As the title says.
I’m not crazy about fizzy drinks.
But cakes, chocolate, cookies, ice-cream and fruit yoghurt are a really issue for me.
What worked for me was to remove an item until I didn’t crave it anymore instead of going completely cold turkey.
So for example - I used to like sugar in my coffee. I cut that out, until I didn’t crave it anymore. And then moved on to another item. Rise, repeat. Eventually your taste buds adapt and you’ll cut out a lot of things automatically because you just don’t crave sweets anymore.
There’s no one size fits all because some people go cold Turkey and it works. Others go cold Turkey and develop disordered eating and binge eating disorders. I think your best bet is currently tracking how much you consume, also check if you have triggers that make you want sugar, also check if you’re eating enough essential macronutrients like protein and complex carbs before you start consuming the desserts . You may be under-eating the important things.
Find sugarfree alternatives. This is how I was able to wean off of them. I love chocolate & candy. There are sugarfree cakes, chocolates, candies, ice-creams, and with yogurt you can get sugarfree yogurt and then add fruit to it or add something like honey.
Sure, those things still aren’t healthy. But they’re healthier. And the most important thing, is they aren’t as addictive as sugar. Then, you will slowly have less & less cravings for it, and when you do eat it, you probably won’t feel the need to eat as much.
At least, that has been my experience.
At first, I tried just going from cakes and candy straight to vegetables and fruits. It just wasn’t realistic for me. Replacing things with sugarfree alternatives has allowed me to slowly incorporate more and more healthy food in my diet while at the same time, having less & less sugar addiction, and less taste for sweet foods.
Now I’m at the point where I’ll still occassionally get sugarfree cookies or candy when the mood strikes, but for the most part I can just eat raisins or berries or an apple and feel satisfied with that.
Also, over time I noticed that my teeth aren’t sensitive anymore, I feel more energetic throughout the day, and I have less stomach aches, so those positive benefits help keep me from going back sugar.
Good luck!! Please be patient and kind to yourself. You can do it!
My strategy was to always steer clear of them. If living on your own, don’t have them in your place. If not on your own or sharing your place, avoid the area they are kept in.
Someone pointed out on another post that If sweets are going to stay in your place (from another person), discuss the possibility of them storing them in a particular cabinet or drawer that you can avoid like the plague.
It’s going to take a lot of will power, but you can do it.
it’s hard AF, and took a long time for me. but honestly like smoking you just have to quit cold turkey. do it for a day. then try a week. then see if you can go 30 days. the cravings diminish slowly especially if your sweet cravings are linked to stress. but eat sweets less frequently and put more and more days between “cheats”. but be careful because sugar is EVERYWHERE. don’t fall into the trap of seeking “healthy” sugars. there’s no such thing…okay whole fruit isn’t bad. but honestly after a while things you used to love will taste too sweet. and and you start to feel sick after eating that crap. i recently had some vegan cookies i loved two years ago when i ate sweets regularly. and almost immediately afterward i regretted it. these days, a pitted date with almond butter is plenty to satisfy my sweet tooth.
if you’re really interested: read “sugar blues”. that sh*t is poison!
For me, it was cold turkey for a week or two that worked. I ate bananas when craving chocolate and toast w butter and honey when craving baked goods. Eventually didn’t have the cravings. I once fell off the wagon w a snickers bar and REALLY craved chocolate for about a week after! Made me realize the more processed/commercialized the sweet, the more addictive it is. The corporate junk food companies truly know how to formulate for addiction😈
I had to stop cravings. And what helped is keeping net carbs under 20g daily, or I’d crave sweets.Also, if I let myself get anemic I crave sugar. So, iron pills after some bloodwork from my doctor. Im blowed away what a difference it made in cravings.
From my experience it takes about 3 days of going cold turkey - cutting out sugar and wheat and alcohol - until your gut microbiome resets itself and the sugar craving bacteria die off/start to exert less control on your mind. These 3 days are really hard. Like really hard lol. It is interesting to notice how physically dependent and addicted we have become to sugar. But it is only 3 days. You can do anything for 3 days. And then you are free.
