What do you do when you fancy a biscuit / cake / chocolate

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I'm trying to loose weight, and whilst I know an occasional treat is fine, I had some Easter egg yesterday and now I want some more 🙃 arghhhhj

Well it's the weather in part, had a day out planned which has rained off and didn't do my usual walk as had toddler DD and she isn't keen on rainy walks as won't walk in it and hates the rain cover as can't see out.

Having a cup of tea but meh, it's not the same. Salad for lunch and honestly its not the same as chocolate.

I found working out what it was I wanted from the crisps/cake/chocolate/biscuit (Noom worked for me to do this)

If I want crisps I want something savoury and crunchy - carrot sticks work instead. Or those baked not fried ones.

If I want chocolate it is because I want something sweet - seedless grapes or (at this time of year) a nectarine or peach. Or strawberries in summer.

If I want cake it is because I want something sweet that is a treat - so I have a finger of fudge!

I have a coffee with sweetener instead of my tea with no sugar to get that sugary hit

@BeBesideTheSea interesting. I can sometimes sub in a banana, but I still usually want the original craving.

Mini milk ice lollies are very low calorie

Fibre one chocolate popcorn bar! They are delicious and under 100 cal

I’m such a greedy bastard that I’ll usually busy have what I fancy but having recently discovered twinnings biscuit brew, drinking that helps get over the afternoon slump. It honestly does taste biscuity!

Have you tried Aldis sugar free sweets. They are almost as good as worthers originals and are only 7 calories each!! They were a game changer for my dieting.

Sometimes I just want something to dunk in my tea. So I get out 2 fabulous biscuits, put them on a plate and dunk and eat.

for me it is more about thinking about it and stopping the automatic eating, and the “well I have had one so may as well finish the packet”. Not always perfect.

If I want chocolate I'll have chocolate, but make sure it's under 100 calories. Curly Wurlys are good if you put them in the freezer and suck them, or Fudges.

Low calorie hot chocolate drink

Slimming world give you x points a day, could you do something similar? I have lots of fresh fruit and zero fat yoghurt, sometimes chop a Aldi low cal brownie into tiny pieces and add it. A mini magnum is my ultimate treat.

Go and clean your teeth. Unless you are actually faint or shaking with hunger in which case Ryvita and Marmite.

I plan treats into my daily calorie allowance and I only eat 1,200 so you should have enough for it. Mini chocolate bars are good like the multipacks of crunchies or flakes.

In the summer I live on ice poles which have barely any calories or Aldi’s version of twisters which are about 69 calories. 10 calorie jellies are also great for something sweet.

dark chocolate, not Bourneville, I mean the 85% stuff.

dont buy them. Better for all the family

Mix an options hot chocolate sachet into some quark and pretend it's a mousse. That's what I did when I did slimming world

2 apples fill me up and are kind of sweet

If I want a biscuit/cake/chocolate, and I have whatever it is in, most of the time I will have it. The exception is if I want it because I am bored or under stress -- then I won't. If I'm genuinely craving something, one portion is fine.

I don't substitute or divert my attention; it just pushes the craving off for a while unless it is stress or boredom based, in which case it goes on its own.

I have a big glass of plain, fizzy water.

I struggle with the same thing, and have decided that anything 'less' than a biscuit is a win.
You can have a lot of Cheerios and still be less than a biscuit.
A lot of grapes, especially if you freeze them.
An awful lot of apples...
A lot of blueberries/raspberries/blackcurrants in some full fat yogurt.

Eat it. But I don't allow loads in the house and buy them individually packed or decant them and eat in another room because I'm usually too lazy to get up from the sofa to get more crisps if the crisps are not within arms reach.

If what you mean by less is fewer calories then I’m not sure all of this adds up. Google tells me there are 84 kcal in my favourite biscuit - a dark chocolate digestive. But 95 in a medium apple. 67 in 100 g grapes. A 30 g serving of Cheerios has 115 kcal. 68 kcal in natural yogurt, where the berries would probably push it over the biscuit. All of these (even the cereal, which will be fortified) will have more nutrition than the biscuit and the fruit and yogurt is far more satiating than a biscuit. And I could certainly eat more dark chocolate digestives than I could apples. But just on a caloric standpoint, the biscuit is probably the better choice than most of these.

Good research, @toastofthetown!

I think there are several things at play.
I only want about 6 frozen grapes. They are intensely sweet, and somewhat chilly!
I probably have about 15g of Cheerios. You get such a lot, by weight, and I eat them one at a time.
The berries and yogurt again it's a small serving.
All those take me a while to eat, and as you say they are nutritious.

Apples I may just have to skip from now on!

Chocolate biscuits, well, one just leads to half a dozen.

Dark chocolate
but I am quite fat so you probably don’t want to take advice from me

Brush my teeth
Or have some fennel tea