Craving Control 101

Cravings are actually all about the body’s blood sugar. Your eating patterns will be consistent and moderate if you have a stable and steady blood sugar levels. But when you are undergoing (or even if not) a weight loss diet and you tend not to eat for hours, cravings call. And most probably, your body will answer. No special weight loss tips will work if you don’t know how to control yourself from your cravings.

As a dieter, you must be aware that a healthy and nutritious meal allows all types of food but in moderate or sometimes small amount consumption. Even though you are a well-motivated dieter, temptations for sweet foods are inevitable. Evil cravings just seem to have their own mind. Studies have shown cravings are actually an effect of brain chemistry. Our body is craving for foods that have the capacity to increase the availability and accessibility of neurotransmitter serotonin which is responsible for the body’s mood regulation. Some researchers believe that food cravings occur because the body is looking for nutrients that it doesn’t have. But the main reason why most people tend to binge is purely psychological. It is by nature that people want and go for things that they can’t have. So when a person is craving for a certain food because he or she is bored, depressed, stressed or simply because their body seems to need it, the fact is we can’t prevent cravings from occurring. What we could do is to have a complete control over these psychological cravings. If you didn’t learn to control these cravings, you will eventually come up with an unsuccessful weight loss diet.

Here are some ways on how to gain control over food cravings:

1. Evade your triggers. Studies have shown that people crave for what they eat. So if a person is able to switch what he or she usually eats, he or she could actually weaken old cravings to give way in strengthening new ones. The first few days of self-control and switching your diet meals every now and then, are always the most difficult part. We can’t easily eliminate our old cravings. But when we try to avoid our trigger foods, we tend to like or want them less. And it will be best for our body if we have changed our usual meal and trigger foods for healthier ones like fresh fruits.

2. Overcome temptations. When you have succumbed to your cravings and bough your trigger food (such as chocolates, cookies or ice creams), you will eventually feel bad as you eat it. You have to learn to overcome these kinds of temptations. Before you enter the food store, think about how much calories you want to put to your hips. If you have bought a trigger food and realized that you will not eat it, you will have to throw it away so that you won’t be tempted again. If you habitually do this kind of routine, you are wasting a lot of money.

3. Learn to let it go. Stress plays a major role in cravings. Learning how to deal with it takes a lot of practice and determination. But once you have let it go, you will be able to save a lot of calories every day. Learning to let go of your food cravings will result to a more effective weight loss diet.

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