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    What's the e best food to satisfy craving?

    Posts: 4 Member
    edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
    Just wondering if anyone knows a good low calorie snack to satisfy craving?

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    • Posts: 2,973 Member
      Smaller portion of the food you're craving
    • Posts: 35,719 Member
      jshrimpton wrote: »
      Just wondering if anyone knows a good low calorie snack to satisfy craving?

      Depends what you're craving? Chicken won't satisfy a craving for chocolate fudge cake!
    • Posts: 125 Member
      jshrimpton wrote: »
      Just wondering if anyone knows a good low calorie snack to satisfy craving?

      A good resource is the "Eat This, Not That" book series. It gives you lower calorie alternative suggestions for those trigger foods that we all know and love.

    • Posts: 1,626 Member
      raw onions
    • Posts: 57 Member
      I crave pizza & cheese, but when I get a craving - the thing that is low calorie and keeps me from not getting hungry for 3 hours is taking 2 tb of powdered peanut butter, mixed w/ a little water, 1 tsp of peanut butter, and 3/4 tsp of raw honey. When I put that on an apple, it somehow tastes so delicious to me and I'm ok after that till dinner. I think it works because it has fat/protein/carbs and fiber. Plus, it's only 173 calories.
    • Posts: 6,666 Member
      I just eat the food I'm craving and work it into my calorie goal.
    • Posts: 797 Member
      lishie_rebooted wrote: »
      Smaller portion of the food you're craving

      ^^This^^
    • Posts: 4 Member
      Shandajh wrote: »
      I crave pizza & cheese, but when I get a craving - the thing that is low calorie and keeps me from not getting hungry for 3 hours is taking 2 tb of powdered peanut butter, mixed w/ a little water, 1 tsp of peanut butter, and 3/4 tsp of raw honey. When I put that on an apple, it somehow tastes so delicious to me and I'm ok after that till dinner. I think it works because it has fat/protein/carbs and fiber. Plus, it's only 173 calories.
      That sounds like a nice treat! Will try this myself .. Thanks
    • Posts: 1,771 Member
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    • Posts: 21 Member
      85% Dark chocolate, dark chocolate is a natural appetite suppressant. Also greek yogurt (plain) with maple syrup.
    • Posts: 104 Member
      Mellouk89 wrote: »
      85% Dark chocolate, dark chocolate is a natural appetite suppressant. Also greek yogurt (plain) with maple syrup.

      I second the greek yogurt! I eat it plain or with maple syrup 80% of the time as an afternoon snack, since I tend to be veeery hungry around 3pm. Guess what, it's filled with protein so I can last for 2 good hours, even 3 i'd say, after eating it without feeling hungry before dinner comes around. Plus, it's one hell of a delicious treat, while being low in calories (I eat 1/2 cup with 1 tbsp maple syrup, rounding up to 140 calories. Totally worth it).
    • Posts: 19 Member
      barbecuesauce wrote: »
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      HA! This is absolutely something I would eat though.
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      lishie_rebooted wrote: »
      Smaller portion of the food you're craving

      I'm sorry but people are always saying this on here and I feel like it's the most worthless advice. If I had good self control and could easily limit myself to small amounts of my "trigger" foods, I wouldn't need to be loosing weight in the first place lol eating a tiny bit of ice cream (or whatever) does nothing for me. I'd personally would rather not have it at all, and therefore avoid failing at limiting myself to a small portion.

      OP, I've found popcorn to help me with a lot of my snack food/munchies craving. My own weakness is pastries and doughnuts, I just cut them out and the cravings went away in about a month.
    • Posts: 17 Member
      edited May 2015
      lrenaee wrote: »
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      I'm sorry but people are always saying this on here and I feel like it's the most worthless advice. If I had good self control and could easily limit myself to small amounts of my "trigger" foods, I wouldn't need to be loosing weight in the first place lol eating a tiny bit of ice cream (or whatever) does nothing for me. I'd personally would rather not have it at all, and therefore avoid failing at limiting myself to a small portion.

      OP, I've found popcorn to help me with a lot of my snack food/munchies craving. My own weakness is pastries and doughnuts, I just cut them out and the cravings went away in about a month.

      You think it's worthless advice? I think your advice is rubbish and is one of the main reasons so many people fail at dieting.
    • Posts: 649 Member
      I keep plain ultra thin pretzels, low cal popcorn and graham crackers in the pantry.
    • Posts: 221 Member
      The food your craving, as for no self control, pay attention when you eat, there is a bite (usually 3 or 4 bites in) when the food doesn't taste as good as the first bite, this is when you stop, because now you're eating just because it's there.

      Or brush your teeth, then you won't want to eat anything for awhile.
    • Posts: 3 Member
      Nice to see people trashing each others' advice when either one would likely be helpful to someone...
      In any event, I try to power through a "bad food" craving, eat as few carbs as possible that day and up the protein. The craving is usually gone the next day.
    • Posts: 283 Member
      Marilyn0924 wrote: »
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      ^^This^^
      This works for me. Chew slowly and savor it.
    • Posts: 1 Member
      Cottage cheese is very low calorie and very high in protein! I have it almost every night when I'm feeling hungry.
    • Posts: 20 Member
      Love it or hate it Marmite on crackers....works if you are a 'savoury' person and hits the cheese when craving snacks.
    • Posts: 1,316 Member
      I was told this by my trainer and I also found it in multiple places on the interwebz

      A piece or two of high cocoa dark chocolate

      It works for me

      I also started eating 10g of it in the morning with my coffee for other health benefits

      I likes dat!
    • Posts: 3,783 Member
      lrenaee wrote: »
      show previous quotes

      I'm sorry but people are always saying this on here and I feel like it's the most worthless advice. If I had good self control and could easily limit myself to small amounts of my "trigger" foods, I wouldn't need to be loosing weight in the first place lol eating a tiny bit of ice cream (or whatever) does nothing for me. I'd personally would rather not have it at all, and therefore avoid failing at limiting myself to a small portion.

      OP, I've found popcorn to help me with a lot of my snack food/munchies craving. My own weakness is pastries and doughnuts, I just cut them out and the cravings went away in about a month.

      Self control aka will power is like a muscle; its grows stronger the more you exercise it.
    • Posts: 314 Member
      I like the yogurt thing: 6-oz cup of nonfat yogurt with unsweetened cocoa powder stirred in. Protein helps stave off hunger - and chocolate just because I need it in my life (and get too tempted with other forms of it in my house)...
    • Posts: 569 Member
      I usually eat what I crave. If it has a lot of calories, I eat smaller portions.
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