Being on a diet is quite a challenge, especially if you are cutting back on your sugar intake. It is normal for you to feel very strong cravings for a piece of chocolate, this is because your body is adjusting to the new amount of sugar you are eating.
For those killer cravings for a good piece of cake, we leave you the following options to satisfy it without sacrificing your diet and you can lose weight:
1. Drink water
This applies to any craving that is not in your diet. Cravings are usually momentary and if you wait 15 minutes they will go away on their own, without you needing to eat anything. To help the brain in this process, we recommend you drink a glass of water and wait a few minutes. If the craving disappears, you’re already on the other side! If you keep seeing your classmates with a Snickers face…
2. Eat fruit
the chocolate craving (or cake or ice cream) It tells you of a need for sugar. The best way to satisfy her in a healthy way is with fruit, try eating a cup of strawberries, half a mango, a banana or a cup of watermelon.
This should help the sweet craving go away.
3. Peanut butter
An excellent ally for our diet is peanut butter. It has enough protein for our body to fight off cravings, calories to give us energy and a taste sweet enough to kill the craving.
4. Dark Chocolate
If your craving is specifically for chocolate, good news! A small bar of dark chocolate is ideal to complement your diet.
5. Snacks are key
All nutritionists are very specific on this: for a diet to work properly (and a healthy lifestyle) must eat 5 times a day. It is important that our body is fed constantly to ward off the cravings that sabotage our diet. Not feeling hungry is essential to keep our regimen going and we will only achieve that by giving our body the vitamins and minerals it needs to function properly, in 5 servings a day.
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