ya know, most people have a sweet tooth.
i have a mouth full of sweet teeth!
i am a candy whore!!! i have always loved candy. ahh...the tasty jujy fruits, the chewy dots, the wonderful twizzler, the rainbow delight of skittles, the original fruit love called starburts, the jolly jelly bean.
i love them all. this is why i need to lose 10 more pounds...lol. candy is my downfall. i'm not much of a chocolate girl (except for those orgasmic truffles), but i could seriously stick my face in a vat of sour patch kids and not come up until every last sugar granuale is gone.
so if you are a candy whore too, hopefully these lil pointers will help ya out.
*miniature is the way to go!!! you get to curb the craving and eating a small bag and finishing it is a lot better than finishing a whole friggin' huge bag of m&ms.
*freeze your miniature candy bars. that way when you eat them, it takes a lil bit longer to eat and you feel like you ate more.
*the above also applies to gummy worms!
*3 musketeers and york peppermint patties are the way to go when you are wanting something chocolate-y.
*jolly ranchers!!! seriously after you suck on a cherry jolly rancher, usually that sweet tooth craving is gone.
*sugar free, fat free jello instant pudding! can you say yum. i usually whip some up, add a lil bit of fat free coolwhip to it, and voila, a sweet treat!
*reduced fat vanilla wafers and graham crackers.
*skinny cows. OH.MY.GOD!!! you guys seriously have to try these. the icecream sandwiches are to die for and you never woulda thought that they were like 97% fat free. they have em at walmart (and i think winn dixie, not sure). seriously though, check your grocer's freezer (do i sound like a commercial?)
*speaking of icecream sandwiches, take a chocolate graham cracker, break it in half, top the half with a lil fat free coolwhip, put another cracker half on it, pop it in the freezer, wait until it hardens, and then eat. this is also good without putting it in the freezer.
*pumpkin fluff
1 can of pumpkin
1 pkg. of vanilla sugar free/fat free pudding
fat free coolwhip
pumpkin pie spice
whip together the pumpkin, pudding, and pumpkin pie spice until mixed. add the coolwhip and put in the fridge for about 10-15 minutes.
eat the yummiest pumpkin mousse you have ever had.
*chocolate milk-i use skim milk with some hershey's chocolate.
*fresh fruit. pick your favorite fruit and eat to your heart's content. i mean seriously, how can you go wrong with fruit.
*chocolate covered strawberries. there really isn't that much chocolate on them.
*homemade fruit smoothies. throw some skim milk, fruit, and some fat free yogurt in a blender.
*the last tip for the night is to enduldge. one thing i have learned on my weightloss journeys is that if you don't allow yourself to have something that you really want, that "thing" is going to call your name all night until you can't take it anymore, and then its 3 o'clock in the a.m. and your sitting on your kitchen floor finishing off a box of ho-hos.
so if you allow yourself to have it the minute you want it and have just a lil bit of it, then the craving will be gone and you will still be on track.
now, what tips do you have to curb that sweet tooth?
i have a mouth full of sweet teeth!
i am a candy whore!!! i have always loved candy. ahh...the tasty jujy fruits, the chewy dots, the wonderful twizzler, the rainbow delight of skittles, the original fruit love called starburts, the jolly jelly bean.
i love them all. this is why i need to lose 10 more pounds...lol. candy is my downfall. i'm not much of a chocolate girl (except for those orgasmic truffles), but i could seriously stick my face in a vat of sour patch kids and not come up until every last sugar granuale is gone.
so if you are a candy whore too, hopefully these lil pointers will help ya out.
*miniature is the way to go!!! you get to curb the craving and eating a small bag and finishing it is a lot better than finishing a whole friggin' huge bag of m&ms.
*freeze your miniature candy bars. that way when you eat them, it takes a lil bit longer to eat and you feel like you ate more.
*the above also applies to gummy worms!
*3 musketeers and york peppermint patties are the way to go when you are wanting something chocolate-y.
*jolly ranchers!!! seriously after you suck on a cherry jolly rancher, usually that sweet tooth craving is gone.
*sugar free, fat free jello instant pudding! can you say yum. i usually whip some up, add a lil bit of fat free coolwhip to it, and voila, a sweet treat!
*reduced fat vanilla wafers and graham crackers.
*skinny cows. OH.MY.GOD!!! you guys seriously have to try these. the icecream sandwiches are to die for and you never woulda thought that they were like 97% fat free. they have em at walmart (and i think winn dixie, not sure). seriously though, check your grocer's freezer (do i sound like a commercial?)
*speaking of icecream sandwiches, take a chocolate graham cracker, break it in half, top the half with a lil fat free coolwhip, put another cracker half on it, pop it in the freezer, wait until it hardens, and then eat. this is also good without putting it in the freezer.
*pumpkin fluff
1 can of pumpkin
1 pkg. of vanilla sugar free/fat free pudding
fat free coolwhip
pumpkin pie spice
whip together the pumpkin, pudding, and pumpkin pie spice until mixed. add the coolwhip and put in the fridge for about 10-15 minutes.
eat the yummiest pumpkin mousse you have ever had.
*chocolate milk-i use skim milk with some hershey's chocolate.
*fresh fruit. pick your favorite fruit and eat to your heart's content. i mean seriously, how can you go wrong with fruit.
*chocolate covered strawberries. there really isn't that much chocolate on them.
*homemade fruit smoothies. throw some skim milk, fruit, and some fat free yogurt in a blender.
*the last tip for the night is to enduldge. one thing i have learned on my weightloss journeys is that if you don't allow yourself to have something that you really want, that "thing" is going to call your name all night until you can't take it anymore, and then its 3 o'clock in the a.m. and your sitting on your kitchen floor finishing off a box of ho-hos.
so if you allow yourself to have it the minute you want it and have just a lil bit of it, then the craving will be gone and you will still be on track.
now, what tips do you have to curb that sweet tooth?
posted by elizabeth at 5:43 PM
3 Comments:
Great ideas! Love the skinny cows, too.
Oh my, I too am a candy whore (see the "runners up" section at the end). I love it. All. Intensely.
This was a fantastic post! I feel like I learned so much. I love all your ideas and I can't wait to use some of them ...
My only tip was going to be the last one that you gave, because I find it to be so very true. Whatever you deny yourself, ends up being your obsession and you binge. So if you just eat enough of sweets to get the taste, you don't feel deprived.
I've also noticed that sweet things have really become that much more of a treat since I don't have it all the time. Same goes for eating out. We'd been eating out like 4 or 5 times a week, but doing it once a week makes it so much more special.
I guess I do have one sort-of tip. I have always hated dark chocolate, but I took a "chocolate class" with an old friend of mine and learned that really good quality dark chocolate is totally different from Hershey's dark crap (AKA bitter wax). I'm not a snob about milk chocolate, although I do like Dove the best out of the OTC brands (ha ha) ... but with dark chocolate it's El Rey or Scharffen Berger, or nothing. When I had gestational diabetes, dark chocolate was the only candy I allowed myself. It was low carb and the anti-oxidants are great.
The calories are still high if you eat too much, but the sugar content is much lower. I'd stick with 61% (semisweet), but if you're brave, get Scharffen Berger 70% (or whatever their low 70's number is). Just DON'T get El Rey 73.4%. It tastes like utter garbage.
antsy about weight in for ya i can't wait to see what you've done...i have yet to step on the scale since surgery...dreading that though...EWWWWW!!!
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