Train your brain to crave healthy foods

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  1. truebluefan

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    Looking back on it, Wendy Fox thinks it was the M&M's that did her in.

    They sat in a glass bowl on her living room table, taunting her every time she walked by, seemingly calling out for her to scoop up a few and eat them. Eat them she did, as well as anything else chocolaty that crossed her path, such as a brownie at her favorite restaurant or a mocha drink at Starbucks.

    Fox's chocolate cravings (and three pregnancies) helped her gain 40 pounds in her 30s.

    "It wasn't pretty," says Fox, 41, a real estate agent in Weston, Massachusetts.

    Unhappy with her growing figure -- she'd gone from a size 4 to a size 10 -- Fox watched as her mother lost 30 pounds. Her mother, who also craves sweets, had attended a program with nutritionist Susan Roberts at Tufts University to curb cravings and suggested Fox do the same.

    "At my first meeting with Sue, I told her, 'You've met your challenge,' " Fox remembers with a laugh.

    Roberts, author of "The Instinct Diet," explained to Fox that there's a biological reason most of us crave ice cream and not broccoli, but we can unlearn our instincts. It worked. After 14 months, Fox now craves salads instead of M&M's, has lost 36 pounds and is back down to a size 4.

    Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/08/04/ep.brain.crave.cohen/index.html
     
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    M&M's are hardcore bad.
     
  3. saunastubes

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    It is eating a good foods like green vegetable. You can do eat regular, sleep regular, Exercise regular, Yoga regular. You fit your body and mind to all that function. Really I use morning exercise and evening Yoga.
     

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