Cravings!!!
emmasmiles0203
Posts: 12 Member
I'm having a chocolate craving big time!!
Help!!
Help!!
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Hey,
You don't have to deprive yourself. Instead of having a whole bar have a half? I'm sure you can fit it into your daily allotted calories.
Today is pancake day and you can be sure I'll be having pancakes and nuttela. Why? Because I enjoy it... Just in moderation:-)
Shaun.0 -
Two options:
If you never want craving again... don't eat it again.
If you want cravings for the rest of your life... eat it.
Chocolate is manufactured to make you a good consumer for the economy. If everyone ate the apples from the tree in their garden the share holders at Cadburys would be homeless. It messes up your bodys natural rhythm and you will always battle with it. Work out what your body nutritionally needs and give it that. If you stopped eating it your body would only ever crave the real nutrients you need and you would get the same pleasure eating an apple as you do now with chocolate.
Just my opinion but worth a thought.0 -
Two options:
If you never want craving again... don't eat it again.
If you want cravings for the rest of your life... eat it.
Chocolate is manufactured to make you a good consumer for the economy. If everyone ate the apples from the tree in their garden the share holders at Cadburys would be homeless. It messes up your bodys natural rhythm and you will always battle with it. Work out what your body nutritionally needs and give it that. If you stopped eating it your body would only ever crave the real nutrients you need and you would get the same pleasure eating an apple as you do now with chocolate.
Just my opinion but worth a thought.
Or option 3 - fit in a portion of chocolate, enjoy it and stop depriving yourself of delicious food which helps many people with cravings as it's no longer off limits.
If I ate a apple every time instead of eating chocolate I would decide to quit, annoy every one around me and miss out on some really good food.0 -
I have found this little mind trick to be helpful...I tell myself I can only have it if I stay under calories AND if I meet most of my nutritional goals (macros) for the day - esp. iron and protein.
I also find that if I have a craving for something that may not be the best choice, I allow myself to have it after I drink a glass or two of water and wait a few minutes. Sometimes the craving goes away.
But sometimes you just have to have it. I do not want chocolate very often - a few times a year maybe - and sometimes, it's just so enjoyable to have. I try to have something I can savor - like a few Hershey's kisses that I let just melt in my mouth, slowly. Mmm. Usually satisfies the urge.
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Two options:
If you never want craving again... don't eat it again.
If you want cravings for the rest of your life... eat it.
Chocolate is manufactured to make you a good consumer for the economy. If everyone ate the apples from the tree in their garden the share holders at Cadburys would be homeless. It messes up your bodys natural rhythm and you will always battle with it. Work out what your body nutritionally needs and give it that. If you stopped eating it your body would only ever crave the real nutrients you need and you would get the same pleasure eating an apple as you do now with chocolate.
Just my opinion but worth a thought.
Wut?0 -
Eat chocolate-make room in your allotment, log it, move on.0
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Two options:
If you never want craving again... don't eat it again.
If you want cravings for the rest of your life... eat it.
Chocolate is manufactured to make you a good consumer for the economy. If everyone ate the apples from the tree in their garden the share holders at Cadburys would be homeless. It messes up your bodys natural rhythm and you will always battle with it. Work out what your body nutritionally needs and give it that. If you stopped eating it your body would only ever crave the real nutrients you need and you would get the same pleasure eating an apple as you do now with chocolate.
Just my opinion but worth a thought.
Nah, things don't have to be so opposite end of the spectrum.0 -
Two options:
If you never want craving again... don't eat it again.
If you want cravings for the rest of your life... eat it.
Chocolate is manufactured to make you a good consumer for the economy. If everyone ate the apples from the tree in their garden the share holders at Cadburys would be homeless. It messes up your bodys natural rhythm and you will always battle with it. Work out what your body nutritionally needs and give it that. If you stopped eating it your body would only ever crave the real nutrients you need and you would get the same pleasure eating an apple as you do now with chocolate.
Just my opinion but worth a thought.
Yeah, no.0 -
Wait what?!?!Two options:
If you never want craving again... don't eat it again.
If you want cravings for the rest of your life... eat it.