Keto done right, is a great way to go about kicking the sugar addiction. As in, eat meats and fats, and avoid all keto “snacks”. You have to retrain your body to not have such a high dopamine response to sugar, and the only way to do that is to not eat it. You should also try to think about why you’re addicted to sugar. Was there past trauma, does it make you feel better (briefly), when do you want it most (stressed, tired, sad, angry)? I highly recommend watching Andrew Huberman’s podcast on YouTube about Dopamine. Also anything by Anna Lembke. I think it’s easier to break an addiction/habit when you learn why you’re body responds in the way it does. It’s fascinating. And it’s not “your fault.” Good luck!
what worked for me…i started with a target of 10g of added sugar per day. Eventually i would eat dates or peanut butter for dessert and treat myself once a week to something sugary.
lately i’ve been eating some keto desserts but im not crazy about the aftertaste in the sugar alternatives
Set a strict meal plan for a week that meets your calories requirements.. make yourself full enough that you don’t even desire little snacks that aren’t part of your plan.. longer you do it for the less you will crave sugary crap
Make your own.
You can make a cake out of oat flour, chickpea flour, almond flour, etc. and use healthy ingredients or whole foods like eggs, etc. Plenty of recipes if you google online.
Make cookies out of oats with adding like things such as raw honey, agave nectar, maple syrup, stevia leaf extract, etc.
For ice cream, blend some of your fav fruits and use other raw or natural ingredients. Plenty of healthy recipes for ice cream online using a blender.
For yoghurt, buy it plain and add either natural sweeteners (honey, agave, etc.) or cinnamon, etc. There are some yoghurt brands that have natural flavors like vanilla or chocolate, just read back labeling.
Remove everything with sugar from your environment. Out of sight, out of mind. Eat more protein to help with satiety. If you cave and eat something with lots of sugar occasionally, eat some lean protein afterwards.
I’m tapering off on sugar. The only sugar during the day is two cups of sweet tea. I try not to eat sweets unless holidays or birthday anyhow. But during my last pregnancy I was eating sugar like crazy. I would eat at least 5 hersheys cookies and cream bars a night
Strategies for kicking a Junk food addiction
I fixed it… as all the foods you listed are a refined mix of sugar and fat (fat usually being the majority of calories). And my tips for kicking them are along the lines of knowing the problem is not addiction to sugar; and that sugar not a problem… The addictive feeling is from the body’s desire for carbs, because that’s natural. The solution is to give your body enough of the Natural carbs. I finally got off junk food 8 years ago, and I did it by satisfying my body’s craving for more carbs, less fat, and the vitamins that go with the best carb.
It’s interesting that society got us to think of junk food as sugar-based, instead of fat. And we’re in this trend where diet teachers are putting blame for everything on sugar, and taking the blame off fat. These are guru’s on the net & TV, and they’re interpreting the science to this marketing trend. But the real science hasn’t changed.
For me, it’s the combination of eating more fibrous things to feel more satiated throughout the day, drinking a full glass of water every time I do have a serious craving, and not sweating eating a sweet thing every other day or two.
If you can go a week or two without it you won’t want to keep eating it after. You will feel a lot better when you don’t have it and feel like garbage if you try to eat it again. At least that’s how it was for me. Good luck
You honestly don’t want to make yourself miserable doing it, its not any fun that way and why be sad when food is supposed to be at least somewhat enjoyable. Try cut down in small amounts, like even half a tsp of sugar at a time. It took me weeks to cut back on sugar as I would get severe cravings too but slowly cutting down on it to the point its barely noticeable seemed to work for me. I’d get severe headaches when I first started cutting back on sugar but I’m a lot better now. Barely any sugar in what I eat now and I never get headaches anymore! Fruits and even some veg will begin to taste more sweet once you’ve cut back on the excess sugars 😄
Intermittent fasting really helped me. I eat from 6am-3pm most days with a focus on eating real food. The first day is hard, but the next day It seemed to get rid of all my cravings to murder for a cookie.
Chromnium poliminate helped me and helps me now. Yeah, if you aren’t controlling yourself that’s even worse, but if you just feel strong cravings. Few pills of this mineral removes any cravings for sweets.
I have a hard time controlling my sugar cravings too, so you have my sympathies! One trick from a nutritionist that helped me is to eat a piece of hearty, whole grain toast with butter when the cake and ice cream cravings hit. I was very skeptical at first, but something about the carbs and fat working their magic together really satisfies that craving
I do this every Jan 1 after gorging for 4 months. Here’s how it works:
Remove all sugary stuff from the house.
Don’t buy any more.
Make sure to eat healthy food on a program.
Suffer for 1-2 weeks and don’t give in.
Cravings largely subside, continue ignoring the residuals.
