You Are Not Your Specific Food Cravings
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Sometimes, when you realize that you’re smack-dab in the middle of a tough problem, you feel as if you are God’s practical joke. You feel caught in a Catch-22 with specific food cravings, for example. Other poor sods are addicted to drugs or drink – no, you never touched the stuff and yet you still became an addict – to food. And, sadly, not just any food will do. No – that would make life too easy. Your specific food cravings are very finicky. It just seems a lot easier to eat the darn specific food you crave rather than deal with the jitters and restless thoughts by denying yourself. You know you’re eating junk, but it makes you feel better. What can you do?
Quite A Lot, Actually
You are experiencing specific food cravings because your body has developed a dependency on certain things in food – such as fat, salt or sugar. Perhaps you were only given ice cream on holidays and family celebrations. Over the years, your unconscious has associated happiness with ice cream. Therefore, you have specific food cravings – in this case, for ice cream.
Even when you eat something else, even cookies or cake, your still have these nagging specific food cravings for ice cream. You might not even be hungry – but darn it, your body is still screaming for ice cream. You can’t concentrate. You can’t sleep. You may even feel stuffed to the gills. But darn it – your body is screaming ICE CREAM. You have to give in and eat ice cream in order to get on with your life…until the next ice cream craving.
You are not doomed to be hooked on ice cream or whatever specific food cravings have a hold of you now. You owe it to your family, your body and your self-confidence to kick these specific food cravings. Say you are hooked on ice cream. What happens if you get diabetes? Are you going to continue eating ice cream? And what if there’s a natural disaster in summer and all the power is knocked out for weeks. You need to survive, not worry about if you’re ever going to eat ice cream ever again.
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
You have learned a habit. Your body has – unconsciously or not – equated happiness with ice cream. You don’t have to go cold turkey. You need to cut down on the food you crave. The first two weeks are the worst. You get over that, and it gets easier to tell the specific food cravings what to go do to yourself. Drink more water. Eat more fiber. Indulge in a hobby, or clean the house. Stay busy those weeks. Try new foods. Your taste buds will be trained to change.
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