Chocolate is manufactured to make you a good consumer for the economy. If everyone ate the apples from the tree in their garden the share holders at Cadburys would be homeless. It messes up your bodys natural rhythm and you will always battle with it. Work out what your body nutritionally needs and give it that. If you stopped eating it your body would only ever crave the real nutrients you need and you would get the same pleasure eating an apple as you do now with chocolate.
Just my opinion but worth a thought.
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Two options:
If you never want craving again... don't eat it again.
If you want cravings for the rest of your life... eat it.
Chocolate is manufactured to make you a good consumer for the economy. If everyone ate the apples from the tree in their garden the share holders at Cadburys would be homeless. It messes up your bodys natural rhythm and you will always battle with it. Work out what your body nutritionally needs and give it that. If you stopped eating it your body would only ever crave the real nutrients you need and you would get the same pleasure eating an apple as you do now with chocolate.
Just my opinion but worth a thought.
What if I don't have an apple tree in my garden? What then? Do I just eat acorns then, because I have plenty of those...0 -
Having a small portion of chocolate occasionally isn't gonna kill you. Stick with dark chocolate if you like it. You won't eat as much, and it has a bit of health benefits vs. milk chocolate.0
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Cadbury Flake is the best stuff on earth.
UK people get all the good stuff. :grumble:
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PrizePopple wrote: »Cadbury Flake is the best stuff on earth.
UK people get all the good stuff. :grumble:
And now I want a flake, Thanks for that.
(though I am lucky as I can get one)0 -
Iron_Feline wrote: »PrizePopple wrote: »Cadbury Flake is the best stuff on earth.
UK people get all the good stuff. :grumble:
And now I want a flake, Thanks for that.
(though I am lucky as I can get one)
Now I want one, oh I can order a case from Amazon! I feel it's my duty we wouldn't want those cadbury share holders homeless0 -
PrizePopple wrote: »Cadbury Flake is the best stuff on earth.
UK people get all the good stuff. :grumble:
And just to confirm - it really is the crumbliest, flakiest milk chocolate!!!
And it does - taste like chocolates never tasted before!
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Iron_Feline wrote: »PrizePopple wrote: »Cadbury Flake is the best stuff on earth.
UK people get all the good stuff. :grumble:
And now I want a flake, Thanks for that.
(though I am lucky as I can get one)
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I'm just going to leave this here. Because it's my favorite.
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GiveMeCoffee wrote: »Two options:
If you never want craving again... don't eat it again.
If you want cravings for the rest of your life... eat it.
Chocolate is manufactured to make you a good consumer for the economy. If everyone ate the apples from the tree in their garden the share holders at Cadburys would be homeless. It messes up your bodys natural rhythm and you will always battle with it. Work out what your body nutritionally needs and give it that. If you stopped eating it your body would only ever crave the real nutrients you need and you would get the same pleasure eating an apple as you do now with chocolate.
Just my opinion but worth a thought.
Or option 3 - fit in a portion of chocolate, enjoy it and stop depriving yourself of delicious food which helps many people with cravings as it's no longer off limits.
If I ate a apple every time instead of eating chocolate I would decide to quit, annoy every one around me and miss out on some really good food.
agree. apples are not chocolate. and as a (recovering) binge eater, and weight loss maintainer, I can tell you WITH CONFIDENCE, that eating 5 apples and THEN caving into the chocolate bar is more calories than just eating the bar by itself.
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OP, have a sensible portion of chocolate, and move on. There's no need to over think this ( or worry about Apple trees and stock holders at cadbury lol!) Just use portion control and you'll be fine0
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Two options:
If you never want craving again... don't eat it again.
If you want cravings for the rest of your life... eat it.
Chocolate is manufactured to make you a good consumer for the economy. If everyone ate the apples from the tree in their garden the share holders at Cadburys would be homeless. It messes up your bodys natural rhythm and you will always battle with it. Work out what your body nutritionally needs and give it that. If you stopped eating it your body would only ever crave the real nutrients you need and you would get the same pleasure eating an apple as you do now with chocolate.
Just my opinion but worth a thought.