There’s has been plenty of studies showing that sugar is more addictive than cocaine, so the habit will not be easily kicked. Slowly tapering off worked out for me. I kept track of everything that I ate, and I mean everything, when removing sugar with my fitness pal and slowly removed small amounts of sugar every week or two.
In order to quit the addiction the reality is that you need to accept is that this is an addiction, no different than being addicted to gambling or alcohol. Its more insidious than those in many ways due to how much more prevalent and acceptable in our society sugar is. It is possible to “use” sugar in an acceptable fashion, just like it is possible to use other drugs like alcohol in an acceptable fashion, it is simply that once you are addicted to it is very hard to break that addiction. If it is effecting your life, such as causing you to be overweight, or tired and irritable, you may want to consider breaking your sugar addiction. It will not be easy. If you want to quit sugar, you have to observe everything you put in your body to determine if it has sugar.
There are lots of free resources for addicts on the internet for kicking other types of substances. Those resources apply to sugar too. You could use the equivalent of a 12 step program, except instead of joining NA you could join the keto reddit.
Remember that anything with sugar in it will sustain your addiction. Fruit, milk, bread, cereal, sweet vegetables like carrots, starchy vegetables like potatoes, alcohol. All of them will serve as a substitute for your addiction until you break the addiction. I highly recommend pursuing keto for 6 weeks minimum so you can see how your body fares without sugar. It will be an eye opening experience. My personal macro ratio for ketosis is 70% fat, 25% protein, and 5% carbohydrates, but I recommend you do your own research and choose what is best for you. I use small servings of blueberries, spinach, lettuce, and broccoli as my carb sources.
In my life I have been addicted to benzos, alcohol, marijuana, nicotine, caffeine, and sugar. Sugar is the hardest of those to kick. I used to weigh 285 pounds and now I weigh 160 pounds. There is no way I could have done that without kicking my addiction to sugar. Now I can consume sugary treats occasionally and quickly kick the habit again, and even regularly have fruit and grains in my diet, but it required a very long period of abstinence to break the association in my brain. I had to learn what it was like to be addicted and not addicted to sugar. I have to treat it like an addiction each time I have a cookie, an apple, or a piece of cake though, I have to recognize that this is the same thing as having a drink, a possible road down a slippery slope back into addiction. Sometimes I do slip back, relapse, and have to fight my way back. I go back to keto regularly to make this happen.
To quit an addiction your lifestyle is what has to change. You can potentially go back to occasionally casually enjoying a sweet, so long as you have in your toolbox the ability to kick the addiction once you are back on it.
Don’t try to moderate. Blood sugar rollercoaster is vicious. Cut out all processed food entirely for a month, get it out of your house. Optimize protein (1g per lb of optimal bodyweight), eat to satiety produce and low glycemic fruit. Make sure electrolytes and salt are on point. LMNT makes a good electrolyte product.
Stop eating sugary foods and eat more healthy carbs.
Worked for me to not feel hungry cos of the sugar addiction.
Some healthy carbs can make u feel full.
Eat full so u won’t feel hungry cos of the sugar addiction.
I struggle with the same, I can share with u my changes for yoghurt if u like it with fruits. Only use Greek original or coconut, and add the fruits using homemade jam or your fav supermarket jam ( taking into account the sugar count in them) I hope it helps it tastes yummy with blueberry jam
Don’t go all out. Start giving up certain things that have added sugar. I have a big sweet tooth and used to kill chocolates. That is my biggest weakness. One day I started to think the phrase “I just don’t eat chocolate” and I went for a couple of months without eating any. Normally I would eat a few fun sized pieces a week. I did this experiment through Christmas with no problems. Have I eaten chocolate since then? Yes, but it was a let down. I wasn’t like omg I need to eat 50 pieces. I had some and was like meh . It was candy I normally love too. I still eat sweet stuff like cinnamon rolls or other sweet things like that, but it’s on such a rare occasion.
So just start small and work your way up.
Don’t keep it in your domicile, make it a treat by going out for it.
I stopped keeping ice cream in the home and now I may go get it once a month. It’s just not here so it’s not something I think about. I also got a fruit basket to snack on. If you replace your nasty snacks that are yummy but nutritious with “yummy” fruits and veggies, you’ll find you weren’t actually hungry. Just bored and wanted a treat.
I love my fruit basket, I’ll eat like 2 piece of fruit per day and now my breakfast is fruit and yogurt most days. That’s good enough for my sweet tooth.
