How to say no to chocolate/sugar! SOS

If you have a little bit of chocolate, dark is better! Try the fat free sugar free flavored liquid creamers. They are so good, so you don't need any sugar in your coffee!

Willpower?
I enjoy sugar of course, I just don't crave it.... give me a few pieces of dark chocolate a day and I'm happy.
If you cut back on the sugar in your coffee bit by bit you wont notice it.
The same goes for other sugary treats, enjoy them but in moderation.

Where theres a will theres a way.

Also ignoring the addiction thing.

What worked for me, and what I encourage others to do, was to think about when I tended to overeat and why. I realized that I ate well at meals (I don't really get how people eat lots of sugar in a meal, as it's not consistent with how I cook), but that I would mindlessly eat stupid stuff at other times, sometimes because it looked delicious (as when someone brings a really good cinnamon coffee cake to work), at other times just because it was there and I wanted a break or was having a hard day or everyone else was eating it. (Pretty much all my dumb eating happened at work, and especially if I worked really late and hadn't eaten since lunch.)

So given my own habits and triggers, what helped me was simply deciding that I would not snack during the day with rare exceptions when I really thought it through, logged it, and decided how to make room for it in the day (i.e., if that coffee cake was worth it I would decide not to have ice cream at night and have a smaller portion of potatoes and larger portion of vegetables with dinner).

I kept in a reasonable, moderate amount of sweet things (not at first, since I was breaking the habit and on low calories, but soon), but they are planned and generally immediately after dinner (or on occasion, lunch, as there is a place that has really good chocolates that I go to for lunch sometimes) and fit in my calories. Including them doesn't make my sugar particularly high, and makes it easy to say no to other things and to moderate, as I know I can always have something tomorrow if it doesn't fit in today. For me it's kind of like calories -- I figured out what I think a reasonable amount of sweet stuff (or other extra food, like cheese, which I sometimes have instead, or fries or whatever) is to have in a day or week and don't go above it. It's not hard to say "later" if you are not thinking in all or nothing terms, for me.

Also, this might not work for everyone, but I cultivated my innate snobbery about what sweets are worth eating. Life's too short for mediocre baked goods or mediocre chocolate, so I'd rather wait and spend the calories on something really good, often in a smaller quantity. That helped with the foods that seemed to be always around at work or in meetings or the like.

alisakorneyeva wrote: »

I am a HUGE chocoholic, and I put about 3 teaspoons of sugar in my cup of tea, along with the inability to hold myself back from other sweets.
Is anyone else like this? How do you motivate yourself to not give in to these alluring monstrosities?!?

I have chocolate every day, I don't need to avoid them. You don't have an inability to hold yourself back from eating all of the sugary things. And they are not monstrosities you need to fear. Just take some small steps, reduce those three teaspoons of sugar to one teaspoon. Buy those small packets of chocolate and have one everyday, if the supermarkets where you are are like mine you'll be able to buy small 40g bars of dark chocolate or milk chocolate if you prefer. Depriving yourself of what you want will make you want it even more, moderating how much you have of it makes it more likely you'll stay in control. Sure someone else has mentioned this, but I ain't got no time to read every dang reply to check.

Try and wean yourself off of the sugar, used to put sugar in my eat and I slowly cut back. As for the chocolate, try something a darker start off with a low percentage like 60% and work your way up. Bonne chance!