Chocolate is manufactured to be sweet, and to the tastes of the culture it is being produced in, yes. It is manufactured to have specific qualities that make it addictive. All manufactured food does. This is called marketing. You make a product people want, and if you can get science to help you out, foods that people will crave.
However, it does not "mess up biological rhythms"-that's pure tin foil hat BS spoken by people who have no background in biochemistry and a vague understanding of science. In simple terms, all sugar, any kind, including the apple from that tree, has an effect on your body's chemistry. Our bodies crave carbs and fats because we need them to survive, and our bodies are greedy to keep us alive. Your body always fears the famine that may come and has not yet evolved out of that fear (there are still starving people in the world, so it's obviously still a needed trait), so high calorie foods, especially after they have been introduced into the diet, will be craved when you are starving yourself (which is what every diet is-purposeful famine).
Sugars are especially sought after, because they can be used so quickly by the body and assists in fat storage, so when the next famine comes we can survive. Studies in the last few years in fact have shown that fructose, the sugar from the apple, seems to trigger your body to store fat FASTER than the other forms of sugar do. It's postulated this is due to it being more available in nature, in the form of ripened fruit, and it's why to fructose substitute kick died so quickly. Hard to tell people something is better for them because it's natural, when it makes them fatter.
And don't even get me started on "natural."
There's also very little evidence that suggest nutrition is the issue. In fact, there's so little evidence that after searching for half an hour, I was unable to find one article with any citation from an actual academic journal or respected nutritionist or medical worker. However, it may be a sign of insulin issues, and cravings for sweets often come attached to drops and rises in insulin, and if it is a constant craving for sweet stuff you should talk to your doctor.
There is no proof that cutting a food from your diet will make you stop craving it. In fact, most studies say only a very small portion of the population find this to be true.
Cutting can be good for you, and you may find that the craving for your favorite snack dies when you try it again. For instance, I used to love Coke, but having minimized sugar in my diet for 4 months, it tastes grossly sweet now and I don't like it anymore. In other words, you might find yourself Pavlov'ed out of a craving after some time.
The general consensus in the nutrition and medical fields is moderation. Deny yourself and sabotage your diet, or give yourself a treat in a very small portion, and fill up with other, healthy snacks in the process. Like eat the apple with a half serving of peanut butter. Or eat a salad and then slowly savor your piece or two of chocolate. Go for high quality substitutes to favorite candies. A truffle bought in the chocolate shop versus a king size Snickers bar.
If you'd like to learn more about how your body uses sugar, I recommend these free articles. If you have access to a campus library, I'd go there instead, as they have much more available to them.
http://jn.nutrition.org/content/133/3/835S.full
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/humansciences/content/carbohydrate0 -
PrizePopple wrote: »Cadbury Flake is the best stuff on earth.
UK people get all the good stuff. :grumble:
You can usually find Flakes in your local Euro market, usually right next to the Kinder bars. We have the in Wegmans here in upstate NY, and that's a chain grocer. I personally didn't like them, because of the texture. 0 -
Here's what I would do.. It depends what kind of chocolate you're craving. It may be a sign, that your body needs iron or magnesium. Definitely don't make a vending machine mistake. Cheat yourself by getting a 100% cocoa powder or 90% dark chocolate and make skim milk hot chocolate sweetened with stevia.0
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I feel you 200%. I'm craving junk food and starting to feel annoyed by everything around me. I tried to trick my self breaking my skinny cows on half a little now some later. I hope I get past this feeling. Week 3 no junk food..uggh0
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Thanks every1 for ur thoughts and advice, and thanks also for the pics of chocolate lol:). What iv decided 2 do is try and go most of the week without junk food then treat myself on the weekend, not go crazy but just not be as strict and I'm finding it works quite well for the moment. I'm a big believer in moderation 2, I think anything 2 excess is bad for you.0
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I eat chocolate every day...pretty much. It's not a big deal, I live an active lifestyle and fit it in. To me, life is too short to not enjoy your food. And I love apples - I eat one just about every day. But I guess I'm going to have my apple and eat my chocolate too.0
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