Overcoming Cravings While on Medical hCG Diet

Each person is different but one thing is always the same.  Something triggers the want, need or desire to go on a diet.  It might be a reunion coming up or your clothes don’t fit right or something else, but something always triggers it.  Once you start dieting, then old cravings start to come back into play to try to trip you up and slow you down.  Everyone goes through it. However, when these cravings hit you let’s talk about some ways they can be overcome.
Cravings usually come from habits.  Some crave chips while watching sports.  Others crave ice creams, candy or soda during certaing times of the day or during tv shows.  So the first step to overcoming a craving is to recognize exactly what it is.  The reason many of us are on the Medical hCG diet is because we never learned how to handle these cravings so we would overeat. The inability to stop overeating is an issue that we all have to overcome while on the hCG diet.
One of the main things people really need to eat while on the hCG diet are foods with fiber in them. This really gets things moving in your body and helps a lot in weight loss. Fresh foods are best and frozen is your next choice. Stay away from canned or boxed items due to preservatives.  Below we are going to look at some areas of typical concern and how we can better handle them.
Salty Foods- (high in sodium)-This is one of the worst things you can do.  Salt forces the body to retain water and is the main cause of bloating.  We’ve all been a victim of it before and it is important to know what is going on when you eat a lot of salty foods.  Salty foods also trigger something in your brain to keep eating them.  That’s why it is so hard to stop at one chip.  When you crave salt then pick something else.  Have a vegetable like squash with your dinner.  If you have some chicken on your lettuce for dinner then throw some seasonings on there to help overcome this craving.  Just be smart about it.  Instead of reaching for the chips just use different seasonings that are approved and you’ll get past it. 
Sugar Snacks-I consider myself a sugaraholic and whenever I would get started on one piece of candy I would go to another and then another.  It was crazy and the first thing I craved when on the Medical hCG diet.  I learned to overcome this fairly easily when  realized what some good substitutes were.  The first thing I did was have fruit that was cut up already and in the fridge or frozen.  I was prepared so that when the craving came I could go to the fridge and get my cut up fruit. 
Just remember…when you make a mistake you can’t go back and change it but you can stop doing it and learn from it.  When you make a mistake on the Medical hCG diet it is the exact same.  Learn from it and don’t do it again.