Hello and welcome back to Ask a Nutritionist, our weekly mini episode of Dishing Up Nutrition.

I'm Leah Kleintrot, registered and licensed dietician with nutritional weighting wellness.

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today's topic, I want to remind and invite listeners to join our Dishing Up Nutrition Facebook

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us right there. And we'll hope you'll join us. So today

we're going to dive into something we all deal with at some point and that's cravings. So

everyone's a little bit different. Some people lean more towards the sweet. Some people lean more

towards the salty, the crunchy. For other people, it's the chocolate.

It can vary the time of day, morning, noon, night. We've all been there at one point or another.

But here's the thing. Cravings aren't random. Cravings are usually your body trying to tell you something.

So when I sit down with clients, I will often use the verbiage, like we're going to be detectives.

We're going to get really curious and ask a lot of questions and just try to figure out what is our body trying to communicate us.

What are our bodies trying to get us to see or pay attention to?

And that can give us a lot of great insights into what's going on lifestyle-wise, diet-wise, anything like that that could help

with those cravings. So today I'm going to offer some of just the clinical insights from myself

and my colleagues. We're going to break down why cravings

happen, how to tell if you're actually hungry, and then what to do and what to eat when those

cravings actually hit. So let's get into it. First, let's answer the question, why do I get cravings?

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