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

treated yourself to cookies or eggnog lattes or maybe had a few extra glasses of wine this holiday season?

Perhaps it was even a daily treat for a couple of days, a week, maybe even the last month.

You craved and ate those sugary treats, but deep down, you knew that later on you were

probably going to pay that price, that you would not feel well later. Maybe you would

feel tired or perhaps experience more aches and pains in those joints.

And of course, there's always those extra pounds that you always worry about.

But what else happens when you eat more sugary treats?

One answer to that question, which I'm sure most of us are very aware of, is that you want more and more and more.

How many of you can say that you can just stop at one?

For some people, that's the case, but for others, not so much.

So do you say to yourself just one more treat, and I promise I will start eating better tomorrow or on Monday

or on January 1st. But tomorrow or Monday never comes because you can't seem to stop at just one.

So today we want to discuss with you why you wanted more and more and more and what you can do to break that cycle and to control your cravings.

You may be wondering, am I the only one that struggles this much?

Am I the only one who experiences these intense cravings? And the answer

is a resounding no. I think if that were the case, Nikki and I wouldn't have jobs anymore.

So a little job security there. But the truth is that sugar and processed carbs affect many

different areas of your body and your brain.

And that helps to convince you or almost trick your body and your brain into thinking that

one more treat, one more isn't really going to hurt.

I can really relate to that, Leah, because I as aitian, used to think that. I am alone. What is

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