Normally for breakfast I dump some egg beaters in a bowl, add some fresh spinach, cook for 2 minutes, add a slice of mozarella, cook another minute, and VIOLA! Breakfast.

Today I added in some diced tomatoes from my garden. For whatever reason (I guess cause they were sweet - especially after cooking) after eating it I had a terrible urge to eat anything and everything sweet. Instead I grabbed a handful of almonds and ate them (and they tasted sweet too - wierd!).

I'm scared to eat some for lunch with my tuna, although I've been eating alot of tomatos and never had this reaction before. It was kind of scary.

Hmmm, funny you mention this cause I have been pondering how I make this a lifestyle and not just a diet. And I think the key is not avoiding anything that triggers a craving but learning how to work through the craving. KWIM?

And I learned from your post. You did everything right, you wanted a scooby-snack and reached for the safety of high protein almonds.

lunch goes well for you.

Yeah, but those almonds were my snacks and now I'm snackless

A few nights ago, I was hit by an inexplicable craving for sweets, too. I don't think it was related to anything I had for dinner. I ended up having some peanuts and a TON of water. I still wanted sweets, but I was too full of water to eat another bite. Still not sure what the trigger was...

Well, lunch was fine. Tomatos aren't as sweet if they're raw so maybe that was the problem.

They also have less nutritional value raw because the lycopene levels are higher when cooked. I wonder if they are really what set you off? What a puzzle!

Wendy, if you eat your snack, feel free to have more veggies later...bell pepper strips with hummus, celery with laughing cow cheese, etc. Don't starve yourself!

Sometimes you just have hungry days and some days you have certain cravings that are really hard to shrug. I don't crave anything starchy anymore but regularly get a real urge for chocolate which I often give into. I keep a bottle of diet coke and some herbal teas around so that when I crave something sweet I can have something that is not full of sugar.

I'm sure it was the tomatos. Anyhow, I survived it but it's probably the strongest craving I've had for a long time.

If I absolutely must have chocolate (PMS days) then I will eat a small handful of mini semi sweet choco chips and that usually takes care of it.

I do the same thing!!