Sage

Raisins and prunes are awesome, as are most dried fruit.

Honestly, when it comes to really sweet stuff, it's 90% in your head. When I went on a low carb diet (which I don't recommend) I switched to Splenda in my coffee. I noticed for about the first week and then I didn't notice at all anymore. Getting over eating a bunch of sweets is as simple as not eating them for a week... it cuts the cravings WAY down.

as for healthy stuff... try to find ways to sneak it into everything else. Use the insides of Spaghetti squash in place of real pasta... use whole wheat flour, eat whole wheat pasta, have real oatmeal instead of the instant stuff... "eating healthy" isn't so much about forcing yourself to have a big bowl of flax seeds for breakfast as it is realizing that the healthiest things you can eat are things you make yourself. So if you have a burger and fries, only it's a burger you made yourself with real cheese on top and a whole wheat bun with homemade fries, it's way better for you than McDonalds.

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