Let’s be honest; our food cravings are a part of life. Whether it’s the pie your grandma makes for Thanksgiving or the French fries you crave on your break at work, we all have those moments when we want to do anything other than what we should be doing.
There is good news, though—we can curb our cravings with a little mindfulness and willpower. This two-minute trick will teach you how to control your food cravings so that they don’t control you, keep reading to learn more!
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In the interview above, you will discover the following:
- How emotional intelligence can help you lose weight
- What is the importance of force of habit to achieve permanent fat loss?
- One habit that can help you curb overeating
- The 2-minute trick to control your food cravings
How Can Emotional Intelligence Help you Lose Weight?
Emotional intelligence is the bridge between your nutrition, knowledge, and making decisions. For example, some people don’t have this emotional intelligence or this knowledge about their emotions. Your food cravings are simply transient, or the brains are kind of dumb about understanding what they want from food. A blunt way to put it is that you’re constantly craving more junk food even if you know better on the inside!
But we can control our cravings by taking control of individual moments: controlling how much we eat at any moment will help us make better choices about what and how much we should eat.
What is the Importance of Force of Habit to Achieve Permanent Fat Loss?
Force of habit is all about making small changes for bigger results. So, with habit force, you meet people where they are nutritionally and improve by slowly decreasing their caloric intake until it reaches 2000 calories or lower. This process starts with something almost everyone can do daily: taking care of yourself through daily tasks such as brushing your teeth, showering, and even eating breakfast! What’s important here is momentum: you want a positive change in your health that can lead to both short-term and long-term effects (through the effect of habits).il: your
It depends on which goal you’re trying to achieve. Still, there are accelerating factors that only specific goals will require, like working out more often or limiting social media use.
It’s not about the benefits of plant-based nutrition or emotional intelligence; it’s something you do no matter what. It gives you a base of support and some confidence to go on and make different health habits in your life.
One Habit that can Help you Curb Overeating.
When you distract yourself for a little bit, it helps to interrupt that craving. This is because when your mind and body are on different tasks, the urge to break your diet will wear off in time. If you’re trying not to eat something like chocolate cake or ice cream, take an extra 10 minutes out of each hour during dinner hours with family and friends instead of watching TV after dinner, even if this means having dessert later than usual, only once per week!
As soon as we constantly eat sugar-laden foods due to our lack of willpower at work or home, taking a moment away from what’s happening around us can help keep those urges in check.
Give yourself a little bit of space and time to think about why you are choosing to eat something. Is it because you are hungry? Or is it because you are bored or stressed out?
Sometimes we want a snack. Sometimes we want that cake. But if we can ask ourselves why we want the snack, cake, or ice cream, it will help us to be more mindful of how much we’re consuming in the long run.
The 2-minute trick to control your food cravings
Cravings are based on emotions, and when these run their course, there’s not much strength left in them. The technique uses distractions to eliminate obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which many people battle with. This way, the craving for food will be gone, and it’ll become a lot easier to control if you keep distracting yourself before eating, like checking your mail or tying your shoe.
When you want a piece of cake left over in your fridge, eat it because the first bite is so good but then eat until full, you don’t know why you ate any more than one serving due to its emotional power over us at the time. You don’t feel good after eating it, so that’s one great tip to help people with cravings.
There are many reasons why we might have cravings. We might be feeling emotionally stressed and want a sweet treat, or maybe we’re just looking for something to comfort us from the pain in our lives. However, sometimes these cravings can be hard to control, and it’s tough to resist them. To help curb your cravings, try the simple tricks mentioned above; it may help you feel better about yourself in the long run!
I hope you enjoyed the interview.
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Take care.
Rick Kaselj, MS
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