Day Seventeen

Lets talk about cravings.  We'll start with: What are they? According to the Internet dictionary, "intense desire(s) for something particular" (ok let's keep this clean here we're talking about food).

  We all gave up our "normal" eating habits for 30 days so I am sure that each one of us has something that we miss and wish that we could eat (or drink), but is it just that we miss having certain foods or are we actually craving them.  We are all missing certain things that we were eating seventeen days ago, but are we all craving these things or are we just letting ourselves think about it too much so we think we are craving it?.

I really try not to let myself think about what I can't have I try to concentrate on what I can have.  When I find my mind wondering and I start thinking about the fact that I can't have a glass of wine when I get home I try to redirect my thoughts to what I can have when I get home, or what we are going to make for dinner .  Since we were not used to cooking every night I tend to concentrate on what and how we are going to cook for dinner, instead of what I can't have.

It does make it easier not to have the foods we are missing around us or in plain sight.  It does make it easier to push it from your mind if you are not constantly teased by the foods you are missing.  It would make it harder on me if  I was constantly in the presence of a  nice glass of Chardonnay all the time, but I have  tried not to put myself in the situations where I would have that temptation around me.  I guess if I don't see it I don't really think about it.

So what  happens when we all start talking about the things we can't have, we start thinking that we can't have them and we start to think that we are craving them.  Is there anything that you can't have that you have an intense desire for?  Second reminder to get your mind out of the gutter we are talking about food.  I have not had a true craving for any specific food in the past seventeen days (yes I am even including wine in that statement).

See it want it, smell it want it, think about it want it, but crave it?  Not yet; thirteen days left maybe that will change as we get closer to the end, but right now I can honesty say there is no food or drink that I intensely desire.

No need to thank me for not listing all the favorites that we are missing so I don't start you thinking or maybe even craving.