The harsh reality is you can’t completely leave your cravings behind no matter what you do. If you are on a diet or even not cutting calories, there usually are some cravings sometimes.
But what you can do is minimize them and control them.
Here are my tips for that:
Make sure you are on a balanced meal plan full of real foods.
The more real foods you eat the more satisfied you are without eating more. The sooner you remove all the processed crap that’s full of processed salt, sugar, and fat, the sooner you start to reduce your feelings of cravings.
Acknowledge you have cravings for certain foods.
If you have a sweet tooth, eliminating everything sweet will eventually fail and you probably binge on those foods uncontrollably. Instead you might want to keep some sweet foods in your diet, like a jelly or yoghurt that you like, or some fruit.
Don’t undereat.
If you go on a diet very low in calories, you are sure to feel hungry and feel stronger cravings. A calorie deficit should be between 500-1000 calories from your maintanance calories. The lower you go the more hungry you get, obviously. You can find out your maintenance calories by asking Dr. Google for a maintenance calorie calculator. It wont be 100 % accurate but somewhere to start.
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