Theory About Cravings
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This is an interesting conversation.
I don't crave much of anything anymore, but I can recall having huge cravings before I lost weight when I didn't allow myself to eat certain kinds of foods. Since I have been allowing myself to eat whatever I want, the cravings have disappeared. All I can say is my diet is much more rounded than it was before.
Last real craving I had was during Lent when I wasn't eating meat. I was craving lamb (which I think is because I was specifically planning on lamb at Easter). I don't find cravings impossible to resist, though.0 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »my theory on cravings is that people generally enjoy pleasure and pleasurable things...thus they crave them.
stop using common sense!0 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »This is an interesting conversation.
I don't crave much of anything anymore, but I can recall having huge cravings before I lost weight when I didn't allow myself to eat certain kinds of foods. Since I have been allowing myself to eat whatever I want, the cravings have disappeared. All I can say is my diet is much more rounded than it was before.
Last real craving I had was during Lent when I wasn't eating meat. I was craving lamb (which I think is because I was specifically planning on lamb at Easter). I don't find cravings impossible to resist, though.
Neither do I. I think, like SLLRunner, my bad cravings in the past were tied to denial.
Now that I allow myself to eat what I'd like? Well, I get a "taste" for things, or feel like having them, but I wouldn't call it a craving compared to what I used to experience.0 -
The only craving I have experienced because of a deficiency is ice. Lots and lots of ice when my iron level was 00
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I don't usually crave sweets... sometimes gummi bears or sour gummi candy like sour patch kids. I think it is more because I love them and don't eat them very often. In those years of life when I didn't really care about calories I ate a lot of sour patch kids... Wegmans had a bulk candy section with bins and bins of sour gummi candy - it was one of my most favorite things
When the mood strikes I crave spicy foods and I crave sushi when I'm really hungry.
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Craving chocolate eat magnesium
craving sweets eat more chromium phosphorus sulfur and tryptophan like oily fish cheese nuts legumes liver
Craving oily snacks you need more calcium
Craving coffee or tea you may be low in iron phosphorus sulfur
Chewing ice usually iron deficient
Premenstrual craving eat more zinc
You should eat whole foods and not take a pill to cure your cravings while your body may know what you are missing you will reach for whats familiar being on a regular processed food heavy diet will lead to mild malnutrition
Food cravings may be overwhelmingly strong and there is nothing wrong in a little indulgence if i crave cheese i would rather have some and stop obsessing over it0 -
PeachyCarol wrote: »I think I don't put much stock in this theory unless you have pica.
Yes this !
When I was pregnant my doctor wanted to hear all aBout what foods I craved. When I asked him why?? He said, because people with pica will crave certain foods so I have to ask to try to see if your at risk for this . he went on to say it was only about gathering info to try to spot people with pica and that normal cravings are nothing to worry about. I wasn't eating anything odd but a lady in the waiting room once told me that she craved mulch. She may have had pica, but I didn't ask. I just moved off of the topic because of her strange reply .
For the most part besides people with pica , I'm sure some people will use their cravings as an excuse for poor self control. People love to have an excuse rather then dealing with the issue. When someone truly knows moderation and portion control, they can handle cravings with no big deal. Tonight I wanted ice cream, I had a serving within my calories and macros. No big deal. Portion control works 0 -
I'll say one thing for evolution: she's very crafty. All those millions of years of working toward driving me toward Whataburger and Tex-Mex.0
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I dunno. I don't get cravings for calorie dense, nutrient void foods. I want those foods, but it isn't a craving. They just sound good.
The only time I've had cravings, it's been for veggies or fruits. Doesn't happen often, so I usually indulge. Doesn't mean that cravings represent needs, though!0 -
beemerphile1 wrote: »It is true that cravings are your body needing a particular nutrient, not to be confused with your mind having a desire for a succulent delicacy. For instance, people that chew ice often do so because they have an iron deficiency (anemia).
No. People that have an iron deficiency often chew ice, but it is not correct to say people that chew ice often do so because they are deficient in iron. There are far more people that chew ice than there are iron deficient people.
Nor is there any proof that people are doing so to get iron to fill the deficiency. While it is statistically know that it happens, there is no explanation yet for why anemia tends to increase ice chewing. It also doesn't make evolutionary sense to me - I do not imagine humans would have evolved with easy access to ice.0 -
I saw somewhere that high processed food consumption leads to being hungry more often and those items contain sugar/HFCs and or sugar subs which in turn tell your brain to crave more once you get low in sugar. Just as a junkie cops next high.0
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Also see hungry for change and food matters documentaries which go into it a little also fed up was specific to the sugar crisis.0
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Sometimes some people's bodies just need a good cigarette?0
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snickerscharlie wrote: »I crave a nice big whopper of a chocolate bar. With nuts. Does that mean I'm crazy?
