Calling all girls!!!

I'm doing really well watching my caloric intake.  I even lost a pound the first week.  But now I am premenstrual and want to eat every salty chocolaty treat you can think of.  Any suggestions what can curb this?  I need help.

You should get those 100 calorie snack packs!  They come in oreo, or shortbread cookies, and more sweets.  Also they come in like chex mix, cheez it, and other salty flavors!  They are pretty good, I use those when I am in the mood for something sweet or salty. 

I hope this is helpful!

I love granola bars (peanut butter & chocolate is my fave!) and you can find some that are around 100 calories per bar.  They really kill my cravings when TOM shows up.

Thanks for the tips. I'll be adding them to my shopping list.

I get the same way. What helps me is to exercise. Not that I always want to do it, but I know for a fact in gets rid off and/or lessens those feelings.

Yes, realize that you do not have to satisfy any "cravings" at all. Go exercise or drink a huge glass of water. That is what REALLY helps. Do not pig out on 100 cal packs of fake chocolate whatever. 

I just discovered dessert yogourts. Source has a chocolate cherry yogourt, 35 calories for a 100 ml container, that tastes almost like black forest cake. Eat it slowly and WOW you get lots of chocolate goodness.

Also, you can buy Christie's chocolate wafers (they're like the outsides of an oreo), 25 cals each. Take 4, break 'em into 4 pieces each, and eat slowly. There's your "100-cal pack" right there (much cheaper, too - a three-buck box gives about 10-15 servings instead of 6!)).

Salt: there is probably some low-cal microwave popcorn you can find. I buy PC blue menu butter flavour (Canadian brand) but I'm sure there's an equivalent in the US. 320 cals for a bag the size of your head, it's hard to eat dinner after finishing one of those.

Sometimes cravings need to be fed, in the most manageable way possible. If this healthy lifestyle makes you miserable and leaves you feeling deprived, it'll be that much harder to stick with it.

And if you have a maintenance day now and then, don't feel bad about it. Especially if you're hormonally challenged! We all need some days when we're more flexible with ourselves, to keep us going until we feel more gung-ho.

I've recently discovered the Brach's 100 calorie packs. The only place I can find them is on the top shelf of the candy aisle at Walgreens, but they have two kinds: milk chocolate stars and gummi bears. Both are very good and definitely help when I need a real chocolate or sweet fix!!

Mmm, snack packs! Or weight watchers cakes and desserts, or salsa, pickles or low fat hot choc, they are all the things I try to eat!

Also I just try to go out, stay busy, not have junk food in the house! As long as I don't buy stuff, I tend to get through, or give yourself ONE thing, if your will power is strong enough! Good luck honey, don't worry, at least you know you aren't alone on this particular weakness!

xxxx

I make the following for my pms time (usually I make a ton of them and freeze them):

You need:

Waffle Pretzels, Hershey Kisses and M&M's. 

Heat oven to 170 Degrees. 

Place waffle pretzels on a cookie sheet.  Place a hershey kiss on the pretzel.  Bake for 6-7 minutes.

As soon as they come out, place an M&M on top of the kiss and press down.  

Put in freezer until solid.

34 calories a piece and take care of any salty/chocolate cravings I have. 

 

These are great ideas.  Thank you so much everyone.

vmcbutterfly is right, it's better not to follow cravings BUT if you're going to anyway...

No sugar, high calcium Swiss Miss. 70 cals, 3 g protein, 30% calcium, 6% iron. I'm less likely to over indulge in this than most other choc. sources (i.e. 3 x hundred cal packs!) and it does have some sort of salty undertones.

 

A low fat vanilla yogurt with fruit and cinnamon fills my sweet-tooth craving.

And yeah, the 100 calorie packs (doritos are my favourite) for the salty craving.

I often have chocolate protein powder in my coffee or sometimes I make hot chocolate...for a while I was having a cup every night.  I also like to take a handful of pecans and a handful of chocolate chips and eat the mixture.  My kitchen is downstairs so I take snacks upstairs to my bedroom.

You can try Stonyfield Farm Organic Ice Cream. They have multiple flavors and are really yummy. I think it tastes better than regular ice cream.

Original Post by tatjanaturtle:

I make the following for my pms time (usually I make a ton of them and freeze them):

You need:

Waffle Pretzels, Hershey Kisses and M&M's.

Heat oven to 170 Degrees.

Place waffle pretzels on a cookie sheet. Place a hershey kiss on the pretzel. Bake for 6-7 minutes.

As soon as they come out, place an M&M on top of the kiss and press down.

Put in freezer until solid.

34 calories a piece and take care of any salty/chocolate cravings I have.

 

I don't mean to be ignorant, but what is a "waffle pretzel"? Is it a particular brand or a certain type of pretzel? These sound awesome! Thanks!

Waffle Pretzel????? I'm wondering the same thing as Sphere

It's the little pretzels that are shaped like waffles, you know, the square ones.  I think they also are called window panes.

Those Fiber one bars are really good.  they come in a chocolate flavor and peanut flavor.  They are pretty healthy so its a good 'treat'

Get some of the dark chocolate hershey's kisses and just schedule in a few every day for craving times.

You can have it, you just have to rein in the desire to eat the whole bag!

I find that with the dark chocolate ones, one or two will do me and I don't want to eat them all, like with the milk chocolate ones.  Plus dark chocolate has good antioxidants in it.

I just eat a little bit of what I'm craving to satisfy my tongue. :)

And then I work out a little bit extra to counteract it (even if only to help me psychologically feel better about it!).

My rule is NOT to deprive myself of the things I love because I'll "fall off the wagon", so to speak. Instead, I eat half of what I used to and just exercise a bit more. I've found that that's much more satisfying than what I used to do, too!