Need friends with ideas to help calm that ridiculous sweet tooth of mine.

You can do it!!!

Liftng4Lis wrote: »

I make room in my allotment, daily, for some type of "yum".

Definitely this. I could *never* sub fruit for, say, chocolate. Or ice cream. I would rather save some calories every day for sweets. (And I hear you, OP, on snacking while watching shows/movies. It's so ingrained with me, but I'm working on it!)

For those of you who can plug in fruit instead - good job.

I second (or third or so) those who suggest fruit. When I started eating more fruit (aiming for 3 servings of whole fruit a day) my cravings for other sweets reduced dramatically. Yes, fruits have sugar, but less than the typical processed "sweet treat", and in fruit it's packaged with vitamins, fiber, antioxidants, and other such good stuff. And fruit *is* yum.

bclarke1990 wrote: »

Everyone on this site is going to urge you to just eat lots of sweets and "fit it into your macros yolo iifym!!", but from personal experience if you just try to cut out most processed added sugars and stick to natural flavors: fruits, cacao, carob, honey, dates, etc. you'll find that your brain craves less of the things like cereal and candy. That's just my experience, though

Um, no, no one will urge her to eat lots of sweets. That's probably why she is looking to lose the weight in the first place. But instead of giving up sweets entirely, it is possible to leave room in your caloric budget each day for a treat so you don't feel deprived.

What might help and is healthy but is a sweet snack is chopped up bannana with honey drizzled over, its absolutely delicious and healthy aslong as you dont put heaps of honey on.
Also you can get yogurts that are less then 100 callories, I bought loads of them to ensure that if I did want sweet I could have something low and sweet in. I have bannana and custard yogurts in and therejust what I need If im fancying sweet stuff.

Great ideas ppl ! Fruits and veggie snacks are the best, but when all else fails, before you put that milky way in your mouth, I go and brush my teeth! NOTHING tastes good after toothpaste! lol

CannonWhale wrote: »

Great ideas ppl ! Fruits and veggie snacks are the best, but when all else fails, before you put that milky way in your mouth, I go and brush my teeth! NOTHING tastes good after toothpaste! lol

I've heard this before! I think I'll try it. But I've been pretty good so far. My sweet cravings have almost all but subsided. It's only been 3 weeks since I've started this journey but I think changing my overall diet has helped with the cravings. Just thinking about what it takes to burn those calories if I indulge in cakes etc. is enough of a deterrent. LOL

Eating a ketogenic level of carbs has strongly curbed my sugar and carb cravings. It is a high fat, moderate protein, very low carb way of eating. It is especially helpful to those who are insulin resistant/pre or full blown diabetic. The lower your carbs, you get out of the blood sugar swings. Lose those and it is a lot easier to drop sugar/sweets. But you have to lose your fear of fat. Eating fat makes you feel more satisfied. I don't mean trans fats. I mean animal fat or coconut oil primarily.

That is my tip. It is not government approved. :-P I know many will disagree, and I am not looking to debate it. But just research losing weight with ketosis. (NOT diabetic ketoacidosis...two very different things).

With the weight I've lost so far I've had ice cream, cake, brownies, cookies, etc... It's all about calories in and calories out so if you have enough wiggle room in your diet then eat it. If you don't? Work out and make that wiggle room. (Just be careful with MFP exercise calories, I only log about 1/2 of the calories it says I've burned). When you take things away you create this taboo item that makes you want it more.