8 simple tricks that helped me stop craving sweets 24/7 (I lost weight, too)

#1 is the most effective, IMO.

Hello friends!

If you’ve been following me for a while, you know I have the world’s biggest sweet tooth. I’m talking a treat after every dinner—a cinnamon sugar bread from the farmers market, a big gooey cookie, something sweet to seal the deal. I’m a dessert girl, always have been.

So when I embarked on a recent weight loss journey and started eating differently, I genuinely thought I might not survive. I would literally spend hours thinking about cookies. My sister’s homemade M&M ones haunted me. I’d wake up dreaming about them, pass a café and feel this intense craving for the brownie behind the glass. I’m not even totally sure how much I was enjoying those treats; they were just a habit, or a comfort when I was stressed.

But here's the wildest part: That obsessive, all-consuming noise around sugar is pretty much gone. I don’t say that lightly—and I never, ever would’ve believed it if you’d told me this a year ago—but I’m not using willpower to skip sweet treats anymore. I genuinely just... don’t want it.

This didn’t happen overnight, and it also didn’t happen by cutting things out cold turkey or making myself feel bad. It happened by shifting the way I treat myself, not just with food, but in general. Some days I still want a little something sweet, but more often, I realize what I’m really craving is a moment of joy, or comfort, or connection. And now, I have a toolkit that actually helps me feel good.

So today, I want to share the real, everyday things that helped me stop craving sweets 24/7. And I’m proud to say that now, I hardly have to rely on my willpower at all! (Also: yes, I still eat dessert sometimes. But now it’s intentional, not automatic.)

P.S. Don’t miss my list of simple recipes that I have leaned on heavily during my weight loss journey. They’re all super easy and delicious!

8 tricks that finally made me stop craving sugar