how to stop junk food and sugar cravings?
From: Bois
Subject: Nutrition
Date/Time 2008-06-27 16:27:40
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Focus on cutting out certain things at at time rather than all at once. Switch to diet soda, then cut it out completely; then fast food, then candy, etc etc.
Try to get it all out of your system within a month (or sooner). cutting cold turkey is hard and you will probable relapse.
Start eating good food and you will eventually crave it. check john berardi's web site for some really good tasting, healthy recipes.
When you get a craving chew some sugar free gum, and if you're at home go brush your teeth when you get a craving.
if you put in all this time into training, having 1 or two cheat days a week is a shitty-half ass way to blow it. you need to cut it down to 1-2 cheat meals a week, and eventually cut that out.
a lot of junk food (potato chips) are actually designed to keep you wanting more (make your body secrete certain things to tell it you are not full and crave more). eating it will just make you want more.
something that i've found worked well is cycling between a low carb diet and a moderate carb diet (one where you eat carbs, but everything you eat is very healthy). do one until you get tired of it, then the other, etc etc. the low carb diet will allow you a lot of fatty, good food, but you'll probably get sick of it after a few months.
at this point go on a diet where you eat a lot of fruits, veggies, lean meats, some grains. eventually you'll probably stick to this diet and not really think anything of it.
here is a article by Eric Cressey that talks about exactly what you are dealing with and how to get around it.
http://www.t-nation.com/readArticle.do?id=2157613
You are in the "Conscious Incompetence" phase.
2 more steps to go.
jmo
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