A nutritionist whose name I don’t remember who was interviewed on some morning show offered these three steps to stave off a dessert craving.
1. Squeeze a stress ball 10 times. (Probably one in each hand would be best.)
2. Do 100 jumping jacks.
3. Drink 8 ounces of water.
That hopefully will get your mind off dessert for a time. Especially if you pass out after doing 100 jumping jacks.
Of course, my daughter did not help much by giving me a motion-activated candy dispenser filled with M&M’s for Christmas.
I buy meringue cookies. They’re crispy, sweet, and delicate. Two large ones take me about 10 or 15 minutes to nibble through, and have a total of 55 calories. 🙂
What a great idea. Another good one is to brush your teeth right after dinner. Nothing tastes good after that, and it mentally, as well as physically, denotes the end of eating for the night. However, as all good thiefs know, there is always a way around a lock. I too often find myself putting off brushing my teeth….where is my Won’t-Eat- Anything-Else power?
Maybe if I squeezed the stress ball 10,000 times instead of 10 I’d be in better non-dessert shape. I’d be “out” and nothing on my mind! The other option for me: have desserts have any connection to coffee flavor at all under any circumstances. I could lose lots and lots of wt if that was an option. What I’m doing now is weighing myself every morning. I’m where I want to be now. If I gain a pound, I veg and water for the day. Maybe seems addictive, but it took two years to be in this spot, and I ain’t in the mood to leave it! [When my wt is looking good ice cream and chocolate can still enter my “life”.]