I have lots of methods to getting my sweet craving out of the way.

My first thing is to get fruit. Fruit has natural sweeteners and is way better than grabbing chocolate or a cookie. But for me, I don't always have that option since I'm a college girl. My fridge is tiny and my fruit usually goes bad before I can eat all of it! :(

I also keep around small squares of dark chocolate. I also love Snack Wells! They have these mini cookie packs that are 100 cals. I try not to eat a lot of them but maybe 1-2 a month if I need it.

I also found these weight watchers mini fudge bars in the freezer aisle. They are so yummy and only 45 calories.

If I have a craving, I try not to just suck it up and get over it because I feel like it makes me sad and will make me want to crack and just forget the dieting all together. Everything is okay in moderation! Don't stress yourself out about it. :)

Occasionally we buy a Green and Blacks organic chocolate bar, I really like the milk chocolate or the almond one. It is really good chocolate and has a bit higher coco % in it. They also sell dark chocolate too.

Anyway 20 grams is 105-120 cals depending on type of bar, that is two strips on the big bar which is 100 grams. I will have that with 4 oz of skim milk and that really fits the bill. I eat it slowly and savour it. It is such nice chocolate that a small amount is sufficient.

I recently discovered frozen blackberries make a great treat. One at a time in the mouth, they take awhile to become soft enought to chew (or squish between the tongue and roof my mouth). 1/2 - 1 cup completely satsifies the sweet tooth (of which my mouth is full of!), it takes a long time to eat, and you can control the calorie count.

It helps to understand your craving. I used to be a smoker. I would smoke at the end of a meal...that was my signal to be "done". After I quit, I couldn't quit eating...and eventually replaced the cigarette with something sweet (this would partially explain the added 25 lbs after I quit). Now I'm looking for better sweet things than the large, processed portions of stuff I was eating. The berries make me very happy!

If you know you need something at the end, will binge heavily if you don't get something, then find that little something that will take care of it (pudding, 2 Kisses, yogurt, etc). If the one little taste leads to more and more at each sitting, then find an alternative...teeth brushing, gum chewing, water drinking, etc. But find what works for you that fits into your plan!

I remember reading once that after a meal, it's pretty natural for your body to want something sweet, like it's a trigger that it's the end of the eating session. Can you work a sweet little dessert into your plan? Or get some grapes or sweet fruit, something that can trip your 'sweet' mechanism without breaking the caloric bank?

This may not help a chocoholic but whenever I am craving something after dinner I always go for my apples and peanut butter! I cut up 1 small apple, put some cinnamon on the slices, microwave for 1.5min then I take 1 TBSP on peanut butter put that in a dish microwave that for a couple seconds. Dip the tasty apples in the peanut butter. So good and always leaves me satisfied, just remember to save some calories for it.

This happens to me about 3 times a week. I keep a bag of Hershey's kisses in the freezer. One, Kiss, is enough.

By the time, I've let that one kiss melt in my mouth and swallowed it, it's enough.

For me, it's not about the amount of sweet somethings, it's just that I get it. One kiss takes care of it.

I would rather eat the one kiss and count it than wander around the kitchen or lunch room picking at stuff that would amount to more calories or WW PP than are in the one kiss.