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I am Leah Kleintrote.

I am a registered and licensed dietitian.

And this morning, Nikki Daring is with me here in studio.

Nikki is also a registered and licensed dietitian, and we have a really interesting topic for you all today. The topic is, what do my cravings mean? Did that perk your ears up a little bit?

I wanted to start really briefly just to give you a definition of what cravings actually are.

So this is taken from a blog post that we at Nutritional Weight and Wellness wrote last summer.

And the definition for cravings, the Miriam Webster definition for cravings, is an intense, urgent, or abnormal desire or longing.

It also goes on to say that cravings are in irritation within the system.

So then you take those two definitions when you combine them, it means that cravings are an intense irritation.

So does that ring true for anyone out there in the audience today?

Would you just- Yeah, would you describe those cravings as intense irritations, things that preoccupy your mind. You can't get your thoughts off them until you

actually satisfy that craving. Some of our clients talk about chocolate cravings being one thing

that they crave. So that's very common. I hear that all the time when I'm counseling clients.

I do too. Yeah. But Nikki, what do you crave specifically? Oh, put me in the

hot seat. Um, sugar. I'm definitely, you know, a candy sugar person. I have to be really careful with

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