Keeping the sweet tooth at bay.....

[powwerr]

You know what its like, your eating healthily and being good....But


All the cakes and chocolate and crisps are just there all the time!! everywhere!

So im asking the PH massive how they keep the cravings for sweet stuff at bay?? I can eat all the bananas and apples and protein bars you want but i always crave the proper stuff. Also on another point, how bad is redbull?

answers please! im struggling here

[Pete102]

Cold turkey only seems to work for me I have a proper chocolate tooth, its either all or nothing.

Seems to go away after a few days, lots of water.

[powwerr]

Im the same, i can go for a week no problem but all of a sudden i just feel empty and want to pig out as soon as i walk into a newsagents or similar.

[MacGee]

just keep them out of the house then you wont be tempted...god I love chocolate...

[Tiggsy]

As above....cold turkey. I find that after a couple of weeks I have no interest in sweet stuff...yet when I am in fat mode I could do 3/4 packs of crisp and the same in chocky bars a day with ease.

Only annoying thing is I have a house of kids and it's a pain watching my 7 year old chomp his way through a kitkat while showing me his 6 pack and laughing (scum)

[powwerr]

Haha, fortunatly theres rarely any chocolate in my house. Dont get me wrong i still eat it sometimes, youve got to but i do stuggle!

[jas xjr]

i am a diabetic and have a sweet tooth. every time we go food shopping all i see is the bad stuff.
i eat sugarfree yougurts but they are no substitute. tried sugar free sweets but they have bowel loosening effect.

[Harry Flashman]

I have to not have it in the house. Chocolate is a massive weakness of mine.

Same with cheese.

[powwerr]

Yup cheese too! Being half italian theres plenty of parmesan in my house!

[turbolucie]

If I get a bad sugar craving I have a cup of tea with sugar in it. 50cals sure, but at least it prevents me from getting a whole bar of chocolate and doing a major amount of calories!

[drivin_me_nuts]

I used to be a chocolate addict as well. What worked for me was buying some high cocoa mass chocolate - 85% odd. I physically cannot eat more than a small piece of it before saying enough. Same with crisps. Sometimes what's worse is wanting them and not having them - leave some in the house - but the flavour you don't particularly enjoy.

[powwerr]

drivin_me_nuts said:

ISometimes what's worse is wanting them and not having them - leave some in the house - but the flavour you don't particularly enjoy.

Crisps are my main weakness, would take a packet of S+V over a dairy milk any day. So any flavour in my house would be snaffled! even bbq!

[lucee]

Its probably not that healthy but if I get a craving for something sweet after dinner or whenever I have a mint imperial.

They take so long to eat that I feel like I've had enough.

sometimes I have two but its alot better than having 2 biscuits or a chocolate bar haha

[drivin_me_nuts]

lucee said:

Its probably not that healthy but if I get a craving for something sweet after dinner or whenever I have a mint imperial.

They take so long to eat that I feel like I've had enough.

sometimes I have two but its alot better than having 2 biscuits or a chocolate bar haha

... I had the same for many years - I found the answer was those sugar free jelly type sweets - a bit like wine gums but much smaller. They used to do the trick quite nicely.