Forums: April 2011 Kickstart Forum: I'm HUNGRY!
Created on: 05/09/11 05:15 PM Views: 1150 Replies: 4
gryphonpro Joined: 01/30/11 Location: Cape Breton, NS, Canada Posts: 239	I'm HUNGRY! Posted Monday, May 9, 2011 at 5:15 PM The AN UNLIKELY VEGAN gang reporting in. We have noticed that both myself, and Irene, are having cravings and stuffing ourselves in response! Something is going on! I don't think it is actual hunger. I am feeling a need that my mind is interpreting as hunger, but it is more like a craving. I feel like shovelling food into my mouth by the truckload! I think it is fat, or maybe salt, I am craving. I just ate almost a third of a cup of grated daiya "cheese" from the package while standing at the fridge door, and I am not really hungry. (I asked Irene...) Is this what you were talking about last week, or are you actually hungry? (Irene answered...) That is exactly what I had before. It was weird because I couldn't get enough. Evan says it's because our body is needing something we're not giving it....I think it's normal to crave something at times. I think back to pregnancy cravings...same thing! No rational explanation! Irene So, is this normal. I am thinking that the 21 Day support isn't enough. I had no problem at all during the first three weeks, but I have plateaued in weighloss, and am feeling the need to stuff my face. Help! - madeline madeline yakimchuk Director: MEET IRENE - An Unlikely Vegan GRYPHON media productions www
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Wild4Stars Joined: 12/27/09 Location: Florida Posts: 832	RE: I'm HUNGRY! Posted Monday, May 9, 2011 at 7:24 PM Cheese is addictive, your body may be going through addiction withdrawal. The vegan cheese isn't feeding the addiction so you keep craving it. It will go away. Read the book "The China Study" it will open your eyes to why you are standing at the fridge shoving cheese in you mouth. When you say your body is craving something it's not getting, that's partially true. It's craving for that addiction to be fed. Doesn't mean it's craving something good for you! That craving WILL GO AWAY !! The addiction will go away. After being vegan for several months try eating some real cheese. You will feel SICK. Your body doesn't need it, you're just addicted to it right now. That's the craving. Vikki ~ Wild4Stars@gmail.com
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gryphonpro Joined: 01/30/11 Location: Cape Breton, NS, Canada Posts: 239	RE: I'm HUNGRY! Posted Monday, May 9, 2011 at 9:00 PM Thanks for the response. I am hoping it is something like that. I was expecting this sort of thing during the first few weeks, and when i started happening in month two I was surprised, and assumed it must be emotional. I have had absolutely NO cheese, or other dairy, since about a week before the April 4th kickstart... are there reports of the body craving all of a sudden weeks later? - madeline madeline yakimchuk Director: MEET IRENE - An Unlikely Vegan GRYPHON media productions www
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mollyhorn Joined: 03/03/10 Location: Fort Worth, TX Posts: 582	RE: I'm HUNGRY! Posted Monday, May 9, 2011 at 9:58 PM It very well could be a craving for fat and salt. Have you read Dr. Barnard's "Breaking the Food Seduction" or the even more enlightening "The Pleasure Trap" by Dr. Douglas Lisle? Both are eye-opening. We are hard-wired to crave calorie-dense foods because in times of famine, these were foods that kept us alive. I find that, for me, if I am really famished and craving something fatty, a small teaspoon of fatty/salty food will quell the craving – such as a teaspoon of lowfat peanut butter or a spoonful of warmed-up hummus. This will stop the craving and allow me to get on about my business of eating my healthy, low-calorie meal. Yes, it is eating *some* fat, but better that tiny amount than sitting and gorging on something else, at least for me! Molly Horn
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Bugsmom Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2087	RE: I'm HUNGRY! Posted Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 8:27 AM I agree with Molly - sometimes it's better to have a little controlled something, like nut butter or salted popcorn, than to try to ignore it and end up going wild. That's why most "diets" stop working eventually - they force someone to ignore things until they burst loose and they start standing at the fridge eating like loonies! It really helps if I stop and think on what is it I'm wanting, too. "I want cheese" - okay, well is it the fat/creamy texture? is it salt? is it the pungent flavor? Etc. If I can winnow it down a bit, I can find things that target that "want" that don't include "cheese" - hummus is a strong flavor, nut butters are creamy/fatty, pickles are a nice salty flavor (and they have crunch!) and so on. Also, if you feel like you want to just eat and eat, you might stop and have a glass of water. Often, thirst gets confused with hunger (weird but true). I know, for example, if I've been exercising, and I don't have a glass of water afterward, I'll start wanting to munch and munch and munch. But, just a simple beverage will moderate that "hungry" and I can then say "Okay, I wasn't hungry, I was thirsty" or "Yeah, I'm still needing some food but I can control it now" --Deb R
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