Chocolate craving and no self control

[CatMum96]

How do you get over the chocolate craving??

I've been at SW 5 months and lost 1.5 stone in total. The first stone came off in 2 months. The next 7lb took 3 months to shift!

I just cannot get over chocolate. I crave it to the point I'm a miserable b!tch and then I binge on it. I've tried the skinny whip or portioning it out but it doesn't work! I Don't have anyone that could hide the rest of the packet either!

Are there any chocolate-like healthy substitutes?

Get off the SW merry go round and you can eat chocolate and lose weight. It's not a sin, you just have to include it in your calorie intake

If you can face it do the long hard slog towards dark chocolate. As you reduce the amount of sweet stuff you eat, your desire for it decreases too.

I have a small piece a day but will have lots of fruit, hard boiled eggs as alternatives. Slimming world works for me although I mainly use it to maintain as lost the weight already so just keeping it off now.

If you want chocolate then eat it. You're binging because your SW mindset is telling you it's bad. You'll control your intake if you just let yourself enjoy it.

SW is vile. Sorry.

I am the same OP, no self control whether SW or not, the only thing that helped me was doing low carb bootcamp on here, once I stopped eating carbs and sugars in fruit I craved sugar a whole lot less (and I am a proper chocoholic!)

Switch to 90% or 80% chocolate from Lidl

tbey put the sugar and additives in to make you crave it - eat the real stuff one square each day

Sounds like you live on your own? If so just don't buy it!

I went from eating it daily to only eating it on a Sunday, would recommend. I really savour it now! Tastes much better

You are as bad as me. I ate my son's advent calendar when he was in school today and feel so bad had to go to the supermarket to find the same one.

Options hot chocolate sachet mixed into quark. For me it was enough to take the edge off the craving of eating a chocolate bar

Have you tried the low carb days (not sure what they call them now at sw), I wonder if you’ll get the same cravings? I found sw impossible to lose weight, the highs and lows of sugar levels and cravings. I cannot eat artificial sugar because of the same effects (body expects sugar, releases insulin) buggering up hormone levels.

Omg lol are you my mum. She is the same. She used to eat half the Easter egg and put the rest back in the wrapper and say factory fault.

I've been having a cheat chocolate cake, that might help? Whipped up some bananas with eggs, added some cocoa powder and some baking powder. Bake in the oven. The chocolate flavour is enough to satisfy my chocolate cravings. The points are low (weight watchers - most of this is zero points ). I sometimes add Stevia if I want it sweeter.

I also tried monkfruit icing sugar mixed with cocoa to make an icing but that was a bit gritty.

I'm going to try to make some lemon curd using cornflour instead of butter and stevia sugar replacement and see how it turns out. Saw 2 different recipes - 1 swapping the butter for cornflour and the other using stevia and thought I'd try to combine. Probably won't have much of a shelf life but might give me the flavour hit.

Eat it out of the freezer. Then you can't eat it fast and the chocolate taste lingers for much longer. So you might be able to control your binging better

@MikeRafone I agree with this, been eating one or two squares of 85% dark chocolate per day since March, it’s an intense chocolate hit that keeps me from having any more. In fact I’m right off galaxy and Cadbury. Tastes far too sweet and artificial now and I used to be a bit addicted to galaxy. I’ve lost nearly two stone now too

Alternatives to chocolate don’t cut it when you want chocolate, so buy chocolate - all standard size bars are less than a day’s syns.

Just buy one bar though, don’t buy multipacks or big things you need to portion out if it’s a food you struggle to stop eating, just make sure you’ve only got a sensible amount there to start with.

I’ve been eating chocolate most days through losing weight on SW. Half a bar of Lindt dark chocolate with a hint of whatever comes under 15 syns. I don’t buy multi packs of chocolate as I’d eat it all. Same for hifi bars.

An ex colleague had hypnosis which cured her completely. She now thinks it's disgusting.

I only like the 85% stuff now and one square is enough.

I have had hypnotherapy for my anxiety with amazing results. Hypnotherapy is no a quack medicine. It's been recognised by the British Medical Association since 1955