One of the hardest parts of following a weight loss diet is trying to curb your cravings.  It seems like no matter what eating plan you’re trying to follow those inevitable cravings for the things your not supposed to eat just sneak up on you and try to sabotage your success.   Here’s a few tips to help curb those cravings.

Did you know that the less active you are throughout your day the hungrier you get?  It seems as though lack of movement causes a nasty little hormone known as “ghrelin” to be released.  Ghrelin increases our urge to eat.  So try to remind yourself to get up from your desk or away from the tube and move around at least once every hour.  It can help you curb your cravings!

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It seems that 79% of women crave sweets more than any other type of food.  I know I fit in that category!  Some days I can hardly stand the craving for cookies, candy, ice cream — anything sweet — I want it!  I have always been under the impression that the best way to resist the temptations is to keep all sweets out of site (better yet out of the house!)

Now researchers claim that actually leaving tempting foods in sight can actually help you increase your willpower over time.  That sounds risky to me but I’ll give it a try!   This same study also recommends that when you feel yourself faltering try to remember another time when you caved in to your cravings.  By doing this, they say, it can actually become easier to resist temptation.

Here’s a trick I can really go for — eating dark chocolate!  It can actually help you feel full.  Talk about a lucky break!  Look for a dark chocolate with 70% or more cocoa.  One of my favorite snacks is mixing a few dark chocolate chips in with a handful of healthy nuts.  Tastes like an honest-to-goodness candy bar!

To get even more craving-buster benefits from chocolate try snacking on it in the morning.  Chocolate releases the feel-good hormone serotonin and your serotonin levels are highest in the a.m.   Researchers believe that eating the chocolate then causes it to lose much of it’s addictiveness and helpsyou curb your cravings, especially those afternoon cravings.

If you just can’t curb your cravings it may be best to just give in to it — within reason.  You know how it goes — the more you can’t have it the more you want it!  Try eating just a little of it, don’t feel guilty and take the time to actually enjoy it.

For those foods that are really tough to eat just a little of try having them only when you can restrict portions, like when you eat out.  When I want to have a treat I look for something in a single serving portion.  That way I can’t go nuts and eat a whole bag of cookies or 4 brownies or an entire carton of ice cream!

Hope these tips have given you some ideass to help curb your cravings.  It’s never easy but don’t let yourself get consumed by your desire to have some “forbidden” food.  I’ve often found that when I’ve gone without sweets for a long period of time and then decide to splurge on some sweet treat I actually have trouble deciding on what to have.  Suddenly the choices just don’t seem worth it for the extra calories.  They’ve just sort of lost their appeal.

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