Craving sweets is very common. It comes and goes.
But it is much better then craving alcohol. To some people, I heard, it helped to overcome their craving for alcohol.
Alcohol first of all is a poison. Eating ice-cream - well, who doesn't like ice-cream? Are you allergic to ice-cream? Or are you an alcoholic, allergic to alcohol?
As you very well know there are many ways of losing weight. If you managed to give up alcohol, you can manage to eat a bit less sweets, or eat sweets with no sugar in it. Exercise. Walk.
Congratulation on your approaching 6 months!
Isn't it sweet that you are sober? Be kind to yourself and don't feel too bad after eating the ice cream.

I love my sweets and always have an Eskimo Pie in the freezer however, it's something I need to balance and we do that in our house by having a mini fruit platter after tea instead. Spoiled with a great selection at the moment. Mango's, Strawberries are in, melons, peaches, just mouthwatering.

I definitely added sweets when I took out booze. I didn't gain weight as I think I was drinking more in than the handful of jelly beans I added after lunch and the kettle corn after dinner:-)
Either way I focused on sobriety and was ok with treats.
I'm now about to have 2 years, god willing, and still love my sweets!

Add me to the list, it was the little Hershey cubes for me. This craving for me was very early in sobriety. I will pile on in saying that eating sweets is a great trade off to drinking. I added some weight myself but not just from the sweets. When I felt like I needed to reward myself, and would usually drink to do this, I decided better to stop and have my favorite meal, chicken fried steak. Luckily I was able to find less caloric ways to reward myself. Don't sweat a little extra weight, that is a lot easier to shed than it is to stop drinking. Congrats on your sobriety.!!!!!

it's very normal to crave sweets when you quit drinking because our bodies turn alcohol into sugar

I was into sweets when I stopped drinking alcohol. Then I started to *really* get into sweets. It's normal to crave them, as you can see from the responses here. I too thought that once I stopped the booze, I would lose weight. No way. I gained - from the sugar, mostly. Several chocolate bars and lots of other sweets a day is way more calories that a mickey of vodka.

For me, though, I started taking sugar to a level that I associated with booze in my drinking days. I was starting to hide wrappers, binge, lie about my consumption, obsessed about excess sugar, gained weight, and ate it emotionally...all in sobriety. So about 2 1/2 months ago I cut it out completely. I get cravings, yes, but I feel healthier, have lost about 20 lbs, and have great energy.

Sugar is toxic to our bodies...but it is seen as a much lesser evil compared to alcohol. But sugar hits the same pleasure spots heroin and cocaine do in the brain, and it does lead to health problems, especially in excess. Hidden sugars hurt us as much as any candy. Anyway, I won't bore you with details...Google it and you will see what sugar can do and does do to one's overall health. I stick with fruit these days :)

Congrats on your sober time!

Your body is trying to adjust to life without the huge amount of sugar that you consumed through alcohol and it would appear that it has not yet happened. Try making sure that you have some slow burning carbs so that you are less likely to crave sweets. Truth is, it will bring about a lot of other health problems if you eat too much sugar. So, maybe cold turkey on that!

What recovery programme are you using (if any)?

I have delt with a similar craving when I tried to quit smoking lol :( but don't fret a good to curb your sweet tooth and not put on the extra pounds is simple eat things that are naturally sweet dark chocolate is actually good for you fuirts raisins spoon fulls of honey just to tie you over until you can power through that craving and defeat it