Usually when I’m craving a lot of anything, it means I’m not fueling myself with balanced meals. I make sure I’m getting protein, carbs, fats, and fiber in every meal so I’m satiated and satisfied. It’s not as hard as it sounds.
I also typically eat something sweet with every meal whether that’s fruit, a piece of chocolate, or a small slice of cake. This curves my craving and makes them less of a “reward” or “treat”. When I treat them as a treat I find it’s so much easier to binge them. But when I group them with my other meals it just feels like a cap to end the meal and it satisfies my sweet tooth.
I’m a big believer of not cutting things out unless completely necessary. It’s all about balance. If you want to have a bowl of ice cream at the end of the night I would just try adding in more nutrient dense toppings such as nuts (healthy fats and protein) or fruit (good source of fiber). This should be more satiating and won’t spike your insulin as much.
No right answer and this is just what works for me but maybe it’ll help! Good luck.
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I did the Whole 30 which has you take sugar out for a month. It helped me see how addicted I was to it! I eliminated sugar since then (3 years) and only have it in limited amounts or else it gives me headaches. It’s a pretty drastic elimination diet but it does help you figure out what causes you inflammation, etc.
Find a few low carb snacks that you like and avoid all the carb foods like the plague. When I made significant weight loss progress I aimed for 50 Net Carbs per day, (take the total number of carbs that a food had as subtract the amount of fiber that food contained.) I used MyFitnessPal and monitored everything.
My GF is from Colombia and I’m Italian-American so avoiding carbs was tough at first. Really plan you week and know what your go to snack is going to be. For me I love nuts so I used a small tupperware that I knew exactly how many calories of nuts I was eating when I went to snack. I also enjoyed the protein shake, Isopure which is very tasty and very low carb, so this became my second go to snack. My third go to snack was 85% dark chocolate from Aldi’s, but beware some brands have added sugar.
I can’t call it a snack but always be drinking water. I was told to aim for 50% of my body weight in ounces, so at 200 pounds that would be 100 ounces of water.
Hope this helps!
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P.S. One and only One cheat meal per week, appetizer, drinks, entree and dessert. Believe me you’ll love that meal.
I always crave a sweet after a meal. What works for me is I brush my teeth instead of eating the sweet. I don’t feel like eating anything after I brush my teeth. If I really want to feel like I’ve had a dessert I replace it with a sweet, herbal tea (Good Earth Sweet & Spicy original herbal tea is REALLY sweet).
I’ve tried drinking more water and reducing the sugar slowly. I used to drink sweet coffee, but slowly reduced the amount to only using half and half now! It’s really all mentally too, but remember it’s always about a good balanced diet:)
I had the same problem what worked for me is healthy substitutes. I make Black Bean protein brownies with sugar free chocolate chips and Protein ice cream with sugar free jello and it makes so much for only like 400 calories you won’t be able to finish it I promise. I feel like its torture getting rid of cakes and ice cream so the best solution is to make them healthy.
Sugar cravings are often a result of being addicted to the amount of insulin that floods your body following eating the sugar. If you’re anything like me and your sugar addiction is tied to being an emotional one, I’d recommend finding some positive tools you can use and turn to when those emotional sugar cravings appear.
Pro tip I recently picked up, when you crave sugar, that is often the body’s way of indicating it’s dehydrated. This goes back to caveman days, cavemen didn’t have cakes and cookies to reach for, craving something sweet let them towards fruit, which is a high source of water :) understanding what cravings mean to me, has significantly shifted how I look at and deal with them.
Your awareness about wanting to change this, is a significant step in the right direction and I applaud you massively!! You’ve got this!!!
Find healthy alternatives. I agree that quitting cold turkey is really hard and sometimes impossible for some people. Find healthy versions or healthier version. Cake without frosting/filling. Homemade cake instead of store bought. Same with cookies. Cookies can be made from a variety of healthy things. While you’re still getting sugar, it’s going to be better for you. I had a snacking problem for awhile and I remedied it with gum. I chewed gum anytime I felt like snacking. I wasn’t hungry, just wanted to move my mouth. Maybe try getting gum and chewing a piece whenever you feel a craving?
