I love eating all sweets also and I find fruit helps and crystal light helps tons! :)

this has really helped!! thanks!! :)

Well, I think I found a solution to my problem. I found a peanut butter that is mixed with chocolate. The brand name is Peanut Butter & Co. The name of the flavor is Dark Chocolate Dreams. It taste just like a reese's peanut butter cup. I use 2 tblsps and it takes all of my cravings away.

Thanks everyone for their suggestions.

Wow - I'm so excited to try that banana ice cream idea - sounds delicious! :)

Hey all, I'm just about to begin my weight loss/better me/low sugar plan (again). Sugar is my real downfall too, give me a bag a bag of chips and I'm not that fussed but give me a bag of chewy warm cookies (mouth watering) and I will eat the lot.

I have been on here for a week or so now looking for inspiration and I got it, in buckets!!! I on vacation this week and we have had visitors but I have felt so fat and frumpy that I realised something had to be done once and for all.

Visitors gone home today so I am going the supermarket to get some healthy foods to start. I know I can do this and just have to keep that in mind as I have failed soany times in the past and beat myself up about it.

The stories on here are great, people who have got healthy and lost the weight against all odds is just so motivating! I think I will be on here a lot for support and inspiration!

Thanks all, you are great! :)

As someone with a major sweet tooth, here's what helps me:

1. eat enough protein. Eating every 3-4 hours and including a little protein in each meal/snack helps keep blood sugar stable, which prevents those dips that are often to blame for bad carb/sugar cravings.

2. get enough sleep. Tiredness also often causes you to crave bad carbs and sugar. the body is craving immediate energy, and to our taste buds that spells "cookies" :o
I swear when I go to bed late, the day after I crave sugar way more.

3. drink lots of water. Dehydration can also pass for cravings.

4. focus on whole foods. Lots of the additives in processed food can upset the balance in your body and increase the need for certain vitamins and minerals, which then come out as cravings. Also, processed grains are **** for your blood sugar and will most often result in you craving more starches/sugar.
Make sure you eat lots of fiber-rich foods, especially vegetables, and when you consume grains choose the unrefined version, like brown rice in your soup or steel-cut oats for your oatmeal.

I hope this helps!

Eating half a grapefruit (which takes longer to eat than most fruits imo) and getting absorbed in a good book is the only real thing that helps me. Or getting out of the house.

My sugar cravings DID mostly disappear after I went without chocolate/candy for a week or so. And I loooove chocolate- I used to eat at least a pint of Ben and Jerry's every single day in middle school.

Getting past the first week was hard, but it helped me to look up the calorie content of what I was about to eat and force myself to really consider it before shoving it in my mouth. "500 calories, is this fudge really worth it to me?" Surprisingly often, the answer was no.

I'm not sure why, but now that I'm eating less than I used to, any cravings I have are for salt, not sugar. Usually a couple of crackers will satisfy those cravings.

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I really like to get the frozen bags of fruit (the kind you use to make smoothies), and I just eat them straight from the bag! My favorite are frozen mangoes because they have a soft ice cream consistency so it takes like I'm eating sorbet but I'm just eating fruit. Plus, its 0 points!

Crystal lightttt.. drinking smething sweet all day curbs my cravings ;-)