Just eat your next meal, earlier. It's that simple. Eat your next planned meal one, two or even three hours earlier. If its after dinner, eat more of what you had for dinner. If there'e no dinner left, eat what you planned to make for breakfast the next day. Stay on course. Don't make extra drama out of your hunger. It's only hunger. Feed it. But feed it the correct thing.

If I am craving something sweet but don't want to eat something sweet, I will sometimes eat a small pat of butter by letting is slowly dissolve on my tongue. It works for me and kills the craving for sweets.

Drink something - water, hot tea, iced tea, coffee.

A lot of times hunger is confused for thirst.

If I'm craving it's usually because I'm hungry. So I feed. On the meat and the fat. Fill yourself up on the good stuff.

If I feel like something sweet I usually just eat some; fruit or such.

I have a feeling as you're VLC, a sweet craving could be a sign or not enough vitamin C or glucose.

Eat healthy fats like unsweetened coconut flakes. You can even roast them and they are DELICIOUS! I also like to pop olives in my mouth when I want a treat. Once again the fats help curve the craving.

Sour flavors work well when I'm really hungry for something sweet. I break out a bottle of fizzy water kefir or I have pickles or I eat a grapefruit.

If you are in withdrawal from a sugar addiction, there's no sure thing to distract the cravings. You might need to do an errand or have a long phone conversation and just let the feeling pass.

If you've been off sugar for a long time, you may have a deficiency of something but I'd still try something sour and see what happens.

If you are really hungry, eat. Protein has been shown in study after study to shut down hunger (and cravings in my experience). Keep something like hard boiled eggs around in case of emergency.

If you are not hungry and it's a craving (addiction), get your mind off of it if possible - have sex, go for a walk/run, read a book, dance, whatever works for you.

Lastly, you can try the overdose until you are sick trick - you won't want to eat it again. This happened to me with rasins. I used to love them. When I was very young (3 or 4), I snuck off behind our couch with a big bag of little boxes of rasins and ate them until I was really ill. I have never been able to eat them since. Caveat - this may or may not work for you.

best piece of advice i got? when you want sugar, eat fat. every time.

Eat healthy fats like unsweetened coconut flakes. You can even roast them and they are DELICIOUS! I also like to pop olives in my mouth when I want a treat. Once again the fats help curve the craving.

When I was transitioning off sugar, a huge help for me was herbal tea. Peppermint, orange, blueberry -- the fruit teas especially were helpful because I felt like I was getting a little fruit juice, but without the sugar. Just read the label to check for sweeteners first.

"Need."

Dictionary: "Require as useful, just, or proper."

Are you really, really, really sure you "need" sugar?

Brief, intense exercise, even for just 5 or 10 minutes. This kills my cravings and appetite for a few hours.

Black coffee works really well for me if I'm craving sweets or carbs.

I know that this won't help if you're in the no-toothpaste crowd, but brushing my teeth with the mintiest toothpaste you can get pretty much ruins my desire to eat anything, no matter how much I was craving it before.

I eat 5 smarties (1/3 of a roll) or 2 sweet tarts. They are glucose (not sucrose or fructose) and it seems to knock out the annoying hunger I have sometimes after a low-carb meal, when my stomach is full (meaning I don't want any more of what I was just eating), but my stomach won't leave me alone.

Technically it still sugar, but it's only 2 carbs and it really helps me.

Good for you for your determination! Would raisins be ok for you? High sugar but I still consider them natural so I eat them occasionally for the iron. Raisins got me out of my last sweet attack! Otherwise I'd go for regular fruit.

If you're like most people and your sweet tooth kicks in before bed, then I recommend picking up some chocolate casein protein powder and making either a) a big casein milkshake with coconut milk or water and lots of ice in the blender (cold and frosty-like) or b) mixing a scoop or two into 1/4-1/2 cup of water and putting it in the freezer for 15-30 minutes (thick and pudding-like). It really does the job for me. I know protein powders (especially casein) aren't really good for everyone or maybe even anyone, but it really does do the job to get rid of a chocolate craving. I think it comes out better than eating a chocolate bar (which would keep me up all night long and also send me to the bathroom too many times).

I don't.

It's called discipline.