How can I stop eating sweets??

Sugar is addictive.

It makes the sugar in your blood go up. Then you create way to much insuline to deal with the sudden sugar. The insuline makes your blood sugar drop lower than before the sweets. Then you crave them again because your blood suger is too low.

Dealing with sugar cravings is tough. Still, it's possible. Until two years agao I ate lots of sweets and didn't feel well about it. It took three days without sugar to stabilise my blood sugar level, and since then I eat very little, and don't miss it much.

Do give it a try, just 72 hours!

Don't buy them in the first place, particularly ones that trigger you to eat more than your intended.

I also throw them in the freezer if they're lying around from some event.

I have candy from Halloween, and it's been horrible! I have been trying to keep to frozen fruit. I put some in the fridge to thaw in the morning and I eat it as my after work snack when I get home. It's sweet enough for me without making me binge because I can only eat what I put out.

I know I'm probably gonna get slammed for this but here's what I did. I started drinking water with sugar free fruit flavored liquid drops in it (kool-aid, crystal light etc.). That helped. Yes I know artificial sweetners aren't good for me but neither was the sugar. I have pretty much kicked my candy habit now. I still indulge occasionally in sugar free candy but one or two pieces (10 cal each). Good luck.

I curb my sweet tooth sometimes with 60% cacao chocolate chips (8-16 Ghirardelli chips) a little sweetened coconut flakes, and a few almonds microwaved in a mug. Tastes like an almond joy! Paleo, fiber filled, and protein too to satisfy and fill you up.

As others have said,maybe just don't have them in the house and therefore accessible? (That's the only way I was able to quit smoking!)

I've literally been crying while eating before because I can't stop, so I know what it's like. My honest advice from my own experience is to swap junk food for good food. Instead of eating sweets, eat fruit. Get sweet from a good place. Then just eat less and less fruit at night until you don't need it anymore. If you're going to eat superfluous calories, it may as well be whole food! Stuff your face with whole food, and you'll get full, and after a few days you won't have cravings for sweets, and fruit isn't addictive so you can just drop it if you want. Really you need to stop focusing on what not to eat, and start focusing on what to eat for a while. Just eat maintenance calories of a whole food diet for a while so your brain gets used to what food is meant to be like. That's basically the advice of Jon Gabriel, who has flavoured a lot of my thinking on weight loss. But after all is said and done, there is no secret. For instance, I have an insane addiction to chocolate. Most of my excess weight comes from chocolate. To me, it's like a drug. But I haven't even thought about chocolate in weeks, and haven't had any in maybe... 2 months. Why? I simply abstain. I don't buy it. I don't eat it. There's really no way around it. It's hard in the beginning. There's no trick, you just have to make yourself do it. Eventually the desire goes away. You have to realize that if you eat it, you'll just want more later. Some people seem to be able to eat a little bit of these types of foods, but I honestly think their brains work differently. I saw my tiny ex-gf eat small portions of chocolate and put it away. To my mind, that was some kind of weird voodoo magic. lol

I'm still on my journey myself, but I do feel like I have control over any junk food desires.