Heather! Love that avatar!
About the Peanut Butter Cup (I love it too...still eat it every night even in P2!
), you can have it once a day. You're
allowed 75 calories of sweet treats (those are non-nutritive, sugar-free, sweet foods, like jell-o, popsicles, hard candy, pudding (in P2), etc.)
each day. More than that and you have the possibility of getting sick from sugar alcohols (it's not a pretty thing...ask my husband who consumed a ton of SF caramels and was in a world of pain for an entire night...
) and messing up your weight loss.
When you are craving something sweet, try something that doesn't use those calories, like:
- tea (try Celestial Seasonings herbal "English Toffee" tea if you can find it...it is DIVINE, especially with a little milk and splenda, or SF caramel/english toffee/butter rum syrup!)
- a decaf latte with skim milk and SF syrup
- chai tea (make your own using SF chai syrup or a chai tea in a tea bag with milk and splenda)
- overnight slaw (it's in the SBD book...sounds weird, but some Beachies swear by it for curing their sweet tooth!)
- 3 bean salad
If that doesn't work, try having a
small sweet treat, like:
- SF Jell-o (10 calories)
- SF hard candy (anywhere from 2-15 cals)
- SF gum (anywhere from 1-5 cals)
- SF popsicle (around 10-25 cals)
Okay?
Here's some more info that might be helpful:
You’ll find the Emergency Handbook for Phase 1 immensely useful, I think:
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=58183
For those, like Heather, who don’t like or are tired of eggs for breakfast, check out my post on breakfast alternatives…the Beachies all chimed in and we have tons of great ideas in this thread!
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57532
If you’re thinking of doing Phase1 longer than normal, think again and check out this thread:
http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=52754