Cravings suck. I know that they are usually in your brain...your body doesn't physically need specific foods...especially ice cream and macaroni and cheese...so why is it so strong??? If I had my way with life tonight I would be smacking my face into a delicious juicy Five Guys cheeseburger. This is the hardest part of dieting for sure. My week is already firming up to be food-filled with friday carnival, sat Shakespeare fest, and sunday cake tasting...I have to stay strong. If I can net a good deficit early on in the week I can splurge a little on the weekend, and I will really want to partake in food then more than now.
This really is the hardest part of dieting...and in the past this is always where I would fail. I would give in. I would be weak. Not this time though...I am stronger than that, more determined, and I am going to do this! My goal is to be 175 by the end of July...but I want to surpass it...to curb this craving I will think of my next goal since i am so close to my first. That would be to be 170 by the end of August, if not a little sooner. ahhhhh 170...right next to 169. 1.6.....6!!! Could I ACTUALLY get to my college weight of being in the 160s?? I CAN. I WILL.
Sometimes talking to myself helps..as well as eating mints...crisis averted :)
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YOU CAN DO IT ERICA!!! DON'T GIVE IN!!!!!! Just imagine how good 175 is going to look and feel!
ReplyDeleteSometimes when I get cravings I have a huge battle in my mind. Like I definitely crave more salty than sweet, and I crave things like mac & cheese, pizza, cheeseburgers, chips, the list goes on and on! haha. So what I try to do when faced with a craving for, say... pizza... I sit and think about how pizza tastes (doesn't sound like it would help, huh?)... no, but then I think about how many times I've had pizza in my life... and then I think, "You know what, pizza tastes just about the same everytime you have it, I don't need to have pizza, I know exactly what it's going to taste like" Know what I mean... then I go on to tell myself that maybe a little less pizza in the past and I wouldn't be in this situation right now. lol. I do the same if I actually give into the craving. 1 piece of pizza isn't horrible (300 cal maybe), but then I think... the next piece is going to taste exactly the same... I don't need it! Then I'll have a salad or some fruit or something yummy. Then the more you overcome the cravings... the better you feel, then eventually they go away!! Drinking lots of water helps me to... I drink like 8 bottles a day... keeps me in the bathroom and to full to hit the vending machine! haha
GOOD LUCK! YOU GOT THIS GIRL!
thats fantastic Alyson! so helpful! i can just think about how I have had it BEFORE...and that is why I am doing it. I know some foods I cant even splurge in (like a Five Guys burger is 1000 calories!) but I should realize that its not like i will never have it again...but while I am dieting, i can..and should forego it..and you're right, it is the very reason I am in this position.
ReplyDeleteThanks...tonight i am going to be true to my convictions and stay strong! haha :D