Long term craving loss

[dthomps]

Can I ever expect to be able to tolerate small amounts of sweet tastes without having horrible cravings for more later in the day?

I have really limited my fake sugar or splenda intake, because I have noticed that I crave sweets with very little splenda intake. If I have more than one or two packets of splenda in my coffee in the morning, by 3 p.m. I am desperate for something sweet.

Anyway, it's been three weeks, and yesterday I thought I could have just one cream cheese and sugar mint. That one mint turned into at least 6. And today I'm craving something sweet again.

After a long enough period on this WOE, will I be able to have just one?

[Georgiana]

Welcome to the cephalic responders team. Here's a thread for you: http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...-response.html (Addicted to Sweets? The Cephalic Phase Insulin Response)

You could try other sweeteners and see which you can tolerate, if any. I tried pretty much anything other than sugar alcohols like xylithol and they just don't agree with me. Stevia, in tiny amounts, is usually okay, but I avoid that one too (didn't have any in months).

The thing is, after you stop having sweeteners for a while, your taste buds will change and things like red peppers will taste sweet. Same thing with berries and other foods. They won't taste so sweet that you get cravings from them, just sweet enough so that you don't need to use artificial sweeteners.

[chinadoll]

Georgiana is right. It is best to retrain your tastes first before adding sweets back into your daily foods.