One of the hardest things to control when you are on a diet are food cravings. Because you are already denying yourself some foods you automatically start longing for them. Have you noticed that you always crave the foods you are not allowed to eat. So how do I control cravings for these foods when I am on a diet.
The first thing I do is make foods that I crave unavailable or at least difficult to get hold of. Get rid of all the foods that are not permitted on your diet from your kitchen. I know that your family will be missing oiut as well but they will know the reasons why.
The second thing to do is surround yourself with permitted foods that you can freely snack. For a low GI diet you can stop your cravings with fruit and fresh vegetables. If you were on the Atkins style diet you could have some cold meat in the fridge.
The problem of course is that will not stop you craving for the wrong foods. You might be eating a fresh carrot to stop your craving but you mind is thinking about a bar of chocolate. What you have to do is train your mind to crave the good foods instead of the bad ones.
To start with choose a fruit that you enjoy eating. Take the humble apple. Many fruits seem humdrum and ordinary like the eating apple. What I do is say to myself that It is not just an apple. I picture it as a crunchy fresh apple with a glossy red skin that has a bright sweet tangy flavour. You can almost taste it now. By picturing your allowed food in this way again and again you will find yourself craving the right sort of food.
To try this with another fruit imagine a mandarin. Think of it like this. This mandarin just falls out of its peel and smells of the juice that it contains. When you bite into it the mandarin juice floods your taste buds with fantastic flavour. If you really cannot stop eating the wrong food you should start training your mind in this way.
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