A simple technique to control food cravings

totaldetermination
totaldetermination Posts: 1,184 Member
edited November 22 in Health and Weight Loss
This article describes an experiment which tested the theory that imagining yourself eating chocolate could reduce your chocolate cravings.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33690211

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  • Mycophilia
    Mycophilia Posts: 1,225 Member
    Great, now I really want chocolate.
  • lrachel011
    lrachel011 Posts: 34 Member
    That actually works for me. I imagine myself eating the food, the feeling and texture, chewing it and the taste etc. Then I realise that it's just too much effort and the taste will only lasts a little while and it doesn't even taste or feel good in my mouth anyway. So then I can't be bothered eating it... Maybe I'm just weird.
  • rachelbouc
    rachelbouc Posts: 65 Member
    I've seen other posts on here saying that if you crave a certain food you're deficient in a certain mineral/vitamin. So I could see this working, but if what I mentioned it true, is it really helping? Besides, a square of 70% dark chocolate is about 60 calories. If I'm craving it (especially during the TOM) I give into the square of chocolate and move on. Otherwise I go crazy.
  • ExRelaySprinter
    ExRelaySprinter Posts: 874 Member
    totaldetermination wrote: »
    This article describes an experiment which tested the theory that imagining yourself eating chocolate could reduce your chocolate cravings.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33690211

    I just eat the Chocolate, log it and move on.
    But great, if this helps other people!
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