How do I curb sugar cravings?!??!!

I stopped eating the foods that caused cravings on a regular basis and the cravings went away. Hard to do in the short term but worthwhile in the long term.

If you don't want to eat those foods hang in there, don't eat them and know it gets easier. Best wishes.

I hear you, OP. I have a sweet tooth too.

When I was starting to lose weight, I did not have a lot of self-control around sugary sweets, so I cut them completely out of my diet. The exception: buying one cookie (or similar) at a coffee shop on occasion, to be eaten immediately. But not telling myself "Oh, I will buy this bag of cookies and only eat one per day" because lololol NOPE, if I bought it then I was going to eat them ALL, probably that very day. And then feel extra bad for eating them.

Some people don't have this issue, they just have stellar self-control from day one. Which is great. But don't feel bad if you aren't in that category. For me, my first exercises in self-control were "go grocery shopping while avoiding the sugary aisles." And later on, being able to go down the sugary aisles without buying anything.

These days I actually can buy cookies and candy and only eat one piece a day, but it took a lot of time to get to that point. I think it's easier to manage once your body is already used to being on a calorie deficit. In the meantime sweet fruit like apples can help your sugar craving. Also, those zero-calorie flavored waters.

I find if I ever have like a hard candy butterscotch it revs up my sugar craving. So I discovered best to abstain totally to not feed the animal or prime the pump. A tangerine some other fruit will suffice...

Ok. I apologize. It's not a diet pill though. I will delete if I can figure out how.

BeyCake89 wrote: »

Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »

If you are trying to avoid sweets completely that can make things harder then it needs to.
plan a treat at the end of the night, look forward to that treat.

I don't want to go cold turkey. It's just that once I taste something sweet it's all downhill from there. I guess it it self control.. I gotta work on it

This. It is not like being an alcoholic or drug addict. You really do have the power to not give in to your cravings.

Sometimes I ignore it. Sometimes I drink something...Cup of black coffee or unsweetened herbal tea...or water...or club soda with a lemon or lime. Sometimes I eat something good else that is filling but low calorie. (Carrots, apple slices, ..or something unexpected like a piece of chicken breast lol)

Also if I have enough calories for something sweet I just have it.

The other day I ate mostly candy. It was a foolish move...I stayed within my calories but was really dragging and regretted wasting my calories like I did. Lol

suruda wrote: »

for me sugar is the problem too. I went cold turkey off processed sugar Jan 1. I still eat fruit but no candy, cakes, cookies, creamer, etc... Now that it has been a couple of months I have other things that help curb the sweet cravings...dates, sugar free hot cocoa, sugar free chocolate pudding, a dove dark chocolate (45 calories and I can fit it in with my day)

Mental is the biggest part...you have to be ready!

I'm not trying to challenge you here, I'm just genuinely curious. Do you feel your sugar-free treats help *curb* your sweet cravings or did you just mean that you are substituting them? Lately, I'm finding that sugar-free sweets just kick off a craving for other sweet things.