if you take chromium daily it helps to regulate the insulin levels in your body and thus helps to regulate the amount of sugar that your body absorbs, it also help to kill your appitite for sweets not completley but it slows it a little, it works for me.

You might want to check out How to Eat Less Sugar, How to Give Up Chocolate and How to Break a Bad Habit.

exercise -- even pushups and situps... to get your blood flowing once the sugar high wears off. and coffee.

What eventually cured me was surrounding myself with goodies that are *too* sweet. If you can find anything that is sickeningly sweet, it can push you back to real food a bit faster (or greasy food, as in my case). An example for me was store-bought cupcakes with white frosting -- they always put on too much frosting, and the frosting is just way too sweet.

Another thing you can do is try to eat a lot of sweet fruits - grapes, blueberries, rasberries, blackberries, and apples are my favorites. They are a lot healthier, and a lot harder to get sick of.

Here is a completely unscientific opinion that may work. It is based completely on 50 years of suffering the same problem and conversations with friends that suffer the same problem.

My wife can open a (small) package of M&M's on her desk and they will last for two weeks. I know lots of other people who can do the same thing.

I have many friends who are like me and go berserk at the first bite and eat constantly untill they can't get any more or until they get sick.

We all called it sweet tooth until we started comparing notes. Based on those conversations we believe.

Some people are addicted to carbohidrates. All carbohidrates.

If we eat one bite of carbohidrate it will trigger an immediate insatiable craving for more. This is an unconsous craving, not a hunger. I can go the the vending machine and buy a candy bar, eat it, and not even be aware of it until I am wiping up the crumbs and licking them off my fingers. ( Yea, gross. )

If I eat a bagle for breakfast it wil satisfy me for about 15 minutes and I will be starving for more carbs, only cabs, any carb will do. Thius craving will not go away until I go to sleep tonight.

When I wake up in the morning, I am not hungry. I can eat nothing and have no cravings at all until around noon and then it is hunger, not cravings.

If I eat nothing but protien and fibre for lunch there will be no cravings. I can eat meat, cheese, eggs, salad etc for lunch and do fine. BUT ABSOLUTELY
no sugar. only vinegar and oil - no salad dressing they all have sugar. Not even diced ham on the salad. Diced turkey is fine.

No snaks. Fortunately you will not crave them after about the second day.
If you do snak, try a boiled egg. Absolutely no carbs of any kind. This includes fruit and some vegetables especally sweet vegetables like carrots and tomatoes.

Now about artificial sweetner. I have no idea why but it acts like real carbs in triggering these cravings. This is not just my opinion, many of my friends with these cravings report the same experience. Drinking a diet soda is just as bad as eating a candy bar.

What does this leave?

All day...
No sugar or any other carbs of any kind.
No artificial sweetner of any kind in any product.

Remember, many protien dishes contain sugar. Especially the ham found on most salad bars.
Drink only water, black coffee, unsweetened tea.

Snaks:
Protien yes.
Not jerky it is all loaded with sugar
Boiled eggs.
Pickles
Celery
etc.
read the lable - no sugar.

What about carbs.
You gotta have carbs. do not try to live without them, you will eventually get sick. Eat them for supper. Eat supper as late as possible. ( I know this is counter to conventonal wisdom but you need to go to sleep before you get hungry.

Remember, the FIRST bite is the only one you can possibly resist. You MUST resist that first bite. If you take the first bite, you are lost for the rest of the day.

Good luck, it is a tough problem to lick but you can do it.

Try fruits like apples, pears and grapes to satisfy the sweet tooth. They also do not cause a crash like sugared candy does.

This depends on whether you have a sweet convulsion (you can't stop eating sweet things) or just read badly to sugar. If its convulsive eating, then the easiest solution is to find a replacement. Drink a glass of water. This will fill your stomach and fool your body into thinking you don't want anything sweet to eat. If its a "reaction" issue, then try non-processed sugar alternatives, like fruit. Fruit wont give you the same swings.

Have you tried artificially sweetened treats? There are all sorts of foods made with Splenda, and my diabetic friends say they taste just like the real thing.