Your Questions About Stop Food Cravings Pregnant

Drae answers:

How to conquer your cravings.

1. Start with a healthy breakfast. It reduces cravings later in the
day.

2. Use foods to hold blood sugar steady. This means emphasising
low-glycemic-index foods, such as beans, vegetables, fruit, and pasta
to keep blood sugar from going on a roller coaster (which can be
caused by white bread and sugar, for example) that can trigger changes.

3. Dieters: Use the Rule of Ten. If you are dieting, be sure not to
starve yourself, because extreme hunger triggers cravings. Eat AT
LEAST 10 calories per pound of your ideal weight per day.

4. If you crave a food every day at the same time, plan an activity,
such as a walk or visit with a friend, that is inconsistent with
eating.

5. Have regular exercise and rest.

6. Use social support. Let your family and friends know that you
need help.

7. Take advantage of other motivators. Young people can be motivated
to avoid meat because of concerns about animals or the environment. A
married man might avoid junk food if he remembers that he needs to
stay well to take care of his family.

Drae answers:

You are eating the wrong foods. You should be eating lots and often, but the foods you eat should have a high fullness factor.

Pancakes are fantastic! The are low in calories, high in complex carbohydrates, and are bulky and satisfying. The thing that makes pancakes fattening is the syrups and toppings we use.

There’s a great miracle food called okara, that’s a by-product of making soymilk, that adds to the bulk or pancakes, muffins, cookies, etc and reduces the calories. Problem is you can’t buy it. But you can make it yourself and it’s cheap. I have a 17-page instruction/recipe e-booklet I can send you. Just write to me and put ‘okara’ in the subject line.

You can also make your own no-calorie maple syrup while your pancakes are cooking and I’ll be happy to send you a recipe for that too, if you want.

If you’d like a list of great bulky foods lto help you, just let me know.

Cal Smith

Drae answers:

You can’t use food cravings to determine whether or not you’re pregnant … Normal non-pregnant individuals have food cravings. I never had food cravings with either of my pregnancies.

If you are 2 days late … You can take a test.

Drae answers:

Oh I’m the same way, I now live in Canada and it is not as easy to get somethings here as it was in the USA, I get cravings for star fruit, many people dont know what they are, but oh I love them, just to slice and eat or to cook with, made a wonderful porkchop dinner with the star fruit and rice and such, our friends claimed they didnt like star fruit, well need less to say they ate the dinner and then enjoyed fresh cheesecake with starfruit on it and didnt see them pushing it away… I think we all go thru phases of craving certain foods at times, now that I seen the green olives well ya know what I’m headed to the store for .. Lol

Drae answers:

Well, I’m not pregnant anymore, but. . . When I was pregnant (atleast in the beginning) I had a strong craving for the mashed potatoes from KFC. Don’t ask me why? I had to have corn, cheese and gravy on the potatoes. Haha. I ate there everyday for a whole week.

I also had to have not only the pickles, but the juice. I’d drink the pickle juice from the jar. Just had to HAVE it. Teehee.