10 Ways to Cut Your Cravings

Suddenly, it happens, without warning. You crave fistfuls of chocolate-chip cookies and milk. Or maybe some calorie-laden comfort food slathered in gravy. Or maybe a cheeseburger and jumbo
fries. Doesn’t that huge chunk of pecan pie look delicious?

Can you stick to your healthy eating plan under all this pressure? If you follow these steps to control your cravings, you most certainly can try.

Some researchers speculate that you begin craving food when your body lacks needed nutrients. For instance, carbohydrate cravings reported by dietres could mean their meals are too few in calories and their blood sugar levels are low.

According to Boston University’s Nutrition and Weight Management Center, make sure you eat plenty of healthy foods that provide your body with the nutrients needed to function properly. However, if you begin hankering for something not so healthy, here are 10 ways to short-circuit your cravings:

• Avoid triggers. Keep away from certain foods that start your cravings. You’ll find the more you’re away from the foods, the less likely you’ll want them - and you may even start craving the foods you do eat, like fruits and vegetables.

• Destroy temptation. If you’ve given in to a craving, bought one of your trigger foods and feel bad while noshing it, don’t throw it away - destroy it. Rip up the package. Douse it in running water. You’ll get a sense psychologically that you’ve defeated your binge.

• Drink two glasses of water and eat an ounce of nuts to extinguish a craving.

• Sip coffee to quench your appetite rather than that calorie-laden candy bar that beckons you with its siren song.

• Let go of stress, one of the major contributors to cravings. Learn various ways to reduce stress, such as deep-breathing exercises, and relaxation and affirmation techniques.

• Snooze. Cravings can sneak up on you when you’re tired.

• Brush your teeth, garble with mouthwash or chew on a mint to stave off the craving.

• Call a friend, listen to music, run an errand or, better still, exercise when a craving hits.

• Indulge once in awhile. When a craving hits, give in occasionally, but don’t go overboard. Those 100-calorie packs of cookies and candy look healthy, but eating more than one of them is just like eating the old kind of snacks - you’ll get just as many calories and fat.

• Avoid places that pump up your cravings. Got a yen for pizza? Don’t go past the pizza place. Got a hankering for donuts or fried chicken? Avoid the neighborhood with the donut shop and the chicken stand.

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