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How do you ease your "Sweet Tooth"?

I don't crave sweets.
Salt and fat is what I like.

My husband like sweets so I bake him cookies and make ice cream cakes....both of which I end up eating too ;)
 
D's said:
So here lately I've been getting such a bad sweet tooth. Now that I'm off drugs it's like my brain wants to still be rewarded, like everytime I do something my brain tells me to do something, like smoke a cigarette. i'm trying to quit smoking so cant smoke everytime I do something.

It's the sweets. I've gobbld up 3 big bags of skittles in the past 4 days. I know this cant be good for my health. I could use some ideas, how do u ease your "sweet tooth"?
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I really like drinking mango juice or banana juice " 100 % organic "
Helps me. Just a second opinion
 
I was wondering the same thing! :\

I have a wicked sweet-tooth, and if I let myself, I'd eat sugar laden treats for every meal of the day!

I find having a large, filling and HEALTHY breakfast will give me the power to get through my day and I won't crave sweet things nearly as much as I otherwise would. My worst cravings are when I'm tired and hungry, and have missed a meal.
Following the large breakfast with a medium sized (healthy) lunch and a modest (healthy) dinner helps too - and if I'm feeling the cravings, I'll try to have mixed berries or low-fat yoghurt for desert. :)
 
Blehhh, so far the only way I've attempted curing my sweet tooth is to eat sweets lol. One day when my metabolism starts going downhill I'm going to have to find a better way to cope lol. Not that over-indulging in sweets is good regardless of metabolism lol.
 
Fresh fruit (bananas, apples, oranges, kiwi, mango....). Fruit smoothies. Splenda (although it's probably worse than sugar :\).

Excercise, even a moderate amount (say, a 20 minute walk), will help stave off seratonin induced cravings. Audio books keep me entertained during my walks. I really look forward to my daily dose! I sometimes walk as much as an extra couple of miles, just to keep listening to my story! (I only listen while excercising, to keep my incentive up.) I really notice a huge difference in food cravings when I miss even one or two days.
 
I'll usually make a smoothy/sorbet kinda thing with ice/berries/leaves/lsa/milk or pineapple juice and have it with a cigarette

they go together like a house on fiyah

but 90% of the time ill go to the petrol station and buy some lollies or ice creams or biscuits :|
 
shit, y'all are better ppl than me! my sweet tooth satisfaction usually comes from an ice cream bar with chocolate milk and some candy, but thats just me lol (ESPECIALLY when i had just quit dope! man i was mean on the sweets!!!)

BUT lately i have been trying diligently to cut back on the sugar intake, i'm sorry but fruit just doesn't cut it--what does is one piece of 100% dark chocolate THAT does the trick!!! its super rich, delicious! and doesn't leave me craving more

best of luck 2 u!
 
If I am visiting the US it is Ben and Jerry's "Willie Nelson's Peach Cobbler" ice cream, peaches and cinnamon shortbread pieces in peach ice cream. A second choice is their "Steve Colbert's American Dream" which is vanilla ice cream with milk chocolate covered pieces of waffle cone.

Unfortunately I am usually in Mindanao in the Southern Philippines and the only ice cream is Nestles, full of garbage (20 chemicals, no real ingredients). The best they have is Ube flavoured. Ube is an indigenous tuber, a purple sweet potato. The colour is great but the flavour is as one might imagine...like a potato.

I tend to rely on fruit. My favourite is an indigenous fruit, Lanzone (Lanzones is the plural). They are the size of grapes and each is encased in a paper like skin (though tamarinds are in pods it is the same skin). You peel it and it breaks into sections like a navel orange. The fruit itself is white fleshed with very bitter seeds. The only downside is they are super sticky. Other than them I wait for mandarin oranges which we only get imported from Taiwan once a year for a 2 month season.

Nothing else really does it. There are some American candies like Snickers and Butterfinger but I feel guilty buying them. They cost 2 times the daily wage of a labourer for a single candy bar and when I buy them in the 1 chain that carries them (Mercury Rx) the clerks look at me like I am Donald fuc*ing Trump, it un-nerves me (Kidnappings are NOT fun).
 
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