How do I control cravings and stop eating to wrong food?
One of the hardest things to control when you are on a diet are food cravings. The fact that your food is restricted makes you want the wrong food all the more. Have you noticed that you always crave the foods you are not allowed to eat. So what do I do to stop my cravings for the wrong foods.
The initial tactic is to avoid contact with the wrong foods and only have good food in the house. Get rid of all the foods that are not permitted on your diet from your kitchen. I know that your family will be missing oiut as well but they will know the reasons why.
The second thing to do is surround yourself with permitted foods that you can freely snack. For a low GI diet you can stop your cravings with fruit and fresh vegetables. If you were on the Atkins style diet you could have some cold meat in the fridge.
The problem of course is that will not stop you craving for the wrong foods. You may be eating something healthy like a stick of celery but your mind is focussed on cheese or bread. What you have to do is train your mind to crave the good foods instead of the bad ones.
The way to do this is first of all choose your favourite fruit. Take the humble apple. Now I like apples and I eat a lot of them but they are what you would call an ordinary food to eat. What I do is say to myself that It is not just an apple. I picture it as a crunchy fresh apple with a glossy red skin that has a bright sweet tangy flavour. Can you taste that apple. By envisioning your food like this repeatedly you will begin to desire and crave good foods.
To try this with another fruit imagine a mandarin. But look at it this way. This mandarin just falls out of its peel and smells of the juice that it contains. When you bite into it the mandarin juice floods your taste buds with fantastic flavour. If you really cannot stop eating the wrong food you should start training your mind in this way.
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