Understand Your Cravings To Lose Weight Naturally
My father used to tell me when you crave certain types of food it is because your
body needs something in it, and yes I did believe him (especially when I was reaching for that bar of chocolate) but the funny thing is that the more I read about cravings the more Im truly believing what he was telling me.
When we diet we tend to go a matter of days sometimes weeks before any true cravings come about and ten suddenly we are bombarded with them. If were good well have just a little of what we crave but more often than not the little becomes more and then a lot more until were back where we started from in my personal experience (as an experienced dieter and food craver) I have found that the craving I have been left with after a failed diet has been considerably stronger and harder to quench than it was before I went on the diet in the first place.
So why do we have cravings as such? Food cravings are linked to blood sugar levels which is also surprise, surprise linked to mood swings (so in a nutshell we have the sweet cravings (chocolate, cake, ice cream etc), emotional cravings (when youre feeling lonely, bored, tired, stressed, and can also occur in a social environment, there are also many more of these) and also the hormonal cravings (emotional cravings that happen at certain times in the menstrual cycle and are generally a lot stronger).
So how can we combat these cravings? Well we can start by learning what causes them in a sort of concur them before they start kind of way or we can try to deal with them whilst theyre staring us in the face.
All these cravings are linked to our blood sugar levels and this can be one the most important factors of weight loss and maintaining your healthy weight. If you suffer with low blood sugar you will crave sugary snacks and foods. To stabilise this we need to look at your nutritional diet. Sugar (glucose) is taken from food as it is digested and is absorbed into the blood stream. The body takes what it needs for energy and then produces insulin in an attempt to lower the levels of excess glucose, this excess glucose is then turned into glycogen and stored in the liver and muscles for later use. The blood sugar then returns to normal.
So when your blood sugar level gets low your body will automatically turn to your liver and encourage it to change some of its glycogen back into glucose to give us a quick burst of energy. However if the blood sugar stays to low for a period of time (hypoglycaemia) low blood sugar level can occur.
Although when the blood sugar level remains too high (hyperglycaemia) it can be just as harmful to our bodies and extreme cases can turn to diabetes which needs expert medical attention. Obese people are more prone to developing this condition.
Symptoms of this include; tearful moments, lack of sex drive, irritability, aggressiveness, dizziness, confusion, forgetfulness, headaches, palpitations, anxiety, lack of concentration, insomnia, excess sweating, fatigue, muscle cramps and excessive thirst.
Refined foods such as fast foods and over manufactured foods are very quickly digested and will give your sugar levels a quick boast giving you a high, but will often make you feel lower tired and drained very soon afterwards which is when you start craving the foods to give you a high again. This is all very well and it happens to us all but it is not good for our bodies as after a while your body will stop producing the high levels of insulin and will only produce low levels instead leaving a higher amount of sugar in your blood which will be the start of high blood sugar and could end up with diabetes.
So how do we stop this before it gets too serious? Well two of the most widely used refined foods are sugar and white flour, try cutting down on these and upping your consumption of natural whole foods which are unrefined and full of goodness. You could also try and change your eating habits. Instead of eating three large meals a day eat five smaller ones or graze on healthy snacks and have smaller size meals forget about the no snacking rule between meals as long as the snacks are healthy and nutritious snacking is better for your body and overall health.
Dont skip meals you are more lightly to over eat on the meals that you do have. I skipping meals you are causing your body to go into starvation mode (hording your food energy and turning it into fat) and causing yourself to have major blood sugar highs and lows.
by: Q Lawrence
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