Need To Stop Your Junk Food Cravings? It's Easy If You Do It Smart

How To Stop Junk Food Cravings

One thing every healthy conscious individual should put into mind is that, having a craving for junk foods is more controlled by the brain mostly due to the basic reason that you have trained your mind to have that kind of food often.

You cannot crave something that you have not been indulging in.
To break this habit, you need to set simple and achievable goals.
Do not just wake up one morning and think that the craving will go away immediately. You have to work on your habit by;

 Starting Out With Small Baby Steps

For example;
If you used to take french fries daily, you can limit that to just 3 days a week, then progressively reduce to 2 days then to one day and finally you will say " I seldom take french fries".

A Wise person somewhere once said that, for a new habit to stick, you have to practice the new habit for at least 21 days.
Take the challenge and stick with it for the 21 days and from there, your success rate will be high.

Another important thing to do is;

 Reduce Your Triggers.

There are those trigger moments that push us into over indulging in junk foods.
For example;

1. Having prolonged idle time in your house
2. High stress levels
3. Buying lot's of junk for your kids- you will also bite in the process as you serve them.

Those are the most common trigger moments that many people experience, and can be a challenge as far as maintaining your health goal is concerned.

What One Ought To Do Is;

Reduce the idle time at home by doing activities that will keep your mind busy, this will prevent you from moving from the kitchen to the coach at all times with bitings as you watch your favorite movie.

Secondly, as you seek to make your kids happy and adore you by getting them junkies, remember that you shall also suffer the consequences of junking in the process. Limit this kind of shopping by letting your kids know early enough the importance of snacking on healthy foods.
Instead of crisps, fries, pizzas... get them grapes, strawberries, nuts... they are equally sweet and healthy at the same time.

Thirdly, keep off from stress.
It's okay to get stressed up once in a while but do not carry your yesterday's problem to today. Leave your burdens at the feet of Christ and He will sort you out.
High stress levels increase the level of cortisol hormone in your body, causing you eat more and more especially the junk foods.
As a result you add more weight and become a junk junkie at the same time.

Last but not least;

Keep A Diary Of Your Cheat Days

Record what you have cheated on with and the frequency.
Having a look at this record will cause enough guilt to you and cause you to seriously reconsider your fitness goal.

I wish you less junking moments and a new year filed with fitness enthusiasm.

Cheers

With Love
Nimoh, a passionate holistic health care worker.