5 WAYS TO FIGHT AGAINST CRAVINGS

Ways to fight against carvings

It is hard to eat healthy meals always, particularly, when you really want to eat something which is not good for your health. During this pregnancy, in the duration of the first trimester, how can you imagine to lose weight when you really want to have sweets all the time? There are some useful and beneficial tips, I am giving you:

1. Whenever you feel craving, just distract your mind. You should go for a walk, or start cleaning the house, start reading any book or novel or go out to somewhere. After some time, you will feel that you have no more craving, instead your house would be clean.

2. Try to counsel yourself. First tell yourself that you will eat an apple. If you are really feeling hungry, it will help you go away the hunger. But if you are not hungry, then you won’t feel good to have an apple. So now you have to adapt step no. 1 i.e., distract your mind.

3. Water: When you have a craving, have a glass of water. It happens many times that you feel hungry but it is just dehydration that appears to be craving. Drink 1 or 2 glasses of water. If, still, you are hungry then go for some healthier food.

4. Sleep properly. Everyone is required to have some sleep for 7 to 9 hours at night. Bad or improper sleeping habits also cause useless cravings. Whenever, I couldn’t get enough sleep, I overeat the next day. That’s why, I make sure that I am following a maintained schedule.

5. Switch to healthier food. I have been trying to switch my junk food to healthy diet. I tried to exchange burgers, cold drinks and chips with raw truffles, salads and fruits. It takes time to make you habitual for such things. But once you get used to, you will feel the difference. Your cravings for zinger and fries would be wear off and you would wish for wheat pasta.

Do you think I am suggesting you not to eat cake ever? No! It is not like that. The thumb rule is moderation. Be moderate in your habits. You can have a little piece of cake on some occasions. But don’t eat on a daily basis.