Cravings

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6/1/12 3:48 P

Food preferences are habits. As any habit, they may be healthy or unhealthy. The unhealthy habits must be replaced by the healthy ones. So don't try to just stop yourself, replace it with a similar, but healthy alternative. If you try to use your willpower and deprive yourself, it will backfire. Either take your replacement food with you or ask your parents for a suitable replacement. That way, you also may end up getting their support in losing the fat.

Edited by: MPLANE37 at: 6/1/2012 (15:50)

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6/1/12 11:49 A

Hi NITAHIGHT

Here's an article you might find helpful regarding cravings

www.sparkpeople.com/resource/nutrition_art
icles.asp?id=1436

Good Luck!

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6/1/12 1:50 A

There are many ways to deal with this:

1) Eat it. There are no foods off limits. It isn't what you do every once in a while that matters, it's what you do consistently. An occasional biscuit isn't what got you where you are and it won't stop you from making progress either.

2) Don't eat it. Find out what is really in those biscuits. At the very least we are talking about flour and some damaged, unnatural fat. Educate yourself as what white flour and damaged oils do to your body and you might not want it anymore. Some people find that they wouldn't eat just a little biscuit any more than they would eat just a little arsenic.

3) Eat half. This is especially effective when you learn what's really in it, then share half with someone you don't like all that much.

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6/1/12 1:17 A

How do you deal with cravings for things you really shouldn't have, either at all or simply at the time when you want them?

For instance, one of my favorite things to have for breakfast, when I can get it, is a honey-butter chicken biscuit from Whataburger. However, it has over half of my fat intake for the day, and that's before we discuss hash-brown sticks (another favorite of mine, though easier to live without). It won't keep me full the entire day, or even half of it. I've done good so far, mostly by avoiding opportunities to have it, but sooner or later it's going to get offered, since both of my parents love Whataburger and I'm home with them until August.

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