How To Control Your Cravings | Earth Science
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- Michael Mosley helps out with a surprising psychological trick to help you curb your cravings. Let us know how you get on in the comments!
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I didn't know there was a study on this. I actually do this especially when I have to fast. What I do is I journal the food I'm craving and think about eating them, I imagine the taste, the texture, what I feel. Then, that's it, no more craving. It helps when I'm fasting.
I've imaged subscribing 30 times and then I stop craving this.
Admit it, you made this video as an excuse to buy the cake, and eventually eat it!
mmm.. chocolate cheesecake
I wish I'd watched this video before I ate my brothers secret stash of smarties.
I'm just like that with Chocolate too. Family hides it, I look for it for a while and end up giving up if it's well hidden.
+Lexyvil same haha
I always imagined eating the things I was craving. I'm glad that there is research behind this!
Hi there.
That's actually very interesting.
I'll try to avoid tv snacking by using it...
Could this technique be used for smoking?
Could it have lasting results?
I often find that after I get done researching a potential purchase online I no longer desire the item. It's as if I've shopped it out of my system. Maybe they are similar phenomenons.
audio i low and loud at different moments of the video. Can you fix that for the next one, please? ty :)
That piece of chocolate fudge or something is the most delicious chocolate product i've seen! what is it?
When i last lost weight i would sit in queues at checkouts and imagine eating the chocolate shown, by the time i got served i didnt buy it as i didnt want it... glad to see it wasnt just me being crazy :)
Great. I was watching this video while eating exactly what I would have tried this technique on.
I wasn't craving chocolate but now I am, and I'm heading into kitchen pantry to find one...
When I do that I want it more
The last time I was hanging out at the Library I binged on way too many Smarties, probably about 300g worth. Tonight on the way to the Library I was thinking about Smarties and then the whole over indulging episode of last time came back and suddenly the last thing I wanted was Smarties. This all happened before I even saw this video. I'd say the researchers in Boston are onto something!
I once went 7 years without chocolate. My trick was to tell myself it wasn't food, therefore it might as well have been rocks. It worked very well. Took a while for the cravings to stop. I started eating it again when I started buying it for someone else.
+MrKeflor I bought some addictive sirup waffles to send along with a parcel for friends. I'll either have to buy them again, or not include the little attention. Buying something means consuming it. Who ever lets great quasi food go bad due to letting it sit?
Does this apply to other types of craving? (Video games, Facebook and the like)
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That could be a useful exercise. I'm sure the results would be all over the place. When I see something like this I think there must be people who, when you mention cravings, wonder what people are actually talking about. They either don't have any or they are so slight they don't notice them. I believe for almost all human conditions there are people at opposite ends of the spectrum. Studying the outliers would be the most beneficial I would think. For me, I don't have nightmares. (A dream where I am physically at risk. I have "I can't get my work done." types of nightmares or I am afraid I can't save someone some from a monster.) Since I was a child (I'm almost 50 now.) I'm pretty sure that's not normal.
This gives the phrase, "You'll just have to imagine the fire" more meaning.
What other cravings might this work on??
I recognize the doc's face from some really good documentaries.
Gotta think of muffins then.
I seriously wonder what effect all this imagining might have on your insulin response and fat storage hormones.
what about if you have an imbalance of dopamine
i think also replace candy with 80% chocolate bar,very bitter,so few pieces r enough to satisfy. hearty person? whole grain sandwich w bit peanut butter or baked potatoes instead of fries or crisps. also instead of fizzy drinks,i drink tea,coffee without sugar. another tip: 100% cocoa powder + boiling water + touch of milk= healthy cocoa drink,i think. also, don't buy the candy :) what u don't have, u cannot wolf up. cheers, o, easy w the alcohol ;)
So each time I crave something, I need to imagine myself eating it 30 times? That's a bit time consuming.
+Maya Ayam Not if you imagine yourself eating it really fast.
I can't have ready-to-eat food at home or I'll just start thinking about it until I go and eat it.
My solution is just not buying it. If I don't have it home or at reach, I won't crave for it.
Must.... have.... sweetsssssssssss
great, now I want chocolate.... I'm imagining it, but I don't know if it's working.....
does this somewhat apply to addictions?
+andrew kim I'm sitting here wondering if it'll work for weed.
are you getting high off the imaginary bong hits?
***** nah, just the real ones.
What if i crave any food not a sperific food
+Matthew Stamp
I think that's called being hungry =)
I like chocolate to. But I am afraid that if I think about it I REALLY want a bar or 2 or 3.....
Does fantasizing about gluttony makes one less hungry?
Strange technique. It could work, but I can't see people taking the time to focus their imagination for that long.
A better technique imo is to drink 2 glasses of water in succession (or a 750ml bottle). You'll fill up the stomach and the taste generally kills a craving for sugary sweets. It's also a good technique shortly before meals if you want to reduce portion sizes. 2 different doctors I've spoken to recommend drinking 1.5L of water before 9:30am and go onto at least 3 litres over the day. I'd recommend stopping by ~9pm so you don't interrupt your sleep with required pitstops.
