Overcoming carbohydrate cravings is the key to staying on a diet – especially low carbohydrate

Overcoming carbohydrate cravings is the key to staying on a diet – especially low carbohydrate

Overcoming your carbohydrate cravings is the key to staying on a low carbohydrate diet. It’s the most important
thing you have to do to be successful in weight loss. Your sweet and starch cravings are natural and increase
over time. They are your body’s way of assuring that you get the vitamins and minerals in fruits and vegetables.
But in order to efficiently lose weight on a low carbohydrate diet, you absolutely can’t eat sweets and starches.
As the magic number is about no more than 10 grams of carbohydrate per feeding, this means you can have
about a cup of a low carbohydrate vegetables per meal, and that’s about it. So, what can you do to control your
sweet and starch cravings? The reality is you have about as much control over your sweet and starch cravings, as
you do over your emotions. When someone punches you in the face, you feel bad. It’s automatic. When a friend
gives you a hug, you feel good. It’s automatic. Carbohydrate cravings are equally out of your control, but worse,
because you never know when they will creep up on you. Sweet and starch cravings naturally increase over time,
the longer you go without eating carbohydrates. Environmental influences also make them worse, but Dairy
Queen and Baskin Robbins are not going to stop advertising. You see a commercial or a picture of a chocolate
sundae on the net, and you start craving ice cream. A friend mentions they had a terrific bowl of spaghetti last
night, and you’re craving pasta. You walk by Cinnabun and smell hot cinnamon rolls, and your craving is almost
automatic. So, how can you control your carbohydrate cravings? What can you do to stay on your low
carbohydrate diet without any cheating? Stay tooned.