Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition with licensed nutritionists and dietitians from nutritional weight and wellness.

We explain the connection between what you eat and how you feel.

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Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

This morning, our discussion is all about cravings and how you can control these cravings,

especially carb cravings.

We thank you for listening to Dishing Up Nutrition today, and we're eager to share some

ways that you can curb your carb cravings.

But first, I have a couple of questions for you.

Did you get through this past month, the month of January, without falling off your

healthy eating plan? I don't know if you made any New Year's resolutions surrounding the

new year, but did you get through it? Did you make it through? Or did those carb cravings

sidetrack you? Did you find yourself hunting down those leftover Christmas cookies that you hid

maybe in the back of the freezer? So you'd think you'd forget about them or maybe out in the

garage perhaps. Yeah. After working with many clients over the years, I'm quite certain you said,

I'm only going to eat one cookie. However, before you even knew what was happening,

that one cookie led to two, then maybe three, until the entire box or container of cookies

was all gone. Sugar and carbs have a way of taking you off course of your best intentions.

It's almost as though you fell head first into that box of cookies,

or perhaps it felt like the cookies were controlling you,

rather than you controlling the amount that you were going to eat.

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