I've done that. It doesn't work for me, It makes me want it more :(
Got cravings? That doesn't mean you have to give in. :)
I feel like if I do this it will do the opposite intended
If I go past the shop I won't really want to go back and buy choclate
I used to crave BritLab videos, but now I just remember that they canned James May, and now I don't anymore!
What I do is that I imagine I already ate it.
Is it possible to crave something you've never had?
Now imagine all smokers do that.
But will it work with genuine addictions, nicotine being the most prominent example?
Thanks.. Now to go have some chocolate
or better yet just look at something absolutely revolting after which you will no longer have an appetite but you may become desensitised to revolting things
dammit. I am so good at imagining myself eating cheese. What a wasted talent.
I wonder if it will work with cigarettes.
Cake is a neurological trick.
Shouldn't of the control group of done nothing at all?
Try vyvanse for those pesky food cravings.
eww I had chocolate. hated it since I was a child. As I child I also hated pizza but now I love it
It might be better to focus on the source of the craving. Why do I crave chocolate so much? The craving is a symptom of something else. Fooling your brain deals with the symptom but you'll have to deal with it again and again and again. It's like dealing with cold by using cold wraps. Does it work? Well yes but you didn't really solve the problem. You're better off trying to find out why you had fever in the first place.
+Hrnek Bezucha
Why does the craving have to be a symptom of something else? I'm not saying it couldn't be, but immediately reading a lot into it seems hastedly to me.
I think a likely and simple explanation, for me liking chocolate and sweets, is because I'm evolutionary hard wired to like high sugar stuff. I don't think I need a shrink for that.
Craving is an evolutionary necessity.I'm into fitness and my trainer told me that if you manage to get past the first two weeks of dieting,your cravings automatically reduce and it becomes easier for you to follow your nutrition plan.I have never made it past one week.Damn you chocolate!Hope this psychological trick helps.
Research shows that this doesn't hold up. The body craves Calories when they are in abundance, but there is no reason to think that people are motivated to eat these high-fat and high-sugar foods for any other reason. Chocolate may contain magnesium, but that amount is negligible compared to other food sources.
Does it work for coke though? lol
Is it applicable on carving sex? I doubt!
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Come on, The guy said just imagine! :)
So yeah this might work for food, but what about cigarettes and the like? You try imaging that you have smoked 30 cigarettes when you have actually smoked none....you will then want a cigarette a hell of a lot more than when you started lol.
now I want chocolate
If only that worked for pringles.
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What if I don't have cravings? How can I start having cravings so I can try this technique to give them up?
1. Buy a pack of cigs
2. force yourself to smoke all the cigs.
3. Repeat steps 1-2 20 times
4. try what the video says
5. buy more cigs because this shit doesn't work and now you are addicted.
But I need my ciggies here and there :'(
My tip, start smoking.
thanks, Goku!
+PotatoNetwork You mean Specifically tobacco, Goku? Cause the weeds gives me munchies
If you had an addiction to alcohol or drugs I doubt it would work.
I expected the usual ending of the videos here and now I'm disa
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That audio is appalling, get it right!
I imagined exercising three times a day. Now I no longer have that terrible craving.
THANK YOU Brit Lab!
I imagined becoming rich forty seven thousand times. Now I am poor.
THANK YOU Brit Lab!
As the wise Zen Master once said, " the only true way to escape your craving is to surrender to it." So, I had a bar of chocolate, a pint of ice-cream and smoked a pack of cigarettes while watching TH-cam. THANK YOU Brit Lab! ;-)
Yea but I wasn't part of the experiment, because I know full well I'd smash all the chocolate imagination or not..
I think I have a craving for water. Ill try this out to kick that habit. See you in 3 days
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this is the reason I don't travel. I can see videos and that does it for me... food on the other hand I don't think it's the same... I'll try it though
yeah but does this work with sex?
+Shubhankar Mukherjee No... if it did, most guys would never feel the need to have sex. I think the more "addictive" something is, the less it works. I tried it with smoking (just quit), and now I want a smoke even worse.
Damn :( this is quite misleading then I suppose. I have a near-unquenchable yearning for lust, and am not ashamed to admit it. I see it is a hindrance often though, it makes me manipulate people at times and it potentially can destroy friendships.
What about sex more you think more you get carved 😂😂
My sister craves attention, I'll be sure to inform her pf this
I control my cravings by being a rational thinking human being that has control over his actions
Tried this with humans, did not wotk
Be poor and scene
Eat a high carb, low fat vegan diet. 2500 calories for women, 3000 calories for men.
You don't need to control anything, you're young fit and handsome. VIDEO FAIL.
You don't need to control anything, you're young fit and handsome. VIDEO FAIL!
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