how to cure sweets addiction?

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Permalink Reply by Barbo on November 18, 2011 at 7:37am

If you crave sweets, than you haven't eat enough fruit! Try to eat 10 banana for breakfast, 30 dates for lunch, and I will garantee you won't even think about chocolate! :)

Permalink Reply by Eun on November 18, 2011 at 8:23am

Thanks Barbo. What about prunes? They are as sweet and calorie-rich as date I guess. Prunes do the same effect?

Permalink Reply by Mango Meg on November 23, 2011 at 8:34pm

Good question. I'd like to know the answer as well.

Permalink Reply by Nicolette Barnes on November 18, 2011 at 8:30am

I find that when I crave sweets, bananas are really helpful.  I think that any dried fruits would have the same effect as the dates. I actually find dates to be much less sweet than things like prunes and dried apricots. I make lots of banana ice cream. 

Permalink Reply by Bebe M on November 18, 2011 at 10:41am

I agree that if you are eating enough fruit you will not crave other sweets. I used to have a terrible sweet tooth and now I never even want a chocolate or cookie or ice cream. I love all the healthy options I have everyday for sweets with fruit, like banana ice cream, mango and other fruit pudding, dates, smoothies, etc etc etc. I also couldn't eat too much sweets before cause of candida. Now without all the fats and fruit satiating my sweet tooth candida has pretty much gone by the wayside. It has been 3 1/2 months on 811. Oh, and I tasted some dried fruit the other day just for kicks and it tasted awful to me. Just rubbery and not very sweet or juicy.

Permalink Reply by Eun on November 18, 2011 at 9:29pm

Hopefully one day I get there, too! Must be really great to lose obsession over sweets :)

Permalink Reply by Bebe M on November 19, 2011 at 2:27am

Yes, it is fantastic to have lost that obsession!  Stick with and you will too. Dates and bananas are a lot of help if I am on the road for a few hours  and get hungry.

Permalink Reply by adaca on November 25, 2011 at 10:11pm

I also have always experienced cravings for chocolate and sweets, but it's four months now in the LFRV and: chocolate stays in its package, forgot!

Yes bananas and dates are optimum sugar sources and easy to carry also for me, but in this season my #1 fruit is Persimmons! 2-3 persimmons for breakfast give me some 50% of needed carbs for the day, plus over 100% iron which gets absorbed by the body thanks to the almost 500% Vitamin C they also provide!

Permalink Reply by Ruta Vaitiekute on November 19, 2011 at 8:15pm

I also wonder if you can eat raisins on LFRW diet? 

Permalink Reply by Chris on November 23, 2011 at 5:24pm

The more fresh variety of fruit you incorporate, the less cravings one has for refined sugar/desserts. Acai juice also tastes like chocolate. Have you tried black sapote fruit?

Permalink Reply by anabea on November 24, 2011 at 11:11pm

what is a dateorade?

 

Permalink Reply by adaca on November 25, 2011 at 10:04pm

DateOrade = blend your dates (amount for a day), then start adding water into the blender until you reach your desired thickness. Put into a bottle then just sip it through the day!