How to stop unhealthy food & sugar cravings

If you consider yourself an emotional eater or sugar addict or chocoholic no doubt you frequently wonder “how to control food cravings”?

Is it a case of controlling them or a case of “how to fight food cravings” or, “how to avoid cravings” altogether?

The really interesting thing about Allen Carr’s Easyway is that it not only helps you decide what goes in your mouth – but also what goes on in your head.

What causes food cravings?

Food cravings are caused by a variety of factors including habit or routine, blood sugar levels, and how you feel about food. Or to be precise, how you feel about certain foods. Food cravings feel similar to hunger – but far more powerful. Very few of us have ever had the misfortune to feel real, genuine hunger caused by starvation – the hunger we live with tends to be extremely mild and no more alarming that a feeling that triggers the thought, “I’m a bit peckish”.

Food cravings are far more unpleasant and are caused by foods which manipulate our blood sugar levels – normally refined sugar or processed and starchy carbohydrates. They create a yearning for more – a yearning that can feel overwhelming if you don’t know how to respond to it.

How to control food cravings

Well, that question is wrong isn’t it?

How would you respond to a heroin addict who asked you how they might control their craving for heroin? Or a cocaine addict how they might control their craving for coke?

There are only two choices – they either have to take the drug all day, every day, for the rest of their life – or break free of their addiction.

The same goes for “how to stop hunger cravings”, “how to stop eating junk food” or “how to get rid of sugar cravings”.

The way you stop refined sugar or processed & starchy carbohydrates from causing cravings – is firstly understand why you don’t need them in your body and then to eliminate them from your daily diet.

That’s easier said than done if you don’t have a good guide – but Allen Carr’s Easyway programmes for emotional eating, sugar & carb addiction make it not only easy, but enjoyable to get free.

Top Ten List – most commonly eaten foods that cause cravings

1. 1. Bread
   2. Pizza
   3. Pasta
   4. Chocolate
   5. Cakes & Pastries
   6. Potatoes (chipped, fried, boiled, or baked)
   7. Salted snacks or any type
   8. Doughnuts/Donuts
   9. Confectionary, sweets, candy
   10. Rice

How to reduce food cravings

All the foods that cause cravings have several things in common:

• They contain virtually zero nutritional value (that’s why you can eat endless amounts but still not feel “full up”…the body, quite rightly, doesn’t recognize them as food
• They all have a dramatic effect on your blood sugar levels (they cause upward sugar spikes and downward sugar crashes – your body doesn’t know whether it is coming or going
• They make you moody and angry if you want them but can’t have them

So once you understand what causes the cravings you can then act on “how to curb cravings”

How to get rid of food cravings & how to stop food cravings

People often try to use willpower “to avoid cravings” but dieting with willpower doesn’t really help.

“How to stop hunger cravings?”, “How to not crave food?”, “How to stop eating junk food?” or “How to get rid of sugar cravings?”

Well all diets do is make certain foods seem more precious rather than less precious and tend to make cravings even worse.

The trick is to change the way you think about the foods that make you crave and doing that is easy when you know how.

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Final Thoughts on how to stop cravings

If you understand what foods cause cravings, what foods make you feel hungrier when you eat them rather than satisfied, and how foods that make you crave work to manipulate your blood sugar levels, moods, and emotions, then you are ready to be set free. All you need to do is follow Allen Carr’s Easyway’s guide.

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