How do you resist cravings when you're trying to lose weight?

[Anonymous]

over the year I've gained about 20 pounds from stress, lack of exercise and what not and I've decided that enough is enough. I'm eating healthy, walking everyday, and going to spin class twice per week. but I can't help but crave things like bread and butter, pasta, carbs! omg...how do you resist them? I haven't caved yet, but at some point I know I'm going mow down on a bowl of mac and cheese.

[jimmyjkd]

cutting out carbs is very difficult, I am trying to do it, because I want a six pack for the summer. what I do is after training, I just have a chocolate bar afterward. research has being proven that people that eat chocolate are slimmer than people that don't.

there is no easy way except to say no. I want to loose this 20lbs. maybe indulge yourself once week, depending how hard training. eating junk food once week will not do you any harm. if you want stop craving for sugar, have some honey instead. look up health foods with sugar in them, stop those craving for sugar. dieting is hardest thing about training, not training itself, I think that's the easy bit.

[gaggleii]

You need to get into "the zone". The first few days may be the toughest but after that, your body becomes accustomed to healthy food. In fact, you'll strangely start to dislike fatty foods and even abhor people who pig out on burgers and fries.

[oOsweet~o~nessOo]

carbs aren't the enemy.

Actually they're they first form of energy you burn off, so you can chow down on bowl of mac and cheese or bread and soup before working out.

Like say for lunch you want some pasta - get a decent amount of pasta, chow down, and then it will digest for a couple hours - then you go to your classes and do your walking and it will be burning fast out of your system.

With carbs it's majorly portion control and burning them off. Eat enough to satiate you, but not so much you don't give your body a chance to burn fat off.

[spik317]

you can eat anything you want to eat. Bread, just make sure its wheat bread not white bread. Mac and cheese, its healthy and if you are worry about weight issues, workout at night where you gonna use a lot of energy and burn more than normal throughout the days. I workout 3x a week, eat what I want and when I want but at the end of the day, I workout till I burnout and then snack on a fiber bar till morning...(Notes: if you go to the gym, it also affect the area of the body you workout as well).

[foolycooly1001]

eat a lot of fiber. eat whole grain bread and pasta.