6 Ways To Control Your Food Cravings
Do you have food cravings?
How many diets have you been on that were totally sabotaged by giving in to your cravings?
It seems we can make all kinds of good decisions to eat healthy, exercise, REALLY lose weight this time. Then we get a little stressed, or we catch the aroma of something, or we see someone else eating what we love. It is at that moment that all resistance and willpower fade away and we give in to our cravings!
Satisfying the craving often fills us with guilt or even self hatred. We feel like a failure because once again we have let the craving be in control. This lowers our self-esteem and we enter a cycle of not feeling good about ourselves and satisfying our craving because it provides comfort.
Following are a few suggestions you might try to help control your cravings.
1. DO NOT bring the food you crave into the house. Even if that affects other family members, explain that it is for your health and even sanity that the food not enter your home.
2. When that craving gets going, get yourself a big glass of water. Drinking water will assuage your craving because the water is satisfying a need of your body. Then wait a full fifteen minutes. Set the timer and go do something else. When the time goes off it is likely that your craving will be gone.
3. If you are at a grazing table, graze at the vegetable/fruit end. But, instead of grazing, put the food on your plate and then move AWAY from the table. Find someone really interesting to talk with. And yes, keep a glass of water with you.
4. If you see someone else enjoying what you really crave, do an about face and head for the glass of water again. Water is very satisfying to the body and more times then not will keep your cravings at bay.
Is there a connection between weight loss and cravings? Don’t you think that if your cravings didn’t flare up you could more easily stay on your choice of healthy foods? If you didn’t crave anything, then you wouldn’t be putting the extra calories in your body. To say nothing of the sugar, sodium, and fat! Also, you wouldn’t be losing control and lowering your self-esteem. Dealing with your cravings should make your weight loss easier to attain.
Cravings can also be controlled with one of these methods:
1. Hypnotherapy can help your subconscious mind find the reason for your cravings. Once your subconscious has figured it out, your conscious mind can then control this emotional connection to eating a food you crave.
2. Emotional Freedom Technique, also known as Tapping, can help you to change the negative energy in your body to a positive energy. When this happens, your cravings go away and you have a neutral reaction to the food that you crave.
Cravings are hard for most people. When you are craving something, you lose control of the situation. Don’t let that happen. At least grab a glass of water. Make yourself drink the whole thing before you give in. You will find that this is the beginning of being in control
Then maybe you will check out the alternative options above. They can show you how to be successful!
Here is an excellent resource to learn more about Emotional Freedom Technique and how it can help you to Stop Your Food Cravings. The writer, Jeanene Fisher, has written several original e-books and articles about weight loss and other self-improvement topics as well as being an at home entrepreneur. She is also an EFT Practitioner.