Stupid Cravings
 

what do ya'll do to get over bad cravings? i have not been too good the past 2 days but i need something to make me step away from the dark side..

Hmm.. I dont so much since I had been on my 'kick' after few months.
Stuff I do on occation I guess it chocolate thats my heel, and chip shop chips(fat/home fries for u americans) like home fries that my my mum cooks are when my mum cooks anything nice for the family, then I go and cook something that never smells as gd.


In the begining when I had really bad cravings Id eat something else(cravings are usually for sweet stuff) so eat fruit, bananas and grapes, then when I moved onto eating one 2bar kitkat a day and then I dunno fazed off of it, I dont know why...

If your usually gd, treat yourself. but if your not resist..
I used to get really bad cravings when I first started all this in the evening and to stop myself eating 'bad' foods and eating too late I'd go to bed(drink water) and sleep I was going to sleep at like 9 pm last september for like a month or 2, how sad am I

I have been buying a bag of oranges/tanelos/clemintines etc (all citrus fruits) and peel & section them on the weekends, then put themin a big ziplock bag & keep in the fridge. That way all week long I have easy access to fruit which I like the tase of, convenience of unzipping a bag, and it normally satisfies cravings.
Although, if the craving persists, I will grab a piece of chocolate (1 piece of Dove chcolate ususally does it for me.)

I just eat a piece of string cheese...always works for me!

I brush my teeth, use listerine and pop a peice of gum in and try to distract myself til it's over. Sometimes I'll go get an energy drink (the kind without a million grams of sugar of course), or have a cup of coffee so it feels like I am treating myself. It's hard though. I go through spurts where I don't have problems, then it'll plague me a lot. For me it's not a matter of eating something in its place because I will overeat whatever it is, if I am craving badly, so I try and not eat at those times. I know that might be torture for some, but it's my only choise if I wanna get through it.

Someone suggested before to start painting your nails when a craving creeps in. I never wear nail polish, so I haven't tried that, but I usually visual the scale going up and wait out my cravings. The craving usual subsides after I wait about 10 minutes. Sometimes I come on here and check out the boards!! That always distracts me from the craving.

My cravings are usually for something sweet, so a diet soda, coffee or fruit takes care of it most of the time. There are some great sugar-free syrups for coffee that really help me out. Starbucks also has a few sugar-free syrups (vanilla and hazlenut, I think). It makes coffee taste like such an indulgent treat.

I, also, have a thing for sweets. Sugar-free gum has definitely been my savior, not just in helping me to not give in to my cravings, but also in keeping me from the random snacking I do when I'm bored. I use Extra, winterfresh, bc it's very sweet and flavorful when you first chew it so that takes care of my sweet craving, plus it's minty so I know anything I eat afterwards will taste funny. Don't know if that helps.

Hahaha.... food tasting funny after having something minty totally works for me too. Using Listerine will kill any kind of craving I have usually, partly because the burning sensation distracts me, and partly because if I eat anything afterwards it tastes so weird, so it's not worth it.

If I'm really craving something I have at home, sometimes I'll just throw it out so I can't give in. Sometimes eating something with protein helps, sometimes caffeine helps, sometimes water helps, sometimes fruit helps. Other times, it seems like nothing helps.