Switching from flavored to unflavored protein powder has significantly helped fight cravings

tldr: I switched from various flavored protein powdered to unflavored in smoothies, and my sugar cravings are SIGNIFICANTLY reduced.

Obviously everyone is different, and I have no medical background, so this may not help everyone. However, this is what happened with me.

I've been exercising and watching my weight for many years now (7-8). At the start, I mostly focused on just losing weight, and I lost a decent amount at the start. Cutting out most sweets was pretty after the first stretch of it. Eventually, I realized the importance of building some muscle, so I added in light lifting with a smoothie with protein powder after. Being a broke young person in college, I went for whatever was on sale-vanilla this, cookies and cream that, ect. I mostly tried to mask the artificial flavoring with fruit and other things in the smoothies, but I still stuck with those because they were the cheapest. Around that time though, I also started craving sweets a lot more again. Even when I'd resist, the cravings were still there, and I always sort of thought it was because I was craving more calories due to my body recovering from workouts.

Fast forward to now, and in the past few months, I've started using a container of unflavored protein powder. I still mix in other sweet things, like bananas and berries, into my smoothies, but I've cut the super sweet artificial flavored powder. Let me just say, oh my god did this make me feel different throughout my day. I used to crave a sweet snack everyday a couple hours after my workout and smoothie. Those cravings are gone now. I feel like it's also so much easier to eat at normal times without feeling cravings to snack on something between meals. Even when I eat something sweet, I don't seem to feel those same cravings like when I'd have the overly sweet artificial sweetness in many protein powders.

So I'll leave this again by saying that this may not make a difference for everyone, but it certainly helped me. I'd also love to hear if anyone else experienced something similar with very sweet protein powders.

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