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Want to kill your cravings at work or at home?

06 Wednesday Apr 2022

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Stick a bottle of mouthwash in your desk drawer, break room cubby, or on the counter!

According to the journal Appetite, when study subjects ate a bite or two of a favorite snack – then rinsed with mouthwash – they were less likely to go back for more. That’s because the mouthwash sweeps away the savory, salty, sweet, or fatty flavors lingering in your mouth, and the minty taste switches off your appetite.

Even just sniffing something minty can do the trick. A study found that people who sniffed the scent of peppermint every 2 hours weren’t as hungry as those who didn’t sniff mint, and consumed 400 fewer calories each day! The scent distracts the brain from thinking about food and even dials down hunger hormones.

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Here’s a one-minute meditation to help kick your food cravings.

30 Wednesday Mar 2022

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It comes from Bob Roth, one of the most experienced and sought-after meditation teachers in North America. 

Here’s what to do:

Place 3 fingers of your left hand on your right wrist and find your pulse. 

Then, let both hands rest in your lap. 

Close your eyes.

Focus on the feeling of your pulse.

Allow your thoughts to come and go, not focusing or dwelling on them. 

After a minute, you’ll feel more relaxed – and you’ll be less likely to reach for food to self-medicate your stress.

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Here’s a quick trick for killing a craving:

27 Wednesday Jan 2021

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Visualize the ingredients in it! For example, if you want to avoid sugary soda, visualize 10-cubes of sugar in that one drink. Or, if a candy bar sounds tempting, picture test tubes filled with emulsifiers or preservatives, like tertiary butyl hydroquinone. According to Dr. Mehmet Oz, when we SEE what we’re considering consuming, we’re much less likely to want it.

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Here’s a one-minute meditation to help kick your food cravings.

04 Friday Sep 2020

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It comes from Bob Roth, one of the most experienced and sought-after meditation teachers in North America. 

Here’s what to do:

Place 3 fingers of your left hand on your right wrist and find your pulse. 

Then, let both hands rest in your lap. 

Close your eyes.

Focus on the feeling of your pulse.

Allow your thoughts to come and go, not focusing or dwelling on them. 

After a minute, you’ll feel more relaxed – and you’ll be less likely to reach for food to self-medicate your stress.

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You CAN satisfy your cravings…

18 Thursday Jun 2020

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…and suffer no consequences when you step on the bathroom scale: Think small! In other words, take a couple bites, then wait. Cornell University’s Food & Brand Lab says portion size has ZERO impact on our level of satisfaction. In fact, those who ate smaller portions – or about 77% less food – felt just as satisfied 15 minutes after eating… compared to those who ate the largest portions. Bottom line: Two squares of chocolate or 6 potato chips may absolutely be enough to satisfy your craving without loading you up on calories and fat, and blowing your diet.

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Why do we crave certain foods?

26 Thursday Mar 2020

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We know this to be true: The more junk food we eat, the more we crave. Because we get addicted to the combination of sugar, salt and fat. Also, junk food is typically highly processed. So it goes through our system like lightning – causing a blood sugar spike, followed by a crash – that makes us crave more junk to get our energy up again.

Well, we’re just finding out that cravings for healthy food work in a similar way. According to the Human Nutrition Research Center at Tufts University, when people followed a healthy eating plan, they actually started preferring healthier foods. Brain scans were done on study participants before the study – and again 6 months later. And the subjects on the healthy eating program showed reduced activity in the reward center of the brain when they were shown images of junk food… and they had increased brain reward activity when they saw healthy foods, like grilled chicken. The experts say, it’s a conditioned response and we can reverse our cravings by repeatedly exposing ourselves to better foods.

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Once you lose weight, your favorite foods may not thrill you as much.

11 Thursday Apr 2019

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For example, a Stanford University study found people were significantly less likely to crave salty foods after losing weight. That’s because fat produces hormones that makes our taste buds less sensitive, and food less satisfying. Translation? When you’re slimmer, you’ll be just as happy eating a handful of potato chips as you were when you were heavier, and ate the whole bag!

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Do you have weird food cravings?

17 Friday Aug 2018

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Why do you crave weird food combos, like egg salad and grape soda? It’s probably because you loved them as a kid. According to the journal Appetite, past experiences of pairing sweet drinks with calorie-rich foods makes those pairings more tempting throughout our lives. The trick is to separate the two – and drink water with egg salad, and soda with broccoli. Your mind will break the association, and you’ll start to lose the craving and eat healthier.

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Best reason ever for a neck massage?

15 Tuesday Aug 2017

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It’ll help reduce your cravings! And if you don’t have someone handy to rub your neck, you can do it yourself. Just rub the back of your neck near your hairline, with your hands on either side of your spine, for 2 minutes. That’s a pressure point for the hypothalamus – which is the brain region that controls hunger pangs and cravings.

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Tasting as you cook…

20 Thursday Apr 2017

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You know those little taste-test bites you take while cooking? They don’t do as much damage to your diet as you may think! Dr. Brian Wansink is a nutritional science expert. He says people who nibble while preparing food – then sit down to a full meal – eat 57% FEWER calories than if they wait to eat until the cooking is done. Dr. Wansink says having a small snack actually shuts down hunger pangs and food cravings… So when you do sit down to eat, you’re not ravenous and end up overeating. So, go ahead and sample your cooking!

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