How To Avoid Stress-Induced Cravings
By Carolin
Is stress making you eat more carbs than you need?
Do find yourself going for the cookie jar, a tall cafe latte or the vending machine simply because you HAVE TO?
Maybe you are in a hurry. Maybe there are no healthy food around or maybe you are just desperate for food. NOW!
Stress-induced cravings can ruin the best-laid healthy diet plans. But you can control the cravings with these simple diet tips.
5 Healthy habits to avoid stress eating
1. Start you day with a healthy breakfast.
2. When you feel the stress building up eat a small portion of carbohydrate rich food, like bread, pasta, rice, couscous or popcorn.
3. Eat between meals. Make sure you eat something every 3 hours. Have a small snack like a piece of bread with 2 slices of cheese or some veggies.
4. Exercise for 30 min a day 7 days a week. This will make you stronger, calmer and more resistant to stress.
5. Create a distraction. When you feel like going for that cookie jar wait 15 min and do something to distract you attention. Go for a walk, surf the web, read a magazine. Usually after 15 min you’re cravings are gone.
Don’t let your cravings take over your healthy diet plan.
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The best way should be take care the stress it self as soon as possible. Also I want to add in the number 5 create a distraction, I think it is better to have other activity to do and not just a distraction. Distraction tend to be temporary and after a while you remember that you want to still crave for snack and food.
I couldn’t agree more. Many people overlook this or just don’t think about it.
You nailed it on the head!
-John