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Food cravings are one of the biggest reasons people fail with their diet program. We’ve all experienced cravings for our favorite foods when dieting, but have you also wondered what the meaning of food cravings could be?
There could be a reason why they appear and discovering what causes food cravings could also help us overcome them.
For one thing, food cravings have an emotional basis, this is also known as emotional eating. For example, when you sit in front of the TV at night and, despite having eaten, you are now also eating something. This is not because you are hungry, but possibly because you feel lonely. Food has become your friend or has replaced your partner and what you really want is the company of someone who values you. But since this feeling is not available to you at the time, the pleasure of eating acts as an easy replacement because it is cheap and readily available in today’s society.
However, the emotional meanings of food cravings are not always so obvious, but can also be connected to many other negative emotions or events in your life. Since one may not always be aware of the connections, methods with a somewhat psychological undertone, such as Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) or the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), can help deal with these kinds of cravings.
A second important meaning of food cravings is simply the body’s cry for more nutrients. You may be eating the wrong foods, for example, too much junk food with lots of calories, but a low density of valuable vitamins and minerals. While it would obviously make more sense if your body were craving carrots instead of a donut in this case, it doesn’t seem to work that way.
You usually crave what you’re used to eating, because your body knows that’s the food that’s available. And now your body is giving you a signal for more food to extract more of whatever nutrient it’s deficient in.
Another aspect of the nutritional side of meaning of food cravings is the sharp fluctuations in blood sugar. Eating too many refined carbohydrates has been shown to lead to a high spike in blood sugar, followed by the release of insulin. This, in turn, often allows the blood sugar to drop rapidly to a level even below where it was before the meal was consumed, stimulating the appetite again.
Keeping these two main meanings of food cravings in mind, cravings are more efficiently eliminated when both the emotional and nutritional sides are addressed.