Totally Eliminate Foods That You Crave To Destroy Cravings

When most people come to me to lose weight the first thing that I do is put them on a weight loss diet,  which is a low carb diet.  Most people are overweight today because of too much carbs in the diet.  This is usually in the form of fructose and white flower products.  What I have noticed as well as my clients is that the longer you are on the diet the less and less you crave high carb foods.  At first it will be very hard for most people, but like I tell all my clients, just get through the first month and it will all be downhill after that.  I have especially noticed this phenomenon myself after my Sunday cheat days.  I am at the point in dieting that I eat clean for 6 days then on the 7th day I eat whatever I want.  This usually includes foods that are high in carbs.  This works well in that it increases all the activity of fat burning hormones and enzymes as well as tops off muscle glycogen stores.  But, one thing I notice is that for the next couple of days I have a severe craving for carbs.  This diminishes as the week goes on, as the carbs are now eliminated from the diet.  Even though I am expecting it, it still happens every time.  This is why people have such a hard time starting and sticking to a diet is they think it will always be like the first few days or week, which it won’t.

This phenomenon that I just explained has recently been backed up by a scientific study by the Journal of Obesity.  The study lasted for 2.5 years and the subjects were separated into 2 groups.  The first group was the low carb, high protein high fat group and the second group was the low fat group.  What they found after the study was that the people on the low carb group had less preference and less cravings for high carb foods.  They also found out that the low fat group had less of a preference and less cravings for high fat foods.

With this study in mind, a person should totally eliminate foods that will not take them towards their health and physique goals.  This would mean eliminating carbs or only getting them from low glycemic sources as fruits and vegetables.  The major mistake that I see ALOT of clients make is that they will follow 95% of the diet, which causes them to still have bad cravings.  For example, I will have a client that will do the diet 100% but a couple times a week she will have a spoonful of ice cream.  Sure this might not totally derail her fat loss but she is making it way harder on herself as she will keep having these cravings, because she is not totally eliminating it from her diet.  If she was to totally remove the ice cream from her diet for a month, chances are should would not crave it nearly as much.  This would make her diet much easier to follow and much more effective for weight loss.  Everyone has their “go to”  foods that they should totally eliminate, because these are the ones that in the end will cause a person to give up on their diet.  It is in my experience that the people who can do the diet by the book for 4-6 weeks are smooth sailing and I would put money that they would reach their weight loss goals.

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