If you're tired and lethargic after dinner and trying to compensate with sugar, maybe you're not hungry (after all you're <3 hours after probably your biggest meal of the day). Maybe you just need more sleep?
Or, do as I say not as I do, I find bombay mix type snacks has the best ratio of "least moreish" : "vaguely healthy". I can eat a handful and then stop, just about anything else I'll obliterate the whole packet.
As a matter of interest OP, do you put sugar in your tea/coffee, on your cereals etc? If so, cut that out first, that should reduce the craving. Well, after the cold turkey has subsided.
Nope, I drink plenty of coffee but no sugar. Although I have a sweet tooth, weirdly I can't stand sugar in coffee. Very occasionally I'll have a sugared tea but I don't think I've had one in the last 12 months.
Anyway, I'm having a month (May) off chocolate, biscuits and cake. We'll see how that goes and how creative I can get to sidestep the rules ("That's not cake, that's a tart so it's totally OK!").
If you’re tired and lethargic after dinner and trying to compensate with sugar, maybe you’re not hungry (after all you’re <3 hours after probably your biggest meal of the day). Maybe you just need more sleep?
I don't think I feel unwell when I'm craving, it's just a bad habit that I've got into eating chocolate most evenings. Perhaps it's less a physiological addiction than psychological.
Anyway it's day 2 and I'm doing OK, although I'd feel happier if those tiny elephants would stop crawling all over me.
