Lose pounds and inches - I need to lose around 15-20 pounds.. how to stop the cravings?

I need to lose around 15-20 pounds.. how to stop the cravings?

i need to lose around 20 pounds fairly quickly, and i eat pretty healthy but i have those moments (sometimes a few times a day!!!) when i just have the craving to eat chocolate or chips or anything thats bad for you! how can i quit this?

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just substitute food you crave for healthy food. you can eat as much vegetables and salads as you want all day. and chicken, can never have enough chicken
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eat healthy
did u know that cafine stops cravings? Try to drink diet coke! Dont forget to exercise and eat healthy! hope this helps =)
Eat any fruits,like oranges and you'll feel full and won't have any more cravings.
Drink lots of water so you are full... that way you wont get cravings and your body will be working to detoxify you and help you lose weight better!
plain oatmeal works best for me. (no sugar, no salt) it's healthy and it seems to keep my stomach happy for a while. i use to crave junk food like crazy too, but this has been working for me.
Actually you can have too much chicken, but 2nding the salads. Also drink lots of water, or ice water with a couple slices of lemon or lime in water for taste.
First off, don't buy these things, second, eating healthy is only half the picure. You need to exercise to get the full effect of healthy food. Also, don't shop for grocheries hungry.
If you need to loose weight quickly, you're setting yourself up for long term failure. The redeeming thing about your question is that you are aware about your out of control snacking and want to stop. That is more reasonable. The best answer to that is do not stop snacking, have fruit instead of chocolate. Also drink alot of water. Sometimes the body mistakes thirst for hunger, and your body has to spend calories to heat up water to a usable temperature.
tips---dont have junk in the house (or just a littel and pig out once a week or somthing) and reduced fat u really cant just dnt think about junk and if u have alll healthy food think about them and hopefully u will crave healthy stuff and b less temted 4 junk food ... hope i helped!!
Do something else entirely. I've tried the substituting healthy foods trick, and it doesn't really work for me, because then my mind is still on eating and I feel unsatisfied. Try checking your e-mail or walking around the block or a row of knitting or something. Then you won't be thinking about food at all. Distract yourself. Once you're no longer thinking abou chocolate, the cravings fade pretty quickly. Good luck!
Try eating walnuts, or any kind of nut. Only a handful though and they can't be coated with chocolate, honey ect. They make you feel full & are healthy.
eat more protien. its filling and boosts your metabolism things like eggs and nuts have a lot of protien. stay away from sweets and sugary foods. make sure you're taking in lots of water (not soda, flavored waters, juice.) just plain old water. thats the best thing you can do and if you did only this and stuck to it it would probably shed you 5 lbs. try and exercise an hour a day at least 5 days a week. even just walking. if youre eating sweets try and substitute it for healthy treats. I use vanilla yogurt and put peach slices and maple syrup on it. it acts as a desert without being horrible for you.
Just drink lots and lots of water! And remember........ Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels!
try to keep unhealthy foods away from and only healthy foods near you such as fruits and vegetables. If you dont have any unhealthy junk food near you u wont have a craving to eat it and when u get hungry u will be stuk eating only fruits and vegetables and anything alse healthy u have around u!
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substitute all the junk food with healthy food. but dont think just becuse its healthy you can eat as much as you want..thats not true i've read many books and magazines and they all stated that as well.. you to keep you on the "diet" or whatever you wish to call it give yourself a treat every once in a while..treat yourself for not eating junk food for a whole week or two
Try to change what you snack on. Carrots and Celery are excellent snacks. The trick is to plan ahead. Another trick is to drink a cup of water before you snack on anything. It will cause you to be full quicker. Excessive more. Being healthy means lowering the caloric intake and increase the amount of calories you burn.
Eat two thirds of what you eat now... Eating less is the BEST way to lose weight, since it doesn't affect your lifestyle. (drinking water before you eat helps you to get used to this) Oh, and ofcourse, you should exercise and eat alot of greens... but we both know that wont work ;3.
