Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Cravings

What are food cravings? Food cravings are your bodies way of telling you that you are missing something. A craving basically means that you are deficient in a nutrient. For example, if a man craves chocolate then he is deficient in magnesium. Your body doesn't have any way to diferentiate between the various nutrients so it just sends hunger signals with cravings for certain foods. The reason why many diets fail is that many people cut their calories very low. If the person is already low in nutrients then cutting their calories lower will only lower the levels of nutrients in their body. Having low levels of nutrients in your body will make it hard to stick to your diet because you are going to get cravings. Having low levels of nutrients in you body also makes it hard to lose fat because your body cannot regulate hormones or detoxify without proper levels of nutrients.

Workout of the Day
1 min ring row, pushpress, squat jumps
3 rounds with 1 min between rounds

1 min pushups, db swings, hollow rocks
3 rounds with 1 min between rounds

1 comment:

Unknown said...

So it it not just because I am fat, but actually nutrient deficient that I crave Fast Breaks. That makes me feel better about myself.

-bill
"bloody ,but unbowed"