Image from Jenna Weber’s Blog: http://trueslant.com/jennaweber/ —- Recently I was reading about cravings and what causes them?… Why was I doing this?…Well part of the Flat Belly Fast Method is how to get control of your cravings…that the techniques you learn in the method can cause you to overcome them. Like magic, almost. So you get to beat food cravings…even the BIG ones like chocolate cravings and cake cravings… Now I know this might sound like a “Magic Bullet” too far but I can honestly tell you hand on heart that one really weird consequence of changing how I ate…doing [...]
Following on from the last post…the key to beating food cravings, like chocolate cravings and cake cravings…is to develop better eating habits…rather than spend time trying to use psychology and mental images or going for “cleansing” walks… No. Just develop better habits and see the cravings disappear!!! Now that may sound like a real task but it isn’t as hard as it seems… Let me explain some of the background. One of the foundations of becoming more organised and productive when it comes to work or play or whatever you decide to commit to, is changing your behaviour to help [...]
The biggest mistake that you can make when dealing with food cravings is trying to force yourself NOT to have something… By this I mean, when the urge comes and you consciously tell yourself or force yourself to not eat some “bad” food or drink that “bad” drink. You know how that feels? That “forcing” yourself. The concentration…the way your chest gets a bit tighter and you need to get up and move away from the chocolate.. Or when you feel yourself having a hard time concentrating on work…you NEED to eat that bit of cake..but no, no, NO I [...]
This post is a short one because I want to focus on one really big idea. When you want to get a handle on cravings you need to get to the real heart of it…the process you go through. The motions that when you are doing them you know and feel is a craving coming. And to be clear here: in my experience this is some sort of automatic sequence where you get the urge to eat that food you crave…and your body just follows. And it’s this motion that goes by another name: a habit! …And luckily habits can [...]
From the last time I had you do a little thought exercise where you imagined what you do when you have a CRAVING… As in what happens when you get that urge…what are the motions and the actions? And what happens when you ALWAYS have that moment when you just give in a reach for the chocolate or cake… Well, there is a simple technique, but not an altogether easy one at the start…I have to say…where you use this moment to start to Unlink the Craving Sequence… You see a lot of research into cravings shows that there is [...]
