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This is why you shouldn’t limit what you eat, but rather how much. When you get into the mentality that you can eat anything (just less) it fosters a better mentality and less likelihood of binge eating and guilt
Alternative desserts: Halo Icecream, keto alternative brownies
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Cover banana pieces in dark chocolate and freeze. You can pop one each time you crave dessert!
Yeeeesssss, this sounds great!
You ordered 4 desserts for one person? This sounds like disordered eating. I speak from experience — including bulimia. Explore that honestly.
If it’s truly just wanting something sweet and not disordered… have you tried individually wrapped dark chocolates? A few chocolate-covered strawberries or banana slices? These are my recommendations if you don’t like to cook.
If you do (like cooking), there are so many healthy recipes. Sweet does NOT mean unhealthy. Took me a while to accept that.
This is insightful and I need to think more along this line..
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Are you drinking enough water?
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Craving sweets is often a sign of dehydration so even if you are averaging a gallon maybe try adding some electrolytes (not Gatorade though — IV hydration, coconut water etc. ) to ensure your body is absorbing the water.
In terms of alternatives, get some dried fruit or fresh fruit and have that instead of a brownie or chocolate etc.
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Apples with peanut butter. I also have a major sweet tooth and now use peanut butter as my dessert.
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You can send it my way 😉
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You can find these at Costco. Surprisingly low calories for cookies
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Check this out. I saw this at Target the other day. Supposed to make it so you can’t taste sugar.
https://www.sugarbreak.com
This looks really promising 🤔
Fellow sweet tooth here. I’ve been swapping dessert for a big mug of really good hot tea in the evenings (decaf cinnamon ginger mint for example) and it’s surprisingly satisfying.
I'll give this a try!
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I love [thawed/warmed frozen] blueberries, cool whip, granola in a mug (w/yogurt if hungry). Also optional: cinnamon, caramel, other fruit
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Chew gum
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But why 4 slices at once though?
I was ordering on DD, at the time it didnt make sense to order a single slice. I thought I would eat a slice a day. Didnt end up eating more than a couple of spoons..
I literally am about to save your life. Look up sugarbreak. If you pop one of the tabs to cut sugar cravings right after you eat lunch, you won’t even want dessert. It makes you crave less and it makes the taste different for like half an hour or more
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Refrigerated or frozen grapes (seedless green or red ones) are a good sugar substitute
But sounds like potential ED / unhealthy obsession with food from the guilt / shame from two spoonfuls
Sugar free jello cups 😋 0 calories, nice and cold, many flavors
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Eat more filling stuff like something high in fiber
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Have you thought of moving over to a snacking diet?
You eat small portions of food every 2 hours instead of having 3 big meals a day. I also have a sweet tooth and this curbed it a bit.
The instructions I was given were to have a combination of food types with each snack:
1. Fiber and fat
2. Carbs and fat
3. Protein can be alone because it's dense
4. You can have sugars, but keep in mind they
won't hold you off for 2 hours.
5. You can have as much veggies as you like.
Make sure to follow recommended serving sizes on the boxes. Cereal's serving size is a cup. Bowls are way too big. I was told to eat it out of a cup instead.
(Its OK to have 1 serving of ice cream (fat/sugar) with a healthy carb.)
Feel free to dm if you have any questions.
Chief
It sounds like you have an eating disorder. It’s not healthy to feel guilt around food choices, especially when it’s only a few bites. Switching what you eat may be a quick fix, but it won’t repair the underlying problem. I highly recommend you look into the concept of intuitive eating and find an IE dietitian to work with.