Plant-Based Diet Meal Plan: Your Step-by-Step Guide to a Healthy, Fat-Free Lifestyle with Simple, Quick and Tasty Recipes by Isabella Williams

Author:Isabella Williams [Williams, Isabella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-17T22:00:00+00:00

This is why we need to pay attention to the foods we consume and the lifestyle we adopt. This goes a long way in ensuring that we meet our emotional and physical needs are met.

The different food cravings and how to handle them

Junk food cravings

Junk food cravings are cravings for processed foods or foods with high calorie content. This is a norm in the Western countries. This is what people like Suzanne and other people experience: it’s the desire for ice cream, cakes, soda, candy and potato chips. The thing is many people in the Western world grew up with junk foods at our disposal and we didn’t have any notion like there was something wrong with it.

These foods are pretty high in calories, oils, they have high sodium content, refined sugars and flavour enhancers. This over-excites the taste buds and it will want to maintain the momentum of that excitement. This means plant based foods will taste bland and you can be sure that it wouldn’t appeal to you. Once you begin, you lose control and want these kinds of food and nothing else.

Some organizations have been reported to get scientists to work on the taste of their junk foods so that it becomes so addictive that you never want to go a day without it. (Can you imagine?)

How do you overcome the junk food craving when you transition to whole plant based diet?

Take out all junk from your house: your house needs to be safe enough for you. If you are out of your house for the better and longer part of the day, I’m sure you will be flooded with images of food from different ads and fast foods that you can almost swear calls out to you.

 This is why your house must be a safe haven. You shouldn’t go out and be tempted and come in to the same thing. You need to give yourself a fighting chance to stick with plant based diet so remove the foods.

I did something silly once, when I began to stick with plant based diet. I hadn’t had anything out of a plant based meal and so I bought fries for a friend who was coming over. She told me she couldn’t make it and I didn’t thrash it immediately. One day I was bored and I ate it all.

 Fill your house with fruits and veggies

One thing that has helped and is still helping me is fruits and veggies. I keep fresh and colourful fruits on my countertop. Whenever I feel any craving, I can easily reach out to it and take one or a few pieces of coloured fruits. I settle with it and enjoy it.

I know it isn’t easy but after a while it will no longer taste bland and you will enjoy the taste. After going for fruits consistently, your taste buds will adjust to it and use it in place of natural sugar.

Fruits can also help you prevent dehydration; dehydration can lead to cravings

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