The best advice I can give is limit your access to junk food.

I'm perfectly fine at home when there's no junk food around

I can go shopping, and be tempted to buy those oreos or cheetos, but once I check the calories, I can put it down.

But once a family member decides to pig out, it's too hard to walk by the package without grabbing a cookie or two!

Get the chocolate mints out of the house!  Out of sight out of mind. 

When you are making the "home baked cookies" try and find some recipes that are healthier and lower in calories, that way if you indulge a little it won't be as bad, plus it will be better for your kids too.  I wish I could give you some ideas, but I'm at work right now and don't have access to my cookbooks, but there are plenty of recipes out there for healthier cookies.  

You can't deprive yourself completely otherwise when you do give in you will most likely go way overboard.  I know thats how I am. 

Get rid of the cookies! At least for a few weeks until you can curb this habit - remember it takes 21 days to make or break a habit! The kids will be fine going without cookies - give them a healthier treat.

The best way to avoid any of that sort of temptation is to remove it altogether, otherwise you're just playing with fire and it's too cruel on yourself to rely on self will all the time.

Yes, it is easier said than done!

Accept the fact that you want the cookies/chocolate/candy, yup just accept it.  That's what I do, and I say 'I know I want that right now, but no.  NO!' And I leave it at that.  That works for me when I'm in a temporary food situation like my friend offers me a snack, or I'm walking past free chips/chocolate/etc things.

The other suggestions of getting it out of the house asap is also good.  I know I will eat an entire loaf of bread if it's just me and the bread in a room, so I don't even go near it in the cafeteria (since we can buy entire loafs..it's the end of the year and people have extra money left on their meal plans..) but yeah..

I accept the fact that I want it, and then tell myself not to have it.

Mariyumm makes an excellent point.  Maybe try cutting down on the cookies and sweets that you allow for the kids.  Occasionally, it's not bad.  But one thing I've learned on here from other parents is that they wish that their parents would have taught them healthy eating earlier in life.  The good news is that YOU are learning more about nutrition and healthy eating and now you can help to break the cycle by passing that on to your kids. 

Yeah, I'm with the concept of not cooking those cookies at all..  Make em a fruit salad instead   but if you can't help it how about eating something  before/after the cookies are baked that will make the cookies taste nasty or uninteresting?  Celery? Carrot?  I'm not even sure there is one whole food that will curb your appetite for the cookie, but for me, a sip of red wine will make that chocolate chip cookie look like saw dust omelette

I would get out of there once the cookies are out. The smell would be enough to make me have one.

Lately I've just been wanting some junk food. I think i might do it. I'm happy with what I've done, aslong as I exercise and such, I should be good this summer.

I'm craving some sort of BERRY pie or apple pie, and for some reason licorice.

Well i have a very sweet tooth myself. But what i did is i stopped buying cookies for my son and myself, i replaced it with 100 calorie packs of oreo crisps and such, fat free jello and fat free pringles and american idol low calorie ice cream. It's 120calories per cup. So if you can do the same i'm sure you will be just fine. Just keep within your calorie limit, if u eat like 1000 calories in food just save the rest for ur sweets. Just don't go over ur limit or the weightloss most likely wont work.

Good luck. :)

Thanks for all the advice, some great points, I am trying to get my 5 year old involved with eating healthy and he does really well, Im going to look for healthy recipes for dinner that is easy enough that he can help with the while baking cookies with him was more for fun memories and cooking/baking skills, math ect. not just the cookies :) but they are so yummy lol. After a month I have him saying he likes salad yay! That chocolate craving is a hard one to ignore thats for sure. But if I quit smoking I can quit chocolate at least for awhile :) Thanks all

I love baking and cooking, and I grew up in a house where making cookies was something that I still associate with spending time with my mom.  So, I'd find it hard to give up.  What I might try if I were in your shoes was to set aside a container of cookies for yourself.  So if after you make cookies and they last a week, set aside 2 cookies per day in a container for yourself.  I know that no diet would work without chocolate for me, it's just how much.  So you know that once they are gone you're done and can't steal the ones the kids have!  Not sure if that'd work for you, but I think that's a version of how I'm handling my sweet tooth.

I have a 4 1/2 year old who has a sweet tooth like me. Every single time I would try to start an eating plan, having those extras around for my husband and daughter were sabatoging me.

This time around, I stopped buying all the junk food, cookies, candies, etc. My daughter is slowly coming around to eating healthier things along with me. My husband has been supportive by keeping temptations out of the house. If he wants a donut or something he goes out and gets it.

What's been interesting the past couple of weeks though is, they have been snacking and eating alot of same stuff I'm buying, so it's all good. I keep a box of 100 cal packs and my daughter loves them. Same with fruit. Grapes, Apples, all that good stuff.

So far so good. Tonight we all had a 100 calorie blue bunny fudge ice cream bar. So it's not like everyone is giving up some of the treats we enjoy. Just less of them :)

Good luck to ya

You really have to want it for yourself!!!

It took me along time to tell myself no,  Trust me sweetie, IT'S WORTH IT!!!

You need to learn to hate those foods that put the weight on you to begin with.  do those mint candie's look better in the package, or on your butt.  same with the cookies......DO they look better on the plate or on your stomach.