Kicking the sweetness from my diet... help!

[Donnakj1967]

Good morning everybody,

I'm wanting to loose about a stone and become a fitter me... love chocolate, and anything sweet 🤔. Challenge I know, any ideas and tips on kicking the sweetness are more than welcome x

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The more sweet stuff you eat the more you want. Its partly about taste but significantly about insulin& blood sugar levels. You are not being a weak willed slob by craving & eating sugar. It’s your physiology. The best way to deal with it is to cut out sugar altogether including fruit except berries. I am a woman who once ate 12 doughnuts in the car in a traffic jam & had to throw the remainder out if the window to stop myself eating them. I refer also to eating 12 chocolate crispie cakes in one go, and not the little ones but home made in muffin. Cases covered in green& blacks chocolate . Having cut out all sugar completely, I now have as much interest in a cake counter as a display of power drills. I have been surrounded by masses of my favourite sweeties as I made up party bags ate not one. I also have a huge amount of left over home made birthday cake but I haven ‘t even tried it. No willpower, just not interested any more.

BUT the idea of never eating sweet stuff again ever is a bit alarming. You don’t have to live your whole life without sugar. Just don’t eat it today. And then tomorrow. My son asks me if I am ever going to eat cake again. Oh yes, I say. I am just not eating it at the moment.

The other massively important top tip is to eat enough good food while you are resisting sugar. By good food, I don’t mean three lettuce leaves & a piece of chicken. I mean good hearty stuff with fat like beef, cheese, pork & eggs.

[moreless Administrator 7 stone]

Hi and welcome, Donnakj1967

I agree with everything Slim_for_good has said and would add that some foods are very quickly converted to sugar in the body, so will also add to your cravings for sweet stuff. Here are a few things for you to look at to further explain:

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Wishing you all the best

[Climb007]

Hi Donna I foubd that increasinf my water intake helped necreduce cravings and eating extracfruit & a littke dark chocolate ( 70 or 90 % coco) helped me. Good luck😊

[OilpainterUS]

Eat a Carb - Crave a Carb! I avoid them and have had a similar experience to Slim_for_good in that I rarely want sweets. It's very liberating to be free of carb cravings.

Try less than 20 grams of carbs - eating only vegetable carbs - for 2 days. I think you'll see a major reduction in cravings.