Kourtney Kardashian's Cravings Are Causing a Problem at Home


Updated 04/27/12 7:30 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

Kourtney Kardashian Pregnancy Cravings

Pickles and ice cream have nothing on Kourtney Kardashian's cravings this go-round! The pregnant mama — who's expecting a baby girl in a few months — kept things healthy while pregnant with her son Mason, 2, but this baby has her gobbling down comfort food. During an appearance on The Rachael Ray Show today, Kourtney explained that she found herself wanting fruit and frozen yogurt the first Read more

It's Time to Quit Your Sugar Addiction Once and For All


Updated 04/26/12 3:10 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Why You Should Eat Less Sugar

There's lots to love about sugar: it makes dessert delicious and fruit flavorful. But eating too much sugar (more than the recommended six teaspoons a day) is bad for more than your waistline. Read on for three important reasons to cut back on sugar. You always want more: It's hard to stop at just one cookie or piece of cake; that's because sugar is addictive. Eating sugar activates feel-good Read more

How to Deal With Cravings to Addictive Foods


Updated 10/26/11 6:16 PM · Posted by FitSugar · 4 comments

How to Deal With Sugar, Coffee, Chocolate, Alcohol Cravings

We've all seesawed between depriving ourselves then binging on cravings, usually because we crave things that we know we should avoid. According to Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D., founder of The Natural Gourmet Institute and prominent author and lecturer on natural health and holistic medicine, we should listen to some cravings. They are the body's signal to search for nutrients it needs to operate Read more

How to Reduce Your Sugar and Salt Cravings


Updated 07/05/11 8:06 AM · Posted by · 6 comments

How to Reduce Sugar and Salt Cravings

It's an endless cycle: satiating your salt and sugar cravings can end up with you just wanting more. Once our taste buds get used to sugary or salty foods, it's hard to cut back. Since most of us are eating way more than the recommended daily values for sugar (six teaspoons of added sugar a day) and salt (1500 to 2300 mg a day) — not to mention the sugar and salt levels hiding in processed Read more

How Well Do You Know Your Celebrity Pregnancy Cravings?


Updated 05/13/11 11:35 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Celebrity Pregnancy Cravings

Pickles and ice cream may be the punch line of pregnancy craving jokes, but most mamas-to-be have much more interesting food necessities. Our readers told us about wanting everything from canned soup to raw pie dough throughout their nine months, and celeb mamas-to-be have equally interesting desires. Take this quiz to see just how much you know about Hollywood's expectant moms. Question 1 of Read more

Train Your Brain to Control Cravings (3 Simple Tricks!)


Updated 08/04/10 5:50 PM · Posted by · 4 comments

Control Your Food Cravings With Three Easy Tips

We are pumped to share our fave story from Self here on FitSugar! One common work-week diet trap: the 3-o'clock munchies. You know the feeling. Before you know it, you're standing before the vending machine, with the voice in your head saying "I want, I want, I want!" Here's how to silence those thoughts without feeling deprived. Ready to take control over your cravings? Follow these three Read more

LilSugar Readers' Crazy Pregnancy Cravings


Updated 07/03/10 6:00 AM · Posted by babysugar · 0 comments

Strange Pregnancy Cravings

Salted avocado topped with cottage cheese and raw pie dough, please! When an expectant mama's stomach is dictating her food intake, anything goes. We asked our readers to share their craziest pregnancy cravings and weren't surprised when some of the responses were unlikely pairings. See if yours made the list! Read more

LilSugar Challenge: Crazy Things That Pregnant Women Crave!


Updated 12/03/10 4:59 PM · Posted by babysugar · 20 comments

Strange Pregnancy Cravings 2010-06-30 09:00:00

A pint of ice cream and pass the pickles? Pregnancy cravings can easily get the best of an expectant mama or, more likely, her partner if she isn't prepared. I never had any crazy late night cravings (like vegetarians who suddenly need meat), but I did find myself eating more of these three things: Mexican food Gummy candy Bagels Pickles with ice cream or eggs round the clock, tell us: what was Read more

Don't Give Up Because You Gave In


Updated 10/14/11 11:50 AM · Posted by FitSugar · 12 comments

Don't Give Up If You Give In to Occasional Temptations

When trying to forge a healthy habit, even the strongest among us can slip up sometimes. Whatever our resolutions may be — working out every day, not eating sweets, having just one cup of coffee per day — we have unintended cheat days or weak moments. But just because you give in to temptation once doesn't mean you should give up your healthy goals. I'll admit that sometimes when I veer from Read more

Lil Community: What Did You Look Forward to After Pregnancy?


Updated 12/07/10 7:56 AM · Posted by · 20 comments

Waiting For Baby's Arrival

Nine months can seem like a lifetime when you're pregnant. LilSugar reader SugarKat is already dreaming about life after her second tot arrives and shared her latest thoughts about pregnancy in The Pregnancy Posse group. I belong to two wine clubs and get shipments even when I'm pregnant. I can't wait to try them. I love soft cheeses more than most other food in life. I would love a Jimmy Read more