Help with a crazy sweet tooth

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Diet Swiss miss Hot Chocolate!!! It seriously saves me every time. It's only 25 calories, and it is amazzzing! It will solve your sweet tooth problem; I promise :-)

Why don't you try the Snackwells snack packs, Nature Valley granola thins w/chocolate on the bottom or Fiber One makes a a really good 90calorie bar thats pretzels, chocolate and caramel. All of the above give you your chocolate fix for not many calories. Hang in there girlie. I've had my fair share of sports related injuries, one last weekend as a matter of fact. Being out of commission is hard but try to be strong and remember if your going to head for the chocolate to go for something thats slightly healthy w/chocolate in it and drink plenty of water!!

I totally agree with this....but I would like to add that I will mix up a chocolate protein shake (Isoflex) which give me not only my chocolate fix, but protein and water consumption as well.

Apple Cider Vinegar can get rid of your sugar cravings (but it tastes bad). 3T ( take it like a shot) followed by a glass of water (I recommend a LARGE glass of water), 2-3 x day.

ACV also fights candida (yeast) in the gut, which is a major cause of sugar cravings.

good luck.

I have a horrible, horrible sweet tooth and every night around 8 p.m., it flares up ready to cause trouble. After several months tracking and logging my food, I've learned that if I allow myself any sugar at all, the cravings actually get worse. I used to think, "oh, I'll just have one cookie so I can stop thinking about it." I figured if I let myself indulge, it would stop me from being so OCD about it. What I came to realize though, is I can't stop at just one cookie. Some people can, but that's just not me. If I let myself have one bit of bad sugar, I spiral down, down, down. Artificially sweet foods are just as bad, so I can't rely on those either. Another poster mentioned SnackWells packs, those may work for some but can be equally as dangerous if you eat more than one pack. Plus, who wants to fill their body with artificial chocolate?

Anyways, what I've found is I really have to completely abstain from added sugars for about a week, and then things get easier. I only allow myself to eat natural sugars a.k.a. fruit and that helps. Try having a few strawberries or grapes and a cup of coffee, see if that helps your headache.

I'm still struggling with this myself, and it's not easy. Stick with it, you're already doing great by logging. Try to realize that food can be just as addictive as drugs. I consider my problem with sugar an addiction and like a drug addict, I have to be completely clean and sober of sugar, otherwise all my bad habits will come back.

I had such a sweet tooth, but since I started MFP what I've found works best for me
is to eat healthy during the day and I usually have calories left by afternoon/evening
(especially if I exercised), I will have a couple of chocolate chip cookies or whatever
I'm craving and I still am often under my calorie goal. It has helped me since I don't
see any food as forbidden; just whether I have enough calories left to fit it in. Even
eating the sweets sometimes, I am losing (although I probably have a lot more to lose).

Also, I like individual servings of cinnamon applesauce and sometimes it satisfies my
sweet tooth because it tastes really sweet to me.

Sugar free chocolate pudding is my go to. I buy the snack packs...even the jello brand "decadent" flavors come in at about 60-80 cals.

I have huge problems with sugar. If I have even a granola bar it can trigger a sugar binge for me. I find that instead of having a small snack pack of a treat (which wil make me go back for the whole box) I do really well if I have fruit for something sweet. Satisfies the sugar craving without making me go back over and over again. My favourites are peaches, strawberries and nectarines.

I am exactly the same. I have finally realized that I am a true sugarholic and cannot have even a little bit. I have been sugar free for 3 or 4 weeks now. It was tough at first, but last night we had a family birthday and I was able to pass up the chocolate birthday cake (which is my favorite dessert of all time).
I knew if i had even one small piece that it would start me on a binge for sure.

I'm so glad to not be the only one with sugar/chocolate addiction. One sugary item sets off a binge, then I can hear the voice in my head saying, 'There's not enough sugar in the WORLD to satisfy this'. Jeez! That's what got me into this predicament. I must avoid it.

Two words, dark chocolate. 1 or 2 pieces will do it for the sweet craving and it has plenty of health benefits.

This might sound completely insane, but if you need something sweet with very little calories try Crystal Light Energy in Strawberry. They're those little skinny packets of powdered flavoring you add to water, and this particular spin off (the 'Energy' ones) are suppose to be quite caffeinated and boast no sugar but has a very sweet intense flavor. So much so that half a packet for me is more then enough. I am not kidding on how sweet and candy-like this can taste. Each full packet is only 5 calories as well.

Seriously though. This stuff is sweet, really sweet, almost TOO sweet for me!

Small portions of GOOD dark chocolate tend to satisfy me fairly well. Valor, Dagoba, Lindt, all have tasty flavored dark chocolate bars. 2 square for less than 100 calories...

i agree so very mush. i dont know about the valor or dagoba, never heard of it, and my mom had a candy store that i used to help her with alot. lindt was a constant in the store though, and just plain hersheys too. my fave of all time= hersheys dark chocolate. the king size!!!! i always break it into all the pieces that it suggest first, and then only have four or five pieces, depending on the craving size. and this is coming from someone who is so addicted to chocolate that if there was a rehab, id have been committed plenty of times. if you can get away with just that little amount, and not binge, go for it, but you have to be able to make yourself stop after those pieces. if it helps, get someone to watch you eat it, and have them take it away from you afterwards, lol. also, dark chocolate is the best healthy-wise too, because it has less milk, therefor less fat and calories, plus its almost pure cocoa which is chalk full of endorphins, and everyone knows those make you happy, too. plus the caffiene usually not just helps my headaches, but solves them, lol.

I have a terrible sweet tooth, and when I want something sweet, I reach for fruit. It was hard at first, but it's really helped me reign in my sugar cravings, and now I can satisfy my cravings with less sugar.