If you’re craving sugar, here are some ways to tame those cravings:
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1. Give a little: Eat a bit of what you’re craving, maybe a small cookie or a fun-size candy bar. Enjoying a little of what you love can help you steer clear of feeling denied. Try to stick to a 150-calorie threshold.
2. Combine foods: If the idea of stopping at a cookie or a baby candy bar seems impossible, you can still fill yourself up and satisfy a sugar craving, too. ‘Try combining a craving food with a healthy one’. For instance; you want chocolate, try dipping a fruit in the chocolate sauce, or even mix almonds with chocolate chips. So, you will satisfy a craving and get healthy nutrients from those good-for-you foods.
3. Go cold turkey: cutting out all simple sugars works for some people. Some people find that going cold turkey helps their cravings diminish after a few days; others find they may still crave sugar but over time are able to retain their taste buds to be satisfied with less.
4. Grab some gum: If you want to avoid giving in to a sugar craving completely, try chewing a stick of gum, Research has shown that gum can reduce sugar cravings.
5. Reach for fruits: keep fruit handy, for when sugar craving hit.
6. Get up and go: When a sugar craving hits, walk away. ‘Take a walk round the block or do something to change the scenery’. To take your mind off the sugar craving.
7. Choose quality over quantity: If you need a sugar splurge, pick a wonderful, decadent sugary food’. But keep it small. ‘Savour every bite – slowly’.
8. Eat regularly: Waiting too long between meals may set you up to choose sugary, fatty foods than cut your hunger. Instead, eating every three to five hours can help keep blood sugar stable and help you ‘avoid irrational eating behaviour’.
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