Why am I suddenly craving sweets?

Question

What's going on with me?
I usto be really health conscionce(sp?) and I still am but at the same time now i'm more vulnerable to junky foods like peanut butter and chocolate. I haven't gained any weight or anything like that but I don't want to! I don't want to be like my mom or dad(no offense to them.). I don't. I want to be healthy and mantain my weight.

Age:16
Height: 5ft 4.5inches
Weight: 113lbs
Body Fat: 22%
Gender: Female

I lift weights 30-1hour a day and my food intake besides my compulsion with fatty foods with my snacks for the past couple of days involves something like this...

Breakfast- Cereal(Wheaties),Yogert,Water
Snack-- Grapes, 100 cal. teddy grams,water
Lunch-- 1 egg whites sandwhich(wheat bread), corn, chocolate milk(ovaltine),water
Snack--- blueberries,water, 1special k bar(they are good!)
Dinner-- 1 hamburger(wheat), chocolate milk(ovaltine), carrots
Snack- Cereal(wheaties),yogert and water.

Why am I craveing fatty foods all of asuden?

I know for sure i'm not pregnant because I never had sex.

Remember this is just an example of what I might eat. I don't ovisally eat them every single day. So a lot of times i'll have greenbeans instead of corn or carrots.

I take CENTRUM PERFORMANCE multi-vitamin everyday before I go to bed(which is usually 9:30ish PM)

Answer 1

i usually start craving for sweets when my period is about to come. thats how i know im getting it soon.

Answer 2

couldn't tell you why the change, but be prepared for it to be permanent. you may need to just start telling yourself "no" if you don't want to end up like your folks.

diet looks great though... replace that beef with other meat... you don't want to be eating beef very often. You are slightly carb-heavy (the chocolate milks tip the scale) but that's fine if you are generally active. (the more sweets you eat, the more cravings you'll get, in general)

try a multivitamin with the meal previous to your workout. also do a shot of olive oil every now and then, or take fish oil.

I once read that if you crave sweets, your bowel yeast (candida albicens) is overgrowing.

p.s. Renate is right, where are your leafy greens? Mass-consume spinach and have some broccoli with your green beans.

Answer 3

Where are the vegetables in your diet? This is not a good diet

Corn and carrots are okay but what about green vegetables.

You are not getting the right nutrients


Teddy Grahams are not nutritious

Nuts are full of B vitamins which you see to be lacking

Chocolate is a woman thing

You eat too much cereal and crabs and not enough veg and meat (white meat chicken)

Answer 4

Food cravings are supposed to be the body's way of telling you that there's something your body needs that it isn't getting. I'm not savvy enough to know what you're missing, but maybe a good multivitamin or some mineral supplements are what you need.

(I'm a diabetic so I know a lot about food cravings, it's my least favorite symptom. Well, after dying from it that is.)

Get one of the books Dr. Weil wrote on diet and vitamins, they seem pretty comprehensive. I'm just beginning one of his programs: 8 Weeks to Optimum Health by Andrew Weil M.D.

Good luck!

Answer 5

Your diet is horrible for a healthy 16 year old. Eat those egg yolks, bacon, sausage, sweets, enjoy life. These diets are nonsense. Eggs have been cleared to eat for years. Your cravings are normal, because you need and miss those things. Where did a girl your age get started on this nonsense. Have bacon and eggs, toast of waffle with butter and syrup for breakfast tomorrow.

Answer 6

Hormones your in your teens their out of control. nice diet by the way

Answer 7

its waht hapens whene u get older ur tast buds change just like the way u look