Sugar Addict

im the same way, i live with my family and my aunt always has freshly baked goods on the counters. Try planning your day ahead of time and adding the calories in for that food (or save 300 calories for something sweet)
So that way when you do eat it you arent over your calorie limit for the day. And you can look forward to it and enjoy it instead of feeling guilty.

I honestly am not sure if quitting cold turkey would be easy because if your bf always has the sweets around, youre going to want to eat them, and probably will cave in...atleast I would.

Or maybe ask him to not leave the sweets around where you can see them and be tempted to eat them?

I have a strong sweet tooth as well. Log it before you eat it. That way, you can decide whether it's worth it. Eat smaller portions. Eat lighter versions (low fat ice cream, popsicle, etc.). One of the things I do is to make protein shakes and freeze (today's version was ON vanilla, greek yogurt, almond milk, banana, strawberries, chia seeds - Massive portion, and I ate it all). My go-to is crystallized ginger - sweet, not too calorie dense, and satisfies my sweet tooth.

I have a similar problem in my home. I have my boyfriend hide his sweets. Out of sight, out of mind, however one time I spent 45 minutes looking for donuts he hid. By the time I found them I didn't want them anymore (and I burned calories searching! ha.)

I keep tons of fruit for my cravings..or sugar free pudding or jello. My go to substitute is always an apple out of the fridge.

Try the skinnycow ice creams, frozen yogurt, or the fat free bryers ice cream. Its all relatively low calorie, and at my local yogi castle they often have froyo thats both nonfat and sugar free. You can load it up with fruit and sometimes i do granola, its delicious but not horrible on your calorie count. And i know that for 1/2 cup of the bryers fat free ice cream its like 90 calories, not bad.

Have you tried the Fiber One brownies? They are good and contains 5grams of fiber and less sugar ...maybe u should try that or eating a piece of fruit when ur craving the sugar.

YES!!! Those brownies are awesome!!!!

I can sympathise as I am getting major sugar cravings at the moment and am finding that I have been putting weight on also just found out that I am very anemic so not sure if this is why I am also craving sugar. I need to find the willpower to stay away from it as it is wrecking my diet. Any one got any ideas

I've also found that hard candy - when you choose the right kind - has fewer calories, lasts longer because you can suck on it, and help stop the craving. Claeys old fashioned root beer candy - 3 pieces (good for 45 minutes if you suck on them) 50 calories. That's my goto right now. Good Luck!

I am very similar to you. I have a few strats I use to cope with this.

I don't deny myself goodies. I just use the calories on them only when I've been good for a bit. Like I went grocery shopping couple of days ago and saw the calories on a chocolate bar was 220 for a small bar and I just told myself i'll have it next week instead.

I keep chocolate Ovaltine at home. With a glass of 1% milk, its about 150 calories which I can deal with since I usually have that many calories left anyways

Try the Fudgsicle Brand No-Sugar Added fudgsicles. First, they're awesome. Second, they're only 40 calories per pop, which means you could have 7 of them and still be 20 calories under your 300 calorie bowl of ice cream (not that I recommend that;). I think each pop has like 2-2.5 grams of sugar. Really, I don't know anyone who doesn't love these once they try them.

Ohhh I am most definitely a sugar addict. I tried to keep sweets in my diet by eating small portions of them and making sure they fit in my daily cals.. however, for me this did not work as having one portion of something sweet would trigger me to take more and more and completely blow it. So then I tried super artificial/processed foods like sugarfree puddings, sodas, jelly, icecreams all sweetened artificially. Although this made it easier to avoid real sugar (most of the time), it didn't help with the trigger effect... I'd just eat more and more sugarfree things. Then I thought, even if I mangaed to keep subduing my cravings by eating a bowl of sugarfree jelly and 2 sugarfree puddings a day, there's no way I was comfortable consuming so many chemicals every day for the rest of my life - not healthy. Then I went cold turkey: no sugar or sweeteners of any kind. Cravings/sleepiness/bit of a headache the first few days... then a week later, started feeling better! More energy, no headache and cravings were already dying down. I increased my intake of good fats, like in nut butter and avocados because this supposedly helps. It did help in leaving me more satisfied after meals. After a fortnight, I was no longer craving sugar at all. My family eats a lot of sweets but I would just look at the cakes/cookies and genuinely be like "meh", didn't have any urge to eat them! You think it will be like "wow I'm craving sugar after 24hrs without it, surely by the end of 14 days I would've lost my mind!" But it's not like that, it quickly gets easier, not harder. Anyway, this is just what worked for me.. I am a "all or nothing" person in many aspects of life. You just have to find what works for you... if you're someone who is satisfied and can keep in control by having some dark chocolate or small treat now and then, i'm very jealous! i've always wanted to be an "everything in moderation" person lol.