Tips to Curb Chocolate Cravings

For many women, the issue is not trying to understand why they crave chocolate on a regular basis, but trying to find ways to control the chocolate cravings so that they do not get out of control and lead to weight gain. There are many reasons why women are more inclined to eat chocolate and be drawn to it, the biggest being that there are many chemicals in the chocolate that stimulate feelings of wellness and euphoria, which creates the draw to eat it. Cravings usually only last for about twenty minutes, so those twenty minutes are very important in the battle to curb chocolate cravings.

Tricks

One way to curb chocolate cravings is to keep chocolate out of the house altogether. If the chocolate is not in the home and the individual has to go out in public to eat it, she is not as likely to overeat on the chocolate. In addition, there are ways to keep chocolate in the home that are fat free or at least low fat and low calories. There are different puddings and mousses that can be made of non-fat milk or bought already made in a low fat or non fat state. These products help individuals to curb their chocolate craving by allowing themselves to eat some chocolate but in a form that is still conducive to their health and weight.

Another way to curb chocolate cravings is to exercise whenever the craving occurs. This not only gets the person out of the house where the chocolate temptation is, but it also allows them to exercise, which produces its own feelings of euphoria when the individual is finished. This helps the person to keep her body healthy as well as distracting her mind from the chocolate cravings so that when she gets back to the home she is less likely to ruin the work that she just did with a binge on chocolate.

Another way to curb chocolate cravings is to place the chocolate in a place where it is not easy to reach. Placing the chocolate high on a shelf in a container is a way to make it less easy to be seen as well as more difficult to reach in order to binge. In addition, buying the chocolate in individually wrapped pieces is another way to curb chocolate cravings since it takes time to unwrap every little piece of the chocolate. In this way, the person can eat one or two, curb the chocolate craving, and pass the twenty minute period where it is the easiest to binge on the chocolate.

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