I can't stop eating Chocolate!!! Or sweets!! :(

I let myself have something sweet once a week. I've also been looking up healthy dessert recipes. Willpower! Good luck!

Of course you can stop eating chocolate and sweets! Simply don't put them in your mouth. If you feel they are too much temptation, then why have them in your house?

But even if they are in the house, you can not eat them if you really don't want to eat them. Sweets are not going to stalk you and jump in your mouth. You have to make the decision to eat them ... or not.

Start gradually cutting back. There is nothing for it but willpower. After you start cutting back, the cravings will lessen, it just takes a while. I used to eat tons of baked goods and I still have sweets when I want them, but I decide when that will be. It's nice not to be a slave to the cravings.

I thought the same thing for a while!
My first motivation was that it wouldn't fit into my calorie limits (I was at 1200 at the time).
So I stuck to fun size and tried to really enjoy it while I was eating it.
I stopped buying it so it wasn't at home. Its a lot easier to say no to it in the store than in the freezer.
I switched to fat free frozen yogurt and kept the scoops small.
It took a lot of control.
My last job had lots of treats just lying around as well and I had to make an effort to not go look or check out what people have brought in. Not knowing whats there makes it easier to think that its not appetizing.
Finally I gave up all candy for lent (my religious commitments helped a lot).
Easter morning I mowed down on Starburst jellybeans and 2 carbury caramel eggs.
And felt like CRAP for the rest of the day.
I just remember that feeling when ever I think I want candy.

i honestly understand.. just a second ago I ate a small bit of easter egg, then returned and ate the whole thing and then the chocolate bar that came with it inside!!

I've learnt that if i don't have it I won't obsess over it, if i eat a small bit I need to eat the whole thing. :frown:

I always have sugar free jello and fat free cool whip made and ready. It gives me a sweet desert without many calories just to take the edge off. Oh, in the recipe section look for the chocolate molton lava cake recipe...awesome for the chocolate fix. I always add strawberries and cool whip to it to make it a 'larger' dessert.

Pre-logging my food for the day really helps me. Take today for example- I logged that I will eat some animal crackers, peanut butter and chocolate chips after dinner. Knowing that I have that to look forward to helps me resist eating chocolate during the day. And having the portions planned out helps me not overeat at night. It is all about being in control for me- and pre-logging is one of my biggest sources of control!

(if you peek at my diary please disregard yesterday's major fail...I'm a work-in-progress)

I used to be this way. I found out that when I switched to eating "clean/paleo" my cravings dropped off. It sucks to go cold turkey for a few weeks but then I found my cravings dropped off. I can now say no to cake or ice cream or whatever shockingly easy. Now I have a piece of dark chocolate most days and it doesn't trigger the cravings back again.

I love desserts too, so I've just learned to cut back on what I eat. I could never give them up completely! If I bake a cake or something I make sure all the ingredients are low fat to cut the calories and then just limit myself to once slice a day. If it's packaged food I try and just eat the guideline portion that they have under the nutritional information part.

Try Kellog's Chocolate Krave Cereal. If you need to have sweets everyday, this should help curb your cravings. I pre-measure one serving and bring it in a snack cup or sandwich bag to work for my 3pm craving. Only 120 calories and it has some nutrients.

I am absolutely the same! I LOVE chocolate - however, I honestly only know one way to stop eating it. COLD TURKEY!
See if I have one taste, I'll have more and more and more - I have gone cold turkey (absolutely no chocolate, even on cappucino etc) for a week or so, the first two days are the worst, but once you've done 24 hours, you'll have more will power.

I've tried 'replacing' it with fruit bars/special k bars etc, but honestly, I am a firm believer that if you have a sweet tooth, it's easy to turn one 'little try' into a night of binge.

I couldn't agree more, it's a big snowball.

When I get a sugar craving, I go for 1 or 2 medjool dates. You can buy them at Trader Joes and they taste and have a texture like caramel, but are all natural sugar, and super high in fiber. Definitely fends off the sweet cravings. Good luck!

But I haven't added my dinner yet. I'm a little confused on how to do so, cause I made bacon wrapped chicken,with sour cream and turkey gravy (I didn't have cream of broc soup:( ) cooked in the crock pot, so I don't really know how I'd track that....:>/

Just create a recipe in the Recipes section... you can add all the ingredients you used, and enter how many servings it was.

LOVE chocolate, and sweets, and FOOD. i've never watched what I ate until a week ago.

Don't feel bad about being addicted, there's a scientific reason to it. Chocolate triggers the release of certain neurotransmitters in the brain. It feels addictive because it is LOL. So it wont be easy to quit but try to find substitutes.

My favorite is pineapple. ripe pineapple, mixed with blackberries and strawberries. So sweet and so yummy.