Stop Craving Chocolate: 2009

Thursday, 24 September 2009

I Am Trying So Hard To Stop Craving Chocolate

If you want to stop craving chocolate some people recommend having just a little
of the food you are craving.

The problem is that if you are indeed sugar-sensitive, a "little bit" just primes your brain chemistry to want more.

It would be like an alcoholic having one drink. If this sounds like you, having "just a little" is really not a great solution. On the other hand, if you are the kind of person who can really have just a drop of the craved food and be done with it, then I say go for it.

However, I haven't met many people battling weight and sugar addictions who can really do that. Our brain chemistry's are just not set up for the kind of "moderation" that works with people who are not wired the way we are.

Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Solutions to Stop Craving Chocolate

I also had a problem with chocolate cravings and I tried all sorts of solutions to stop chocolate cravings. And noting really worked that well for me until I came across few online sites that offered valuable solutions and treatments that really helped me. Since then I have lost 5 pounds.

I was advised to find some other reward, something that really made me happy. I found that taking a really luxurious bath and pampering works real well. Yet another trick is to simply wait 15 minutes. Most cravings -- at least the worst part of them -- have a short life and will diminish significantly if you can hold out for just a while.

Drinking a lot of water helps, as does eating something salty or spicy.

Sunday, 20 September 2009

How To Stop Craving Chocolate

If the food you crave like chocolate or anything sweet, is associated with more pleasure in the immediate moment than it is with pain, it's going to be hard to stop eating it. So now the question has to be:

How does that short-term pleasure stack up against the long-term pain of eating food that makes you fatter.

If you really want to stop craving chocolate, there are tricks you can use.

One is to restructure what constitutes a "reward" for a bad day in your mind. If you choose to not binge on chocolate, instead of thinking of that as a deprivation, trying seeing it as a gift -- because in turning down that binge food, you're actually giving yourself the gift of good health and a leaner fitter body.

Sure, that body isn't going to arrive tomorrow, and the chocolate is here right now, but think of it as you do frequent-flier miles: Save up those little gifts, and after a while you really have something worthwhile.