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How do you stay on a diet when you crave bad food?
I'm 5'5" and 145 pounds, I want to lose 20 pounds but every time I try I cheat on my diet. I kept cheating and telling myself that Id just start my diet over the next day, but when the next day came I always ruined my diet. People around me are always eating junk and when I see it I have to have it and I over eat. If eat a small portion of something I crave then I will want it.
I've been on a diet for 3 days and I cheated, so I start over. How can I stop craving junk food?
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Go high carb, low fat, whole foods, plant-based VEGAN! It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle change. I went vegan this year and have lost 40 pounds, with minimal exercise, and eating AS MUCH as I desire bringing down my BMI from 30 to 24. I weigh less now than I did throughout high school, as an overweight teenager, even when I exercised for hours while on Junior Varsity and Varsity sports teams. I went to my annual physical earlier this month, and even my doctor was in shock.
My goal for next year is to lose 30-40 more pounds, I just need to start exercising on a regular basis. Nothing crazy, just 30-60 minutes of jogging, Ballet Beautiful, bike riding.. things like that.
I think it's amazing what I've accomplished so far, just by changing my diet, though. It's a lot easier to go vegan than it seems. I was never vegetarian, I went from being able to eat an entire box of pizza or entire tub of ice cream in one sitting to a full-fledged vegan. I now spend a lot less money on groceries, have more energy (never need caffeine, and never feel lethargic like I used to on a regular basis), have more concentration, am learning to cook, and etc. Try it for a week, that's how I started, and I felt so good that I just kept going, and it's now been 5 months! You can get every nutrient from plant foods, including protein!
Where do you get your protein?! 10 comebacks from a Vegan.
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The only vitamin you need to supplement is B12, and one I personally recommend is Garden of Life's B12 spray (cause I personally hate swallowing pills, and methylcobalamin is better than cyanocobalamin). You can buy it at any health foods store (Whole Foods, Sprouts, Trader Joe's, etc.), or online.
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These two movies turned me into a vegan overnight.
Forks Over Knives
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Processed People
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Cowspiracy
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Here are some good YouTube channels that have helped me, too.
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Good luck!
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I have friends that through out their lives have been on and off of diets. Question is that I always ask them the same thing.
So once you complete you diet and get to the weight you want, are you going to continue with the diet or go back to eating the way you did before?
Diets are nonsense unless you plan on making a life diet change.
If you are craving certain foods that is your body going into shock. You are not allowing those foods into your body and well its going through a withdraw for it. Simply don't eat what you are craving. Drink tons of water with cravings. I know it is hard I just recently found out I have to go gluten free. And its a major change and it very difficult however I am dealing with it. Best thing stick to the change. If it gets to bad chew on some gum. :)
Hope this helps
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I know exactly what you mean. One thing that helps me is to keep reminding myself of the motivation that I had that caused me to start the diet in the first place. I hope this helped and good luck :)
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A great way to go is make something healthy that will fill you up and satisfy you. for example, say you want a chocolate milkshake, go home, and make a healthy Chocolate smoothie ( which I make all the time) great things to put in it are: UNSWEETENED cocoa powder, frozen bananas, strawberries, pineapple, mango, along with milk, water, vanilla, and for enegry and fiber, some flax. Also, use whole grains. They're better for you and will fill you up. Prepare fruit and veggies by cutting them up so they're ready to go, and get rid of ALL junk food in your house. look for sugar, white flour, preservitives, High fruotose corn suryup, you get the idea. Always bring snacks that are healthy with you, veggies and dip, fruit, trail mix, ect, so if you get hungry, you'll have something healthy. Also, unlike many people will tell you, DO NOT SKIP BREAKFAST! It gets you metabolism and blood sugar up. Do not eat cereal with tons of sugar, but eat something like an omlet or oatmeal with fruit. These are healthy thingsthat will fill you up. Always avoid white flour. Of you make pancakes or waffles, make them with whole wheat and use pure maple surup, and not artificial. hope it helped! I eat very healthy, and my Mom is a health advisor, so I would know. Good luck! :)
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