Cravings

5 Tips To Avoid Holiday “Binge Eating”

by Andréa on December 17, 2011 · 0 comments

Get Your Eating Under Control…

Overeating Help!

by Andréa Albright

Tips To Stop Overeating…

The only way to avoid overeating and “binge eating” at holiday parties is to be prepared ahead of time.

If you go simply hoping that your “willpower” will carry you through it, then you are setting yourself up for disappointment, cravings, and fat storage. 

This year, you can show up with confidence knowing that you are going to be in control, even if everyone else around you is not.

Here are the 5 things you can do to avoid overeating and “binge eating” at holiday parties:

1. Call ahead and ask about the menu

And don’t just stop with the menu. Feel free to also ask about ingredients. Many people are always “sneaking in” butter and fat into dishes that you would think are healthy.

2. Eat a small “mini-Meal” prior to the event

If you arrive on an empty stomach, then your blood sugar levels will be dangerously low and your body will be desperate for energy.

This is what’s going to lead you straight to the most fattening dishes because your body knows where to get the calories and the sugar rush that it’s craving.  

Eat a small, healthy “mini-Meal” before you leave and you will arrive with a positive mood, lots of energy, and no cravings!

(BTW.. I’ll show you exactly where to get a complete list of healthy holiday “mini-Meals” at the bottom of this article).

3. Go for the salad first

This should always be your first stop so that you guarantee your body is getting the nutrition it needs and you’re filling up on
healthy options.

4. Choose lean sources of protein and vegetable-based dishes

Be open to vegetarian options. Plant sources of protein include lentils, soy, quinoa, and tempeh (made of fermented soy beans).  

The next leanest proteins are fish, seafood, turkey and chicken, in that order.

Beef is one of the most fattening protein sources.

5. Eat fruit for dessert before you take a bite of sugar

Eat plain fruit first, before heading to that desert tray.

This way, you can actually take a couple of bites of your favorite holiday deserts without eating the whole thing! Getting a healthy sugar fix will prevent intense sugar crashes, sugar withdrawal symptoms, and added weight gain.

When you plan ahead, it’s amazing how much more willpower you have to pass on the fattening foods and say YES to healthy holiday feasting. 

Every time you follow these 5 simple steps to avoid holiday binge eating, it gets easier and easier.

Soon, this will become your new healthy habit, and it will become second nature without any struggle or feeling like you’re sacrificing on pleasure. 

You will love the inner confidence, amazing energy, and satisfaction you feel from knowing you are celebrating the holidays the healthiest way possible without binge eating and fat storage.

And I want to make sure that there is nothing stopping you from living your healthiest holiday season ever.

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Simple Tips For Weight Loss

by Andréa on November 23, 2011 · 0 comments

 

 

Change Your Life With These Weight Loss Tips…

Learn Tips For Weight Loss And How To Lose Fat.

by Andréa Albright

Cravings will control you… if you let them.

They will drive you crazy and destroy your chances of losing weight. Cravings will sneak up on you when you are at your weakest moments, and seduce you with their powers…

But if you can resist them for a few days, you can control them forever.

Follow this one simple tip to control your cravings, and you will see that after a few days, it gets much, much easier.

Let’s start here…

Cravings Will Come And Go

When you are having a mad craving for something that’s fattening or sugary (like french fries or chocolate) you may think the only way to eliminate that craving is to eat it…But here’s something that took me years to figure out…

Cravings are your mind’s confusion.

You may think that your body wants that fat load or that sugar rush, but your body is sending you that craving because it is starving for nutrition.

It may be desperate for a certain mineral or vitamin because it needs that for ONE of your body’s biological processes (there are millions, by the way).

Your body is always going through many different chemical reactions at once, and it needs vitamins and minerals to complete those tasks. But if the mineral or vitamin is not there, then your body sends out the signal “Need Food. Eat Now”.

Your body knows that if it can just get you eating, then it might get that vitamin or mineral that it is lacking.

French Fries Are Not A Vitamin

Your mind interprets this “Eat Now” signal as a craving for something with high fat and sugar because from past experiences your mind remembers that these foods gave you the most pleasure and the biggest “hit” of euphoria.

Your mind takes this opportunity to go after what it wants the most – pleasure.

And that’s not a good or a bad thing… it’s just the way our brain is wired. But unfortunately, pleasure will not help your body’s shortage of nutrition.

That’s why you often still have cravings even after you eat junk food or really sugary, fattening foods. Haven’t you ever wondered why you can never seem to “satisfy” your cravings?

