The top 5 reasons you still have cravings

Follow the Wheat Belly lifestyle and you should be freed of hunger and cravings except when physiologically appropriate, e.g., you haven’t eaten anything in 8 hours. Many of us eat breakfast, for instance, then have no desire for food until dinner. Or you have a healthy lunch at noon, then forget to eat dinner. In other words, the incessant, rolling, rumbling hunger that plagues modern people that can account for aggressive, even angry, food quests simply goes away and you are left with a soft reminder that it might be nice to eat sometime in the next few hours. If you are following this lifestyle properly, you should not be experiencing hunger and cravings, say, 2 hours after a meal, or feel desperate hunger prior to every meal, or wake up in the middle of the night craving something. If you are experiencing such feelings, then consider this list of the 5 most common reasons you are experiencing such inappropriate impulses: You are still being exposed to wheat and related grains–The Wheat Belly lifestyle is a 100%, complete, no-compromise, wheat- and grain-free lifestyle. Anything short of this will booby-trap your health and weight loss efforts, just as an alcoholic who sneaks a sip of bourbon every now and then will eventually succumb. “Cutting back,” “I eat them only when there’s nothing else,” “a ‘bad’ day once per week”—all such “indulgences” will drive appetite, often to extravagant de...
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