The Body Reset Diet helped me beat my sugar addiction of 25 years… in 2 weeks. It’s got a lot of fruit (so lots of sugar) but at least it’s natural sugar. After I completed the diet I expected to crave sugar again but no, the results have stayed
I think it’s important that you tell yourself you don’t have to completely give up sugar forever. To me the thought of never eating sugar again can made me give in to temptation. Think about how you’ve been eating sugar maybe your entire life. You only have to give it up for a few months to get rid of the addiction and live a better life. That’s a very small percentage of your life that you have to give up sugar for and once you get rid of that urge to eat sugar every day you can ease into eating a little here and there. But unfortunately at least in my experience every time I give in to cravings involving sugar I will think about eating sugary snacks for the next couple of days. Maybe it’s just the effect sugar has after being addicted to it for so long. I can’t say the addiction will 100% disappear but it can definitely get better. I also started thinking about how added sugars really don’t provide any benefit to my body. Yeah they make you feel good but how long does that feeling last? It only lasts while it’s in your mouth and just seconds after you swallow that last bite it’s all gone and the only thing you are left with is craving more sugar and also disappointment that you were not able to resist the temptation. Think about how sugar really is just your brain wanting to feel good it’s not actually you who wants it. Call me crazy but I started telling myself “No I know this is just my brain that wants the dopamine. I don’t need the sugar. My thoughts do not control me. I control my thoughts. I decide what I eat and what I don’t eat. This craving is only happening because I am bored or I am starting to feel hungry. Once I eat something nutritious and I am full the craving will go away” Separate yourself from your thoughts. Let them go crazy in your head just don’t act on them. Treat those thoughts like just something really annoying that you can easily ignore.
What worked for me was making sure there aren’t any stock of what I would consider “junk” food around the house.
Then once a week, I’d have a cheat day. There are cheat days when I would eat until I’d be sick of junk food. There are cheat days where I wouldn’t feel like eating a lot.
Another thing that helped was, during the week, when I would have cravings for let’s say, ice cream, I’d write it in a notebook then would allow myself that indulgence during my cheat day.
I think at some point, I stopped craving sugary food ‘cause I was just feeling better during the week. Like I’d have a lot of energy which was new to me.
It’s hard - but once you get there, you have to be 100%. 99% is hard, but 100% is much easier.
One thing that helped me was a rubber band around the wrist. When I wanted something sweet, I snapped that rubber band and it hurt, I think eventually my mind associated the thought of sugar with pain. Simple trick, and it worked for me.
Do it gradually, addiction is not smth you can take and drop immediately. You are used to getting endorphins from them, cravings are going to be intense, but it’s normal. Make sure you go for the foods that will contain plenty of micronutrients, make sure protein intake is sufficient, especially if you are over 45y/o.. Wish you strength, you can do it 😃👊
Plain Greek yogurt with a half tsp of jam (sugar free) is much lighter than regular yogurt. I like granola with it too
Only buy 1 sweet thing for the week and ration it. Split your serving in half
Track your calories on an app so you see how damaging those sweets are, and how easy it is to still have what you want with substitutions and smaller portions. 2 cookies are ok, not 10.
Whole fruit, not dessert fruit or juice. Whole fruit has fiber that tells you you’re full and doesn’t spike your insulin. Fruit pies and juice have high fructose corn syrup that floods your liver and confuses your pancreas, and feeds diabetes.
Dark chocolate, not milk chocolate. Read the labels, if it says anything other than cacao, it’s not chocolate, it’s high fructose corn syrup and chemical flavoring.
Buy 1 REAL dark chocolate bar (it will be more expensive than a snickers) and eat 1 or 2 squares at a time. It will be more satisfying to have real chocolate than the empty calories of cheap desserts. Notice I said INSTEAD OF, not in addition. Look for brands like Lindt and Godiva.
Use dark chocolat sugarless powdered cocoa in your coffee. It’s in the baking section, not with the coffee. Should have 0 calories. You will need to add sugar and milk, it’s bitter on its own, but it’ll make a great dark chocolate mocha. It makes yogurt taste like chocolate pie.
There’s a concept in music called a diminuendo. The idea is that, gradually, you become softer and softer over time. The result on the small scale going from note to note, beat to beat, may be imperceptible, but eventually what was louder has now become quieter. You can even diminuendo to niente, which is silence.
I’m seeing a lot of “cold turkey” talk, which I’ve seen many times leading to people summoning all of their willpower to try and overcome it in a burst. That, however, is a big cost in daily willpower—which is finite—over many days, and honestly strong people have failed. It’s tough when you’re used to something that chemically rewarding. Crash diets, difficult exercise regimens, etc. often fail because people try to do too much too fast.
