Ideas for a no carb snack to ease sugar cravings

[PamyK]

[The food is fine and the i'm always full which is good but in the evenings I am craving SUGAR!!!! After dinner i'm not allowed any carbs, I am allowed yoghurt but i'm already over it! I used to have an ice block in the evening but now i'm not allowed

Does anyone have any good ideas for any low-sugar snacks I can eat?

TIA [/QUOTE]

Hi

I'm currently doing atkins and cannot have any sugar at all. my biggest problem with a diet was always beating those sugar cravings. I have found that chromium tablets help to ease out your blood sugar levels which means you don't have the sugar cravings.

Appart from that there is a really good sugar free dark chocolate bar with mint crisps. It's by "....Well,naturally" and I buy it a Woolworths. And the good thing about this bar is it taste like real chocolate and it doesn't make you "go" if you have to much.

Hope this helps

[C~Q]

Ooh, that sounds good, i'll have to look out for that, thanks. I think with the sugar cravings its more psychological than anything else so I don't think the tablets would work!

Keep the suggestions coming

[Meluchja]

I'm currently doing the Tony Ferguson diet and they sell a whole range of suger free chocolates, wafers (savoury and sweet), lollies and jellies. The lollies and jellies I find much cheaper in the supermarket, but DH and I absolutely love the wafers and the chocolate. He loves the praline one and me the white chocolate one. But they have dark, chilli, hazelnut, white, praline, mint, choc waffer(timeout kind of thing) and more. They aren't that cheap, I think $4.95 for a large block, but we looovvveeee them.

[C~Q]

Are they high in fat though? Do you have any at home you can look at for me? So you can get them in the supermarket, hmm....

[Meluchja]

Not the choc. I don't think, not that brand but I'm sure there would others you can, I just know these are really yummy

O.K Waffers - per 100g (serving size 2.3g) Fat-23g, Carb-1g So a little high in fat
Chocolate - per 100g (serving size 8g) Fat 32g, Carb-8g. Again a little high.

I think you would be safest with the diet jelly that is 0g fat and 0.07g carb per 100g. So many flavours to choose from too. And with a little of low-fat low-carb (IGA make a great one) vanilla ice-cream, tastes like a Splice ice-cream, ummmmm.......

[Lucy]

A Chupa Chup does me.........it is much lower in carbs than a yogurt.

I have avoided the diet jelly (and any of the diet products containing the additives numbers 951 and 950) as these additives seem to really increase my cravings for more sweet things.......

[smiles4u]

CombatQueen, ... the bags of lollies & wafer choc (& block of choc) that Tony Ferg centres sell you can get them in the Darrell Lea shop

(blocks are about $4.95 & bars about $2.50)

The bags of lollies you can also get in BigW, .. sometimes they have them on special for about $2.12 to $2.50 a bag

I love the dark choc wafer bar ... yummo

[C~Q]

Going to the supermarket tomorrow where abouts will I find the diet choc etc??

[Inanna]

I tried the white chocolate from Tony Fergusen - Oh Lordy - it's heaven in a packet!!!!!!

[Neenee Jellybeanie]

The problem with replacing sugar with artificial sweeteners is that you'll never get over the cravings; artificial sweeteners cause the same chemical activity in the brain as actual sugar, plus there are all the health risks associated with artificial sweeteners. Sorry to be such a downer lol.

[Inanna]

I know that's true for some - but I really don't get that desire... It's not the same at least I don't need the carbs iykwim??? When I have a big carb or sugar fix - I crave more and more... Wit the artificial sweetners I don't get that. But maybe I am unusual???

[C~Q]

This is a quote from an article in Aus Womens Health

Food Standards Australia New Zealand established the amount of sugar substitutes you can have over a lifetime without any appreciable health risk. "To reach the Accetable Daily Intake for aspartame someone weighing 70KG would need to consume 2.8g a day - equal to about 20 cans of diet soft drink or more than 100 standard 1g packets of sweetner"

But it also says a 2004 study in the International Journal of Obesity that when we offer our bodies sweet diet drinks without the KJ's, they crave real sugar even more.

So I suppose that although artificial sweetners have a real place in todays overweight, diabetic society we should always eat things in "moderation".

[Inanna]

I agreee Combagt Queen. That's nteresting though...

[Astrid]

Artificial sweeteners do have their place, but I do think they are part of the weight problem these days. I think it is much better to give up soft drink or limit it to occasional, rather than just do a direct swap. If you are drinking a 1.25 litre bottle per day it can't be good no matter what is making it sweet. Just swapping to the artificial or low version of something, does not really address the problems behind a weight problem in the first place.

Artificial sweeteners are a good tool in the transition of changing ones eating habits.

[haleyscomet]

I am so new to this myself, I tried the no sugar peters icecream and I hate to say but it was pretty revolting stuff. I am wondering though (I am not at home right now), the WW choc desserts are low in carbs, I would imagine they are. They are BRILLIANT and even though its WW it tastes rich and like 'naughty' food. I will have to check how high in carbs it is though.

Sorry no definitive advice but I am all ears