So-called "craving busters"

Kazenouta
Kazenouta Posts: 27
in Health and Weight Loss
I'm hoping that some or many of you will have experienced the problem of cravings and them taking over almost. Especially when I'm trying to change my nutritional lifestyle I get really bad cravings for processed, crappy food. I'm wondering if anyone knows of anything to bust cravings or to at least distract from them. A lot of these comes down to self-control I'm sure but that's seems like something I have to learn.

Any advice would be warmly welcomed.

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  • cristenjo
    cristenjo Posts: 35 Member
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  • cbevan1229
    cbevan1229 Posts: 326 Member
    Sometimes the answer is to just budget a serving of the food you are craving into your meal plan for the day. I have found, though, that the longer I east *mostly* healthy, the less I enjoy the processed stuff when I have it. I recently had some Cheddar Chex Mix, which I used to love, but I found that the powdered processed fake cheese just did not taste good.
  • anna_lisa
    anna_lisa Posts: 486 Member
    try to stay away from the empty calories that are often found in processes foods. Try protein or high fiber will keep you feeling fuller longer. But I have had success in cutting or reducing cravings to almost NONE with incorporating protein with all meals and snacks and trying to reduce simple carbs and refined sugars and limited natural sugars
  • cmayoung
    cmayoung Posts: 38 Member
    Sometimes the answer is to just budget a serving of the food you are craving into your meal plan for the day.

    That's what I do. I just try to keep it at a minimum. Funny thing is that after awhile, I don't really crave that stuff anymore (except ice cream!)
  • sun33082
    sun33082 Posts: 416 Member
    Sometimes the answer is to just budget a serving of the food you are craving into your meal plan for the day. I have found, though, that the longer I east *mostly* healthy, the less I enjoy the processed stuff when I have it. I recently had some Cheddar Chex Mix, which I used to love, but I found that the powdered processed fake cheese just did not taste good.

    I had this experience with Kraft Mac n Cheese. I never ate it much to begin with (always made homemade) but every once in a while I'd get a craving and it would taste so good. A few months ago I got a craving for it after not having it for over 2 years probably, and it just tasted blah and fake. I threw it out.
  • zenchild
    zenchild Posts: 680 Member
    Go cold turkey as much as possible. It's like withdrawal. Once you get through the first few days it gets easier.
    I've noticed that if I have just a little bit of crappy food, I immediately want more. Lots more. I've made substitutions as much as possible. Homemade baked goods instead of store-bought, a little bit of very high quality dark chocolate instead of a whole candy bar, frozen Greek yogurt instead of ice cream, healthy adjustments to favorite recipes.
  • DaysFlyBy
    DaysFlyBy Posts: 243 Member
    For me craving a food is like having a song stuck in my head, it won't go away until I indulge it. So I just work it in. I've been on a cottage cheese and pineapple kick lately. I tried fat free cottage cheese, gag. I tried low fat cottage cheese, meh. Nothing but 4% large curd cottage cheese would suffice. So I just went with it and worked it in every day. It's been about a month now and I think I'm finally getting over it. If you keep it within your budget I'd say just go with it, srsly, unless you have your heart set on eating ”clean”, then I don't know what to tell you because I have no desire to go down that path. Good luck. :)

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