Sweet Tooth

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lauren_clairee
lauren_clairee Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I have such a sweet tooth, how do i avoid chocolates and sweets and all things nice?

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  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
    Don't. Eat your other foods, meet your macros, and fit a small amount of the chocolate you want to meet your calorie deficit for the day. Completely avoiding foods leads to bingeing. Allowing yourself a small amount of the sweets you like and meeting your goals each day will make you feel accomplished and the weight will still come off.
  • macgurlnet
    macgurlnet Posts: 1,946 Member
    I have a sweet tooth, too.

    Instead of completely avoiding them, I try to only have sweets as an after dinner dessert - which means I've gotten in most of my calories for the day, have hopefully met my macros pretty well, and still have room for a treat.

    Individually wrapped chocolates can be a great way to help limit how much you eat, too.

    ~Lyssa
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    You eat then within your caloric needs. You don't even need to eat the "good" stuff first - I've had pizza for breakfast for two days now. I've had chocolate with breakfast. Etc.
  • booksandchocolate12
    booksandchocolate12 Posts: 1,741 Member
    edited March 2015
    I eat chocolate every day. No need to avoid anything if you can fit the calories in to your day.
  • suruda
    suruda Posts: 1,233 Member
    I have chocolate almost every day too....I usually wait until I've had most of my calories and that helps determine how much chocolate I can have! :-) It's totally worth working it in to your calories for the day!
  • chriscolh
    chriscolh Posts: 127 Member
    I've got a killer sweet tooth. In my defense, I'm gonna blame genetics. Both my grandmothers were sweets-addicted. My grandma's doctor kept on telling her that she needed to cut out chocolate milk. She drank it until the day she died - at age 94. Anyway, I digress...
    I have a hard time eating sweets in moderation. Like, really hard. I know that I can't use the word "addiction" without being blasted by the "you can't be addicted to sugar" critics, but when I start my day off with sugar, then I think about sugar all day. I find myself in the pantry looking for sweetened condensed milk and large lumps of brown sugar in my sugar bin. I will eat powder for chocolate milk off a spoon. I will drink molasses. And when I really want sugar and try to not have sugar, my hands actually shake. So yes, I have a sweet tooth.
    The way I control my cravings is to avoid sugar. But the thought of never having sugar again makes me really sad. I agree with others when they say totally avoiding it will lead to binging. But I've found that I can handle having 5 sugar-free days a week, while allowing myself treats 2wice a week. It works for me. The longer I go without sugar, the less I crave it. But when I start obsessing about cookies, brownies, chocolates, etc., I tell myself that I can have some in just x-number of days. It helps.
    I guess that the bottom line is to do what works for you. If you can handle fitting it into your daily macros, go for it! (wish I could!) But if you have to avoid it for a little while to get control of your cravings - like I do, - then do that.
    Good luck on your journey!
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