Craving This? Eat This!
Got a terrible craving for potato chips? Can’t seem to get enough sour candy? Check out this chart and see what you may be missing. Time to turn in the Pepsi for some kale.
Intense cravings are created for various reasons including low seratonin levels to the need for that endorphin rush caused by fats or carbs. Often you can crush cravings when you ingest the minerals and nutrients that soothes these urges.
I found this wonderful infographic by FreeFormFitness.Ca to help figure what cravings mean. It’s definitely a useful tool to copy and save on your desktop for times of emergency… like when it’s just you and a half eaten box of Oreo cookies.
Check it out and let me know what you think! I crave a lot of coffee, but seem to eat all of those things often. Maybe it’s telling me to put to coffee down and pick up the cauliflower rather than eating it with my coffee.
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A graduate from Florida Gulf Coast University, I melded my love of writing with a passion for fitness and health to create Mother Fitness. This site is filled with candor and insight as I trek through the fields of exercise, nutrition, and parenting-- trying to make sense of it all and make it all work together.
I always tell people, if you find yourself constantly craving certain foods it’s because your body doesn’t have enough of a certain nutrient. But if our diets are nutrient rich and we are NOURISHED you’ll rarely find yourself really truly craving something, a food item may sound appealing or good but it’s not like before when you would knock down a wall and trample anyone in your way to get your hands on xyz.
This list is great – and the more nourished our bodies are the less we’ll ever need a list at all! It’s interesting how our nation is so overweight – we obviously eat way too much – but many are mal nourished.
This is so true! My sugar cravings went away when I added more fat to my diet.
Good find…these suggestions may help. The key point is that dealing with cravings has much more to deal with what you start doing than what you stop doing. Research-based suggestions to address sugar, carb and caffeine cravings are definitely the way to go.
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Awesome! Thanks so much for sharing!!!