sugar cravings/blues (cross-posted)

[delicata77.livejournal.com]

Does anyone else here deal with intense sugar cravings before or during their periods?

If you do, please tell me how you cope with them and/or you have found something that makes the cravings less intense or vanish.

Comments

[maai.livejournal.com]

OOOhhh yeah. I craev chocolate, sweets, potato chips (which normally, I hate!)!! Unfortunately, my way of dealing with it, is to eat them, LOL.

[delicata77.livejournal.com]

hee!

yeah...I want to stop doing that gradually.

But, thanks! :)

[rockerchick-205.livejournal.com]

I always get huge cravings for chocolate, caffeine, and sugar. What do I do to cope? Buy chocolate vegan ice cream and Pepsi. Not the best way to cope, but it keeps the cravings at bay. :D

[delicata77.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I should buy some vegan ice cream.
That might help :)

Thanks!

[coryrain.livejournal.com]

Same here. I usually just give up and buy myself a candy bar. My dad is diabetic so there's almost never anything sweet in my house. Lucky for me, sucks for him.

Try chewing sugar free gum?

[delicata77.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...someone suggested that in another community.

I will look into it.

[marykae.livejournal.com]

I read somewhere that magnesium helps that.

I would love to site that, but I can't remember where I read it, or if it's true. So I would try googling it. I think I was looking for ways to help the whole PMS process, so you could start there.

[delicata77.livejournal.com]

Interesting idea!

Thanks!

[laululintu.livejournal.com]

I usually get massive chocolate/sugar cravings before and during my period, but small amounts of dark chocolate (a piece or two) is usually enough to satisfy the cravings, without messing up my system.

Hope that helps.

[delicata77.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the idea :)

[skeptictank.livejournal.com]

Chocolate normally gives me headaches so I'll allow myself a little, but I still have to look within myself for some sort of self control so I don't go nuts on a bag of hershey kisses. I find if I buy like, a hershey bar and share it with someone (thus cutting my possibly chocolate binge in half) I can usually refrain from running out and buying another.

However, my biggest craving demon has always been & will aways be carbs. I'd step on a Hershey bar to get to a loaf of Great Harvest bread any day of the week, period or not.

*drool* mmmmmm bread...

[delicata77.livejournal.com]

Bread is good.

[skeptictank.livejournal.com]

Bread, pasta, cereal, crackers, mmmmm carbs

[wordsandink.livejournal.com]

I thought I was the only one. I've eaten a whole loaf of italian bread before. Yay bread!

[solsistr3.livejournal.com]

Oh lord yes. I have recently started stocking my place with soy ice cream, so that I have something a little less detrimental to turn to when I need something sweet and chocolatey.

[solsistr3.livejournal.com]

ooh also, a small piece of superdark (70% or higher) chocolate seems to stave things off. I can make a whole bar last about a week if I keep it hidden in the fridge and just break off a tiny bit after dinner each nite.

[delicata77.livejournal.com]

That is also a great idea.

[delicata77.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I should really stock up on soy ice cream.

[solsistr3.livejournal.com]

I just bought the Soy Dream Green Tea that was really awesome. There was another brand (Soy Something Else..) that I just picked up in Mocha Fudge. They were both really good. The latter totally helped with my chocolate cravings.

[delicata77.livejournal.com]

Good to know!

[char.livejournal.com]

i just try to not keep anything sweet around. it's only a problem when i'm traveling, because stopping for sweets is also a good excuse to stop and rest from driving.
i usually try to drown my cravings with lots of water. or i'll munch of fresh or dried fruit.
you do have to give in every once in a while though. our bodies are sometimes telling us what we need by craving it.

[delicata77.livejournal.com]

Yeah, every once in a while is good...