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Eat it in the morning but just alittle ... then you have the entire day to work it off. Also drinking water or something sweet ( like them fruitywaters) that sometimes curves the cravings. If you cant stand the cravings anymore just have pieces or small amounts, like three chips or 3 M&M's. If you want to lose weight fast just think of your goal while you are craving them things or just about to give into cravings. Hope this helps.. good luck
Jogging!! It burns a lot of calories! when you have a craving try chewing a piece of gum that helps me. Cut out Sodas drink water and unsweet tea. You just have to use your will power to break the craving cycle. I did it by not eating anything with sugar and very little carbs for 10 days and it killed my cravings for it! But mostly lower calorie intake, write down what you eat it will make you realize how many calories you are really taking in. even if you just write it down for a week it will help! Good luck!
Hey i've lost 30 pounds, and i go crazy hearing about people trying to loose weight by not eating, i lost weight by educating myself about nutrition. First when it comes to a diet, DONT GIVE UP, but be healthy about it. IF you just dont eat or do not eat atleast 1300( for female) calories a day, your body starts freaking out and thinking your starving so it holds on to all the fat in your body in order to survive, and you end up becoming frusterated wondering why am i not loosing any weight, just feeling yucky. Then if you actually stick on to that routine of not eating for a few months you start to loose weight, but its your muscle you are loosing, your body is starving with no food so it starts to eat your muscles, and by this time your body attitude has changed and your addicted to not eating. Than due to lack of calcium your teeth start to turn brown and eventually break in half or fall out, but i guess thats good since you dont need them for eating anyways! Also you will loose your hair, this is not a lifestyle. I've had personal experience wtih weight loss and i concured it, you can too but you HAVE TO EAT! IT IS NOT ABOUT DIETING, DO NOT DIET, ITS A LIFESTYLE. To eat healthy, First thing first, if you love soda, Try to see it for what it is, read the back of the can its nothing but added flavors, fat, sugar, and it tears at your stomach. I drink only water, and i do sit ups every night. Cut out junk food, and eat food that is good for you body. Before i eat anything i think about how it will help my body, what is a cookie going to do, sit in my stomach and turn into fat, what is chinese food going to do, saturated fat, grease, or vegetables that will fuel my body, protein, thats how you have to think, you have to be a consious eater and think about what you eat before you eat it. You have to lower your calorie intake in order to loose weight,and by that i dont mean down to like 200, you need atleast 1300 a day(for women). Slimfast is a great resource the website is free and you can enter every piece of food you have eaten and see how much fat you've consumed and how many calories. It also takes your gender height and weight into consideration and gives a plan to stick to (FOR FREE), plus it tells you how much you should weight. its called a BMI calculator. I was overweight, My face got so huge and i felt like all of the rest of me did too, i found out how to eat healthy and stuck to and i've lost around 30 pounds by doing that. Cut out all sugar/junk food/ cookies and all. Eat every 3 hours. Like at 6 i wake up and have all fruit for breakfast and than at 9 i have a snack of raw fruits or vegetables, at 12 i eat a slimfast bar and half a turkey sandwhich or something, at 3 i have another snack of vegetables or a fruit, and for dinner i have meats like chicken with no skin, or fish that has not been fried with half a plate of vegetables. Raw veggies are better than cooked actually because they loose nutrients when they are cooked. Plus you gotta excersize, even if its 30 minutes a day, if you have ON DEMAND like on your tv, they have free excersize videos you can do, thats what i do. I also got into yoga, 5 months later i went from a size 12-13 to a 4-5, and i was at 156, now i'm at 126, and i'm 5'6 tall.
okay, this might be bad but this is what i did. you eat normal portions. breakfast,lunch,snack (maybe) and diner, all healthy and then whenever your craving food ,workout instead be if you want chocolate do situps in place of eating it. it might be dumb but its good exercise and definetly works
People always do a lot of exercise in order to lose weight fast, I did also and it did not always work for me, I found that if I do things in which I have to move all my body constantly helps more with the weight loss than run or use the skeptical machines. I discovered that kick boxing combine with Brazilian capoeira make you sweaty a lot and lose weight fast that any other exercise. it helps firm and shape the body in only 4 weeks, it is amazing how my metabolism increased, I Also keep drinking water. Also I read in some article about how dark chocolate 80% cocoa and nuts helps eliminate the cravings and they are also good sources to help you heart and cholesterol.
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