I suggest a different option: incrementalism. Real change often requires patience and consistency, so dial back your sugar over tim. Go to one sweet thing a day but with really satisfying (and hopefully mostly healthy) meals. Then one every few days. Then one a week. By that point, a little sugar likely isn’t a big deal in the broader context of your weekly diet.
I used to love fruit yogurt, and now I like my new yogurt concoction even more, in fact, I eat it every weekday. I mix one contain of nonfat plain greek yogurt with a tablespoon of raw wildflower honey and toss in some shelled salted pistachios. I cannot tell you how delicious it is, and it satisfies me for hours before I’m hungry for lunch.
I just want to say that you shouldn’t feel bad about yourself for being addicted to sugar. Food companies add sugar to literally everything so a sugar addiction is really hard to avoid.
I am currently also trying to get off sugar, which is how I started learning just how many of the foods I eat have added sugar in them! The first step I am taking is to cut out MOST processed food and sweets, but not all. I am replacing sweets and processed foods with things that are naturally sweet, such as fruit and certain veggies (bell peppers and corn are good examples). When I really want sweets and the fruits/veggies won’t cut it, I’m going for something with lower sugar than I would normally go for (like organic dark chocolate or a bowl of sweetened oatmeal). Of course eventually I’d like to get off of things like that too, but for now I have accepted that going cold turkey will just result in failure for me, so allowing small breaks is the best option for now.
I took a course called 7 day break up with sugar and it helped me immensely it’s on an app called Mindvalley. The creator Eric Edmeades is amazing because he digs down into the psychology surrounding sugar addiction and makes it easier.
Work on modifying your microbiome via a diet that encourages healthy bacterial and fungal strains to grow.
The neurotransmitters produced by your existing gut flora are likely the source of your cravings.
Fermented and prebiotic foods are key.
For me personally, no gradual strategy worked. I had to go cold turkey until I stopped getting cravings.
I also started making almond flour cupcakes sweetened with erythritol and stevia which worked pretty well.
Wait just a second. You might not need to kick anything at all. I, like you, have a massive sweet tooth, but I’ve learned to completely circumvent the associated health risks by just using stevia and allulose instead. I haven’t touched a white sugar in crystal in like over a year. Every yogurt I have, every oatmeal I have, and every homemade sweet I have — all have a sugar substitute. And despite all my research looking into it (and believe me I’ve done my due diligence), there’s zero evidence at all that any of them contribute to health risks beyond possible digestive issues (at least for ones like stevia and erythritol and allulose. Sucralose and saccharin etc I never have. And aspartame rarely). I don’t know what I’d do if I had to give up sweet foods, but thankfully I don’t have to because we live in times where we can get sweet taste without sucrose/fructose itself.
Systematic decline, just for example, say you eat 100g a sugar a day, start by cutting it to 90g, do that for 3 consecutive days, then go for 80g another 3 days, so and so forth until you reach you target daily sugar intake. You will obviously have to also replace processed sugars with natural ones, it may not be the same kick as a pop tart but opt for a banana. Obviously consult with a nutritionist and see what’s right for you, but going from 100 to 0 ain’t gonna work.
Eat more protein and more often. Drink more water. Get enough sleep.
Avoiding stress response when changing a habit is key. Lack of sleep will cause you to fail.
If you fill up on the other macros (protein/fat/carbs) then you will be less likely to crave any food including sugar.
Last prepare for failure. Find a low carb option that still tastes sweet that you can have on hand for when you just can’t hold out. Prevents you from going for a cookie if you have a medium carb snack waiting. Plenty of low carb options. Look up keto deserts!
Also, Fairlife Salted Caramel Protein drink with 2 grams of sugar and 30 grams of protein. There’s lots of flavors that I rotate through but I drink several of these a day and they cover my sugar cravings.
Weirdly, my sugar cravings diminished after I started regularly drinking coconut water. I have no idea why, but I have read that coconut water is good for beneficial gut bacteria, so maybe that had something to do with it? I still eat sweets here and there, but the cravings don’t feel all-consuming like they used to.
Something that’s worked well for me - and I recognize this is a narrow solution - when you get sugar cravings, either drink something very bitter (coffee or espresso) or something super sour (lemon juice, whiskey sour). I found that extremes in tastes act as a counter balance to sugar cravings. It totally eliminates my sugar drive. Try it & see if it works for you.
eat food with alot of fiber, and have regular meals. drink water, take chromium supplement, move more, if you feel that you get cravings than eat some fruit.dont have high sugar things in your home, don’t beat yourself up if you relapse.check if you have any deficiency