“Feed Me Semore!”

It’s like that musical “Little Shop Of Horrors” with the venus fly trap plant that could never get enough blood and eventually started eating people alive just to get it’s fix.

It’s the same with your cravings.

Your body is screaming out “Feed Me Some More!” over and over again. You can eat, and eat, and you may feel relieved temporarily but the cravings always come back.

And that’s because you’re not going to the source of the problem – Your Body is Lacking Nutrition. So the next time you have an intense craving why not try something different?

Make a deal with yourself.

Tell yourself that you can eat whatever you are craving only AFTER you eat a nutritious “mini-meal” first. And then after you eat it, take a moment and tune into yourself.

You may find that the intense craving you had before is gone… or at least it has been reduced to a craving that you can control.

And the more often you do this, the easier it will be to control the cravings you get, and then you will start to get less and less cravings…Why does this happen?

Your body will be getting what it NEEDS (nutrition!) and the craving signals will become weaker and weaker until they finally disappear forever. This is how it starts.

The healthy process of losing weight is a journey that starts with a simple step. This is how it happens, if you allow it.

One Simple Tip To Control Cravings

–> Eat A Nutritious ‘mini-Meal’ Before You Eat What You’re Craving

Put this up on your computer at work or on a post-it on your mirror in your bathroom. Just try experimenting with this tip this week and see how it works for you.

Enjoy the process as it’s unfolding. The body knows what it needs, and when you give it what’s it’s truly craving, you live FREE.

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Heidi

by MikeHill on August 20, 2011 · 0 comments

“I’m A Mom That Lost 20 Pounds In 5 Weeks!”

 

Success Story #35

Heidi

Mother of 2

 

I started by watching your videos on YouTube that motivated me to start –

I am 20 pounds lighter today.

I am a mother of two children, for anybody out there that knows what it’s like – after having kids it takes lots of hard work to get that body back.

I was inspired automatically.  Andrea knows from her own past experience she knows what it’s like to feel depressed and not fit into clothes that you like to wear.

I used to dread the summer.  And now I know I have to change me I know that – she gave me the motivation to start.

It feels good when you look in the mirror and notice it and the more you feel good about what’s happening today and how to take caer of your body.

You immediately see results.

Watch Her Video Here ….

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Binge Eating At Night – 5 Steps To Stop

by Andréa on June 10, 2011 · 0 comments

 

Why Is It So Easy To Pig Out At Nighttime?

 

There is a way to stop this negative habit of binge eating at night that is destroying your chances of losing weight.

Just because you have always done it… and maybe every one in your family has always done it… it is still just another one of those pesky negative habits that CAN be broken.

Let me show you how to look at the “deeper” issues surrounding nighttime binge eating and take a closer look at what’s really going on here. The answers may surprise you…

 


 

Question From Reader

 

Hi Andrea ~

I am on an antidepressant called Remeron, which people tend to put weight on while on it.  I cannot be without it.  I have a voracious appetite at night – probably because I am alone. Hubby goes to sleep real early.  What are some good snacks to eat later at night that won’t put the lbs. on?  I need some comfort food I think!

Thanks!

Lydia

 

My Response

 

Everything I’ve researched, studied, and observed in myself and others about late night binge eating revolves around this…

You’re not GIVING to your Self enough during the day! And I’m not just talking about food. It’s MORE than just giving your body the right nutrients from food… but that’s where it starts.

When you don’t eat often enough DURING the daylight hours, at nighttime you pig out.

Here’s why…

During the day, it’s easy to stay distracted from your hunger and not think about it because you can preoccupy yourself with work, family, busy errands, etc.

You are also releasing a lot of stress hormones (like coristol) which slows your metabolism down so you don’t FEEL how hungry your body is. And if you’re drinking caffeine, this is also an appetite suppressant.

So in other words… you are probably starving during the daytime, but YOU DON’T KNOW IT. And as soon as nighttime hits, BAMM!… The hunger takes you over.

 

At Night, Everything Slows Down

At nighttime, your body and mind naturally go into a more relaxed state and the stress hormones start to decrease preparing for sleep.

This speeds your metabolism back UP and your body starts to send out “HUNGER” signals because it’s been starving all day long, but you haven’t been listening to it.

But like I said, it’s not just about the food. Nighttime is also the time when we are confronted by our true emotions.  If you’re feeling lonely, sad, or depressed, it’s easier to not think about it during the day because you are in “survival mode” – working and running from place to place and thