If you eat clean, your cravings go away

TOPIC: If you eat clean, your cravings for junk food go away. :laugh:
I'm still craving on healthy food once in a while :laugh:

To simply put, I think you are right in a way - we are no longer interested in that. I can testify, I'm no longer drinking sodas, or kilotons of chips. But the craving itself still exists, and thank god it does. We just like enjoying eating more something we like :-)

I believe this too, I don't even look twice at the junk food at the store anymore, sometimes I crave something sweet, and I will go for yogurt or something like that, but I dont crave cookies and chips anymore. any food that I crave, I will make a healthier recipe of it at home, and it usually tastes better to me.

How long did it take for you to stop craving junk food?

You're right, eating better does make your cravings go away, to an extent though, I still crave "unhealthy" food from time to time, but just eat it in moderation so I don't go insane. But that being said, I hit my goal weight and am not trying to lose anymore.

If you read Potatoes Not Prozac you will find that there is scientific evidence for what you've experienced.

I look at it sort of like a scale. One end is super salty, one is super sweet. We eat something salty, and the body craves something sweet to balance it out, but it never really does and we are constantly craving something to fix the extreme of our food choice. Eating clean evens out the playing field and our body is satisfied. :happy:

How long did it take for you to stop craving junk food?

It took me about a week to stop craving junk food. Although, everyone once in a while I feel like eating something that would give me a heart attack or a little bit of dessert.

I agree, I stopped eating anything with sugar three weeks ago and I don't crave them, I'm very AFRAID to try anything sweet or even white bread, it's so difficult for me to stop.

AMEN, AMEN, AMEN............................this is so true. Please watch the movie Forks over Knives

I was just talking about this. I eat a very "clean" vegetarian diet, with minimal processed foods. I can't remember the last time I craved chocolate or chips/cookies. If I need something sweet, I twill have soy yogurt. My kids made a cake from scratch last night and I didn't want any of it. That never happens. I have 25 boxes of girl scout cookies I need to sell in the house and I haven't opened one sleeve. I crave things like spinach and kale. It's the strangest thing ever. If you ever watch any of those food documentaries you will see that all the processed stuff/fast food had chemicals to actually make you become addicted, so it makes sense.

Its all psychology. Basically, humans eat out of habit (we never eat anything unfamiliar) so the more often you eat junk, that is what your body is going to want (eat ice cream and frozen tastes awful). But if you stick with it you CAN change this.

This is why teaching your children how to eat properly is CRITICAL.

Plus, I've noticed that fast food and bad foods don't taste good to me anymore, I CRAVE my healthy meals now and would MUCH have them over the crap

I believe this, also.Before I get out of bed I'm thinking of drinking water before pop. Healthier food stays with me so much longer,too.

Biology or microscopics confirms your theory. If we overeat something - say sodium or sugar - each cell in our body has to work that much harder and expends much more energy to try and regulate the body to put it back in balance. After it does this only a surprising few times, if the sodium or sugar intake goes down, the cells cry out for more to do. That is the biology of the body that the industrialized for-profit food industry exploits to get us to keep eating more of their unhealthy stuff and less of the healthy nutrients that nature intended. Once we unhook from the death-support that industrialized food keeps us on, it doesn't take long for our bodies to adapt and love us and our brains to rewire.

Conversely, we only have to throw caution to the wind food-wise for 6 or 7 days before the new wiring snaps and we are back on the path of salt and sugar addiction.

Keep with the healthy foods! Also, I find that drinking for two days nettle tea (combined with a mint or something else too) absolutely drives away craving for junk food.

-Debra

That is probably true what you are saying about eating clean. The only problem is when it gets around my monthly time. That is when the cravings come most of all.