My trigger is probably fatty CREAMY foods. Even healthy fats.. I can eat just one nectarine and I'm fine, but I ate half an avocado and it took all my willpower to resist the other half!! Usually fatty CREAMY foods, like fat from milk, like cream sauces and chowder... and ICE CREAM! Those kind of foods just get me. I'm trying to learn to control it by eating smaller portions though, since I don't think I could ever cut out these foods completely. I love them too much! The only other LOVE I have after creamy foods would be cakes. I include things like zucchini bread in there, because that's cake to me. Not pie so much, not brownies unless they are really soft and more like cake, and not cookies unless they are soft and more like cake. It's definitely the cake/bread-that-should-really-just-be-called-cake. I just can't stop once I start... it's SOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOD.
I don't crave candy at all though.... not one little big. I think it's more fatty foods I crave, even fatty WITH sweet, but not JUST sweet.
Honestly, my actual biggest triggers aren't food themselves. One is seeing other people eating more than me!!!!! It makes me want to eat more, even if I know I'm eating what I should. I'm not on any 1200 calorie diet either, but we had spaghetti today with my family and grandparents and I actually felt I put a LOT of pasta on my plate - at least 2 cups worth, maybe even three, and I also had a piece of bread with a dab of butter on it and milk. But the rest of my family literally filled their ENTIRE plates with spaghetti and my brother even get two helpings. Seeing my plate next to their's made me feel like I wasn't eating enough, even though I actually WAS. It really messed with my mind.
My other trigger is non-set portion sizes. I have the MOST trouble not overeating when you give me a whole plate of food, because I will want to eat until it is gone. For me resisting eating after I've had the right amount of food is the HARDEST of anything. I have to set out one portion size and put the rest away, because I often fail resisting the urge to clean my plate, unless I'm like STUFFED.