This week I've been craving a lot of chocolate and I gave in...a few times. It was pretty bad. It's also difficult because I'm sick, so I can't work out and that usually keeps me healthy and away from sugary snacks. But I've been eating really healthy and I bought dried mango to eat instead of sweets.
Here are my 3 barriers preventing me from quitting my sugar cravings:
1. My friends LOVE dessert especially yogurt, and I love my friends and therefore I love yogurt as well. It's a social thing, where we get yogurt together to catch up, or we get yogurt after dance. I think the fact that I am consistent in getting sweets every week, my body gets used to it and expects it and craves it.
2. I have cravings because its delicious. I have found that I really enjoy sweets when I am stressed because its like a little break and its soothing. Part is because whenever I get together with friends, we usually have some urgent thing we have to gossip about and its usually about stress in our lives.
3. It's all will-power that I have very little of. That is what I am trying to work on
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I've been sick, too, which has kept me from exercising as well, so that makes me feel like a bump on a log. I *totally* do the same thing with getting into the habit of eating sweets when stressed. It sounds like you're aware of it, though, which could help you keep from doing it (in theory). Did you find it easier to avoid sweets after you hadn't eaten them for two weeks? I heard that cravings (even for cigarettes) were supposed to go away after 14 days.
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