Teasing Your Craving Can Make You Eat More!
Learn Easy Tips On How To Reduce Your Cravings!
When it comes to cravings, I know all about them. I crave sweets almost every single day! Occasionally I crave salt and must have potato chips too, but mostly it’s sugar. And it’s not always about chocolate for me. Sometimes my cravings are very specific, like one day I really needed a coffee cake, and that’s when I found the recipe for Easy Sour Cream Coffee Cake, which I posted on this site. Well, today I found a great article on RealAge.com that talks about why teasing your craving with just a little taste can actually cause you to develop even more cravings! The article is awesome because it gives you tips on how to reduce your food cravings. Here’s the explanation:
GOT A CRAVING? FORGET MODERATION
Just a tiny taste of a treat and you’ll be able to put the craving out of your head for good, right?
Nope. Leave the ice cream carton in the freezer. Put the bag of mini chocolates down. Don’t even look at them. In a study, just one taste of a treat triggered more indulgences a mere 25 minutes later.
Once people had a taste of an indulgence — such as a chocolate truffle — it awakened a need for more goodies. And things snowballed. They started craving things like ice cream, pizza, and potato chips. And only once the urge to indulge had been satisfied did the study participants focus once again on healthy foods like carrots, whole-wheat bread, low-fat yogurt, and pears.
For Raging Cravings . . .
Everyone craves comfort foods now and then. Just don’t act on those urges every time. Try these strategies for nipping a case of the munchies in the bud:
Eat an egg breakfast. Not only are eggs a good protein source, but they may help you pass up junk food later in the day, too.
Eat your three squares. When you skip meals, your taste buds will have a yen for the sweet and salty.
Grab a bit of whole-wheat bread and olive oil. The fats in olive oil turn off your hunger.
This is just an excerpt from the awesome article…you can indulge in the entire thing by clicking here.