Welcome. Hello, I’m Kay Loughrey, Maryland, nutritionist and dietitian, helping you build a healthy relationship with food. Today, we’re talking about cravings, food cravings—your food cravings. This video is the third part of a 5-part video series. In the first video, covered the five steps of how to stop being controlled by food. In the second video, we talked about the trigger. Today, we’re talking about food cravings and we’re featuring Jenny, one of my previous coaching weight loss clients.
Jenny was an accomplished professional. She commuted to and from work each day. When she walked in the door after work, she went straight to the kitchen and walking into the kitchen triggered her food cravings. What did she do next? She snacked. She snacked all the way through making dinner on cheese, crackers, and nuts. By the time she sat down to dinner, she was almost full. By the time she finished dinner, she had overeaten and was disappointed in herself.
How Jenny stop her food cravings and not cave into these cravings by snacking before dinner? In the next video we’ll talk about how she paused and slowed down instead of going into autopilot and indulging her food cravings. Thank you for joining us for this video today. Click here to subscribe and we’ll see you in the next video about the 5 Steps to Stop being Controlled by food. Thank you.
Winter Weather
Does winter weather increase your food cravings? Find out more about what to do about seasonal cravings when many of us are mainly indoors. Click here for the Winter Weather Food Cravings blog post to find more about what causes these cravings and how to curb them. In this post we highlighted these topics:
- Where cravings come from
- What to eat if you really are hungry
- When to pay attention to mental and emotional health
- How to develop good eating habits
Lack of Sleep
Sleep deprivation is another issue that can stir up food cravings. Click here for more about the effect of lack of sleep on food cravings. Read our blog post on Pillow Talk for a Healthy Heart: Nurturing Weight Loss Through Restful Sleep and find out the effects of lack of sleep.
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Kay Loughrey, MPH, RDN, LDN
Transformational Speaker, Breakthrough Coach, Nutritionist-Dietitian
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