How do you handle the terrible cravings for fatty, delicious, yummy snacks when you're trying to slim down?

Question

Such as extra-sharp cheddar cheese melted over chips? Do you get headaches after the first day or so of smacking down piggish urges?

Answer 1

Don't deny yourself completely, just eat a little bit of the bad stuff followed up by the good for you stuff...or maybe a little bit of the good stuff followed up by the bad stuff...wait maybe that's why I can't slim down!!!

Answer 2

Give yourself 1 time a week to splurge. Do dinner on friday, or lunch saturday or whatever. Just pick 1, and only do that one. Then every time you have a craving plan to indulge it during that 1 occasion. By the end of the week you'll end up having ice cream, nacho's, and a hershey bar, but you'll have forgotten all about the sticky bun, the rasberry pastry, the french fries. This technique has been a lifesaver for me. I don't eat as much in one sitting as I would have if I had indulged 1 time a day all week. I do get headaches from diet changes, but I push them off with asprin and adapt pretty quickly. Good Luck

Answer 3

I am the pro. Ha. I am in the process of trying to lose 100 pounds.
When it comes to extra-sharp cheddar or chips..
Replace it with:
A portioned amount of soy chips covered in low fat extra-sharp cheddar cheese.
BUT MAKE SURE ITS PORTIONED!!!!
only take the proper serving of chips and cheese.. and count your calories!!!

When it comes to Ice Cream..
Replace it with:
A fruit Ice Pop. Normalily around 60-100 calories each depending on the flavor. 0g of Fat!!!
Soooooooo good too.

When it comes to candy try:
Baskin Robbins Sugar Free Smooth and Creamy Hard Candy. They come in Strawberry*Orange*Raspberry or Mint Choc Chip. Or even Sugar Free Nips. Just make sure you check the calories cause not all sugarfree is low in em.

When it comes to Spaghetti and Meatballs with Garlic Bread Try:
Whole Wheat Spaghetti and 99% Lean Turkey Meatballs with Whole Wheat toast spread with margarine and garlic cloves!!!

Its so easy to substitute any meal with something healthier!!!! Trust me!!! If you need any support or just want to talk email me.. [e-mail]. We can do this together.

O yea.. and the sign of a headache just means your body is going through some changes. if it lasts for more than a week somethings wrong. you may not be consuming enough calories. But that doesn't mean eat cake!! Eat an extra apple.. or maybe even drink more water! I try to drink about 85oz a day. Buy a portable refillable water jug and carry it around with you EVERYwhere you go. Sometimes the feeling for hunger is mistaken by thirst!

Answer 4

The key is actually a three prong effort. Your cravings are coming from the insulin crash you are used to. So what you need is a good excercise program (30 min 5x a week) followed up with a healthy low glycemic diet and quality nutritionals. The diet and excercise most people realize but the nutritionals are key because they help your body naturally get rid of toxins. This is from the june of 2002 journal of american medical associates! You are on this roller coaster of cravings and once you get off this track of high glycemic foods your body will recognize them better and actually give you headaches from the junk food. It is because when you eat the foods high in the glycemic index your arteries shrink resulting in headaches. So step one study the glycemic index and step 2 walk brisk and step three find good supplements that are well balanced to give you a great broad spectrum of the synergistic effect your body needs.

Answer 5

See yourself slim. You know when you're cooking a pound of hamburger on the stove for dinner--picture what the meat feels like, the weight of it in your hand as you are putting it in the pan. Guess what? One pound feels that way on your body and looks that big too. Pretty gross, huh! I am on Nutrisystem and not hungry and not craving at all. You should try it! Good luck!

Answer 6

Try to keep your mind off the food. It's a habit you're going to have to kick kind of like smoking or drinking. It's going to be hard. You'll need to distract yourself from the old habits by substituting new healthier ones. Try keeping water around. When you feel like eating something not-so-healthy, drink some water. It will fill you up and you won't be eating.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Eat sweet fruits like oranges, kiwis, mangos, plums etc. They will bite off those cravings.
If they dont, slowly ween yourself off of them.
Ex: If you, lets say, eat one twinkie a day then the next couple of days eat three quartes of a twinkie and throw the rest away or give it to a friend. Dont give in.
Do the same with sodas and other sugary goodies.

Answer 9

your body is starving.... don't starve it... try to follow the current food pyramid diet... www.mypyramid.gov and cut way back on the happy comfort foods.

read the single serving information for this munchy item you wish to devour in... and eat only that.. then when you're hungry again go back to the diet that is well balanced and will fulfill your urges.

OH also hydrate properly.

don't starve the body.. but also moderate fun foods like you mentioned.. big time. exercise shall help too.

and walk, walk and walk.

:D

stick with a diet that doesn't restrict you so badly you nearly die for a donut or whatever.. you won't go crazy and binge then be sorry for it afterwards and feeling like you've destroyed everything you've worked for.

Answer 10

I have always had terrible food cravings - especially sweets. Atkins FINALLY took them away. It was a lifesaver.