most recent 30 from http://paleohacks.com 2013-05-19T07:50:24Z http://paleohacks.com/feeds/user/3258 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://paleohacks.com/questions/1318/eliminating-food-cravings/23285#23285 Jennifer Crimson 2011-02-15T22:34:55Z 2011-02-15T22:34:55Z

<p>I have only been doing paleo for about 13 weeks and although I have been doing really well find that as of late I crave so badly things I have not allowed myself to have. Not really bread anymore sweets for sure. Today I went and bought a dark chocolate bar (over 70%) and instead of just being able to eat one portion it called to me from my desk drawyer until sadly it was almost gone. I have recently discovered nuts and chocolate are the best thing on earth so I threw in a handful of nuts. Both portions over the top in my mind. This to me is excessive as I just ate a banana about a half hour earlier. Is there a connection to the sugar in the banana - am I just depriving myself too much? I find I swing one way hard and the other way just as hard so although I do love this paleo and the energy and change in my physical shape, today is not a good day. This last couple of weeks, same thing. Crave, crave, crave. I need the occasional sweet thing as I find being too restrictive makes me crave worse. I bake with almond flour and use honey to sweeten, I bake with coconut flour, honey to sweeten - I want to stop this craving so any advice would be great. When I deprive I then over induldge when given the chance to eat that forbidden thing so this is not balance and I am striving for balance in all things. If I just quit the sweets altogether (no honey in baked goods, no sugar in the chocolate - even the good high cacao expensive stuff and no fruit) cold turkey for a fairly lenghty period of time will the cravings stop? Are there any fruits I can leave in while trying to rid myself of this sugar craving? Eliminating them altogether is going to be difficult but I am prepared to hear the truth if this is necessary.</p>