Conquer Food Cravings

You can conquer food cravings if you are determined in your efforts to lose weight and keep it off.

Well several things can be coming into play.

Your body could really need some sustenance to keep it well fuelled.

However, it is more likely that you do not feed your body the right food at the right time of day and therefore your stomach is craving food.

If you have made a habit of eating particular treats in certain circumstances, food cravings are a bit like the conditioning Pavlov applied to dogs in his stimulus/response experiments.

If you have created a habit of long, leisurely afternoon teas or night time treats, you start to crave food - sugary, fatty and/or salty treats every day at the "right" time and place.

Controlling food cravings means a re-alignment of your daily food intake . If you are eating the bulk of your food towards the end of the day and starving your body by skipping a proper breakfast and lunch, you are setting yourself up for food cravings.

"I need a sugar hit" is an excuse for sliding a diet busting bar (or three) of saturated fat down your eager gullet. You will not "need" a sugar hit if you eat at regular intervals throughout the day.

Small meals consisting mainly of complex carbs, unsaturated fats and protein will inhibit food cravings.

Prepare attractive to the eye, healthy snacks for mid morning and mid afternoon.

Have them on hand to stop you heading out in search of a nutritionless greasy spoon or a sly fat-filled vending machine.

Eat a small dinner and have a nutritious snack about an hour after your evening meal.

Recognise the "eating by association" habits you have grown into and devise tactics to avoid them.

You can go for a walk, ring a friend, bath the dog - anything that gets you out of the place and time where you would normallystart thinking about little treats and giving in to your food craving.

Craving food comes on and goes away again like a wave. If you can hold out against food craving for 20 minutes, the moment will have passed and the next food craving you get will be less intense and easier to ignore. Willpower can be learned, but only if you really want to learn it.

You must ensure, however that you are eating properly and fueling your body well or you will not manage to conquer food cravings.

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