (Valentine's stock!). One of those is 45 cals and because they're tiny I can eat them slowly and get the same feeling as if I've eaten a full sized serving.

I have to have my sweets everyday too. The Fiberone brownies are life savers. They are only 90 calories and since they have more fiber so they are a little more filling. Yes they are small..I tend to break off a little piece at a time to eat it more slowly to enjoy it more lol. Also skinnycow has some really good reduced fat and sugar free ice cream treats.. They have ice cream sandwiches at about 140 calories each, and some ice cream bars at like 100 calories.. Those I think are actually a decent size

melimomTARDIS wrote: »

a regular oreo is 45 calories.

Huh. I bought some not too long ago and it was 70 calories.

Francl27 wrote: »

melimomTARDIS wrote: »

a regular oreo is 45 calories.

Huh. I bought some not too long ago and it was 70 calories.

I think yours were Double Stuff Oreos. Three regular Oreos are 160, making a single around 53 cals.