Well, what'ya know. This is for you.....
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Cravings are for things that bump your dopamine. That can be seafood or Snickers.
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There may be some truth to that if you crave something like bananas for potassium or nuts for zinc, etc..., but certainly not cravings for sweets or junk food that don't contain much nutritionally.
Craving magnesium or calcium is a legitimate craving, but craving sugar or desserts or anything deep fried or crispy is just a lame excuse to eat what you like instead of what you need.
Some people may even say those for sugar and similar low nutritional foods are addictions (real, habitual, or psychological) which technically could be called cravings, though we should all recognize the difference between craving heroin and craving dark leafy greens.0 -
Not exactly an original thought.0
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motterotter wrote: »Craving chocolate eat magnesium
craving sweets eat more chromium phosphorus sulfur and tryptophan like oily fish cheese nuts legumes liver
Craving oily snacks you need more calcium
Craving coffee or tea you may be low in iron phosphorus sulfur
Chewing ice usually iron deficient
Premenstrual craving eat more zinc
You should eat whole foods and not take a pill to cure your cravings while your body may know what you are missing you will reach for whats familiar being on a regular processed food heavy diet will lead to mild malnutrition
Food cravings may be overwhelmingly strong and there is nothing wrong in a little indulgence if i crave cheese i would rather have some and stop obsessing over it
Yeah, 'cause nothing cures a sweet tooth like a nice big piece of liver! LMAO.
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snickerscharlie wrote: »motterotter wrote: »Craving chocolate eat magnesium
craving sweets eat more chromium phosphorus sulfur and tryptophan like oily fish cheese nuts legumes liver
Craving oily snacks you need more calcium
Craving coffee or tea you may be low in iron phosphorus sulfur
Chewing ice usually iron deficient
Premenstrual craving eat more zinc
You should eat whole foods and not take a pill to cure your cravings while your body may know what you are missing you will reach for whats familiar being on a regular processed food heavy diet will lead to mild malnutrition
Food cravings may be overwhelmingly strong and there is nothing wrong in a little indulgence if i crave cheese i would rather have some and stop obsessing over it
Yeah, 'cause nothing cures a sweet tooth like a nice big piece of liver! LMAO.
There is some truth to that. If I even smell or look at liver my appetite for sweets (or anything for that matter) is ruined for the day.0 -
Aversion Therapy. <nods>amusedmonkey wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »motterotter wrote: »Craving chocolate eat magnesium
craving sweets eat more chromium phosphorus sulfur and tryptophan like oily fish cheese nuts legumes liver
Craving oily snacks you need more calcium
Craving coffee or tea you may be low in iron phosphorus sulfur
Chewing ice usually iron deficient
Premenstrual craving eat more zinc
You should eat whole foods and not take a pill to cure your cravings while your body may know what you are missing you will reach for whats familiar being on a regular processed food heavy diet will lead to mild malnutrition
Food cravings may be overwhelmingly strong and there is nothing wrong in a little indulgence if i crave cheese i would rather have some and stop obsessing over it
Yeah, 'cause nothing cures a sweet tooth like a nice big piece of liver! LMAO.
There is some truth to that. If I even smell or look at liver my appetite for sweets (or anything for that matter) is ruined for the day.
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I'll just leave this here to see if anyone disagrees or agrees with it....0 -
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The above list is so random.. I mean you crave tobacco because it's addictive, and carbonated drinks have zero calcium so it wouldn't make any sense to crave it for that. That's just for starters...0
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The only one that makes a little sense is a craving for salt. Mammals need salt (the first known trade between bands of early man was in salt) and I wouldn't be surprised if we still have a remnant of that instinct. Otherwise it is woo.0
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That cravings chart... I can't even. And I'm sorry, that picture with PMS is pretty offensive.0
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PeachyCarol wrote: »That cravings chart... I can't even. And I'm sorry, that picture with PMS is pretty offensive.
Is this one better?
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I crave chocolate because I want chocolate lol0
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I literally starting laughing out loud at PMS Barbie! Her and Dexter would have a really good life together.
Depending on the craving/situation, there seems to be mental and physical cravings. Mental cravings, such as when you're on a restrictive diet and can't have chocolate so you want chocolate ALL THE TIME and physical cravings, such as you're low in iron so you crave red meat. My significant other used to tease me because I'd come home about once a month and say "we need to go out for burgers: now!" I felt a million times better after the burger because my body was low on iron and I don't eat a lot of red meat.0 -
Also, I love that that chart is telling me sun dried olives makes cravings for marijuana go away....wow....just wow....0
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What am I deficient in if my body craves jelly donuts?0
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