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hey i am on a diet and have been doing fine but im very big on dessert. i cut down my normal ice cream at night and insteas of all those calories have something lighter. but now im ready to cut down dessert altogether. any tips? its very difficult as i am used to having something sweet before bed. help if you can thank youu.
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first off, try to have a lot of fruit and veggies in your house, and not junk food, and snacks. Try to drink at least 8 glasses of water a day, and if you get hungry after 7:30pm don't eat or drink. To get off the sweet kick, if you absolutely have to have something sweet, eat an apple, pear, peace, or banana. It will curb your sweet too and be healthy too. Also, exercise,and enjoy life to the fullest. giver19
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I actually have exactly the same problem and as a chocoholic, you can just guess what my downfall was!! It did, in fact, get to the point where I was happily eating 5 bars of chocolate a day.. hence why I am on the diet!
It is always recommended you try to make the switch from high sugar foods like chocolate and ice cream and sweets to fruits. Good combinations are fruit yoghurts (with real fruit), smoothies and fruit salads. A lot of people also swear by frozen grapes, which they claim taste just like boiled sweets.
However, if, like me, you find that the transition from ice cream, chocolate and the like to fruit is a little too much all in one go, there are a couple of other tricks up my sleeve, which have so far worked wonders.
First up, frozen slices of Milky Way or Mars Bar. Deliciously satisfying and because they are frozen, they take longer to eat. Just make sure you walk away from the freezer before you start to eat because it will be all too tempting to go back!!
My absoloute favourite is my latest trick. There is a nearby fancy chocolate shop called Thorntons. (I don't know where you are from but if you are in America, they will have something similar). Chocolates from shops such as these are made without the hydrogenated vegetable oil that makes other chocolates so bad for you and instead they use a lot of cocoa butter. So, now I keep a supply of champagne truffles or other such chocolates in the fridge. I treat myself to just one every night, as long as I have had no other chocolate during the day. They're very rich so I don't need to have anything after that and because I'm not breaking pieces off a bar, it's easy to just take out one at a time.
It is quite hard to get used to cutting sugary foods out of your diet but the most important thing is that it is sometimes okay to give into cravings. The longer you ignore them, the harder it gets and you end up bingeing. Keep a small amount of chocolate with you at all times, so that if the terrible cravings strike, you can have just a tiny bit. As time goes on, you will start to only eat it when you get cravings, rather than out of habit.
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You don't have to totally knock out sweet things, instead make healthy things that taste sweet for example protein pudding.
Cottage cheese
skim milk
favorite flavor protein powder
Jello sugar free, fat free instant pudding
Put everything in a blender and blend until its rich and creamy, there you have a high protein and either a low fat or fat free, depending on how you make it snack that is beneficial to eat before bed for its anti-catabolic slow protein burning properties. So you win two ways, it tastes good and actually helps with your goal.
If you're really hardcore you can swallow 2 teaspoons of straight up olive oil or flax seed oil and that usually kills cravings for something sweet. Not sure if that's quite for you though ;-)
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uh... don't do the celery/asparagus thing. you won't get full. you'll snack eat on junk food in the long run. you need full meals and enough calories to maintain activity.
as for dessert. I am also trying to cut back on desserts. I eat a lot of real fruit bars and frozen v8 splash. tonight I made vegan blueberry muffins out of whole wheat flour and farmer's market blueberries. it's also helpful to eat sweets earlier in the day if you can't cut them back. eating before bed is probably not a good idea. some things cause crazy weird dreams and it's hard to burn calories when you're inactive.
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I agree with what Aaron said, but I have something to add.
Eat celery. It may not taste good, but so what? It takes more calories to digest celery than celery has to begin with. So you lose calories when you eat celery. Same with asparagus. So adding lots of celery/asparagus to your diet will burn off additional calories. Imagine how many calories you'd burn if you replaced whole meals with celery and asparagus!
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