Cravings for a certain food do not exist. What happens to you is
this: you go on a diet and deprive your stomach, which is stretched,
from the usual amount of nutrients. People browsed this planet for
million years in groups, before they settled and became civilised,
and the pattern of eating was the same: they walked, covering scores
of miles a day, and when they found something nutritious (ants, bugs,
fruit, herbs, roots) they ate as much as they could, up to vomiting
(wild animals have the same eating pattern). They did it because they
did not know when they will have a chance to eat again, and tried to
store fat on their bodies for tougher times. But as they walked all
the time and worked hard, collecting their food, they were not
overweight. We inherited the pattern of eating from our ancestors. The
stomach is the most ancient part of your body, and the laziest. It
likes the junk food, rich in fat and sugar, because it's the easiest to
digest. When you go on a diet, you deprive your stomach of its
favourite nutrients, and your already stretched stomach sends the
signals of "hunger". You endure it for a couple of days, until your
distressed stomach can not bear with it anymore, and sends powerful
signals to your brain: hunger stared, hunger started, I need nutrients
(though it does not). And both your brain and your stomach direct you
to the most high caloric, sugary and fatty food you have ever eaten in
your life. People call it "cravings". They do not carve the item per
se (chocolate or pastry) but the item, most high in calories,
available to them and familiar to them. They start eating it, and the
stomach tells them not to stop - because it already experienced
hunger, and what if it happens again? So you eat all the high caloric
food you can get to store for the future hungry days.
What you can do about it:
1. Do not go on a very low calorie diet. It's tempting to lose fast,
and you can have an iron will, but sooner or later you will give up
under the pressure of the stomach and binge on the bad food.
2. Add good fats to your every meal in moderation. Fat is the most
nutritious component of our food, it leaves the stomach slowly and
gives you the sense of fullness.
3. Eat a lot of fibre. Your stomach does not come with an inbuilt
calorie calculator, so when you fill it with fibre (fruit and
vegetables), it gets busy digesting and leaves you alone. It knows
when you cheated on it, too: if you eat only low caloric fibre, it
asks you for food every two hours, to replenish the calorie deficit
after it finishes the digestive process, and there are not enough
calories to sustain your body processes, so it asks for more. So, when
you are hungry in between meals, snack on an apple and several nuts:
you will have fibre, and fat coming in, and it will satisfy your
stomach.
4. Add some lean protein to every meal. Not meat necessary, it can be
beans, soya, peas, nuts, low fat diary. Protein is an important part
of your metabolism, and it is crucial when satisfying your hunger.
Again, an apple/carrot with nuts is a classic sample of a snack, which
contains fibre, fructose, fat and protein.
5. Keep active all the time so as not to succumbs to emotional eating
and do not keep any junk food at home.How can I gradually remove junk food from my diet so I can get a healthy vegetarian diet?
What a bunch of ignorant advise NY. Boy have you been indoctrinated, but why are you giving advise like this to people who want real answers? Amazing.
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How can I gradually remove junk food from my diet so I can get a healthy vegetarian diet?Removing junk from your diet is the biggest benefit you will have and that will far out do any benefit you may perceive getting from being a vegetarian. Vegetarian diet is NOT the best diet contrary to many who think it is. All you have to do is look at world statistics to show that is true. The people in India are living on a primarily vegetarian diet and have a life expectancy of 66.1 years old. This is according to the recent world statistics as of Feb. 2011 that gives these statistics. The oldest life expectancy in the world is in Macau, China. These people do not eat typical Chinese diet, but is a compilation of about 4 cultures. They eat LOTS of meat, dairy, and fermented foods. They cook their food and their favorite food is PORK CHOPS. They even make pork chop bread and eat that every day. The secret is that they eat ONLY animals that are grass fed, eat RAW DAIRY from grass fed animals, lots of fermented foods and vegetables %26amp; fruits that are fresh. They do NOT practice allopathic (drug promoting) Western medicine, but CHINESE MEDICINE using acupuncture, chiropractic, and herbs. Their life expectancy? 84.4 years old! ! !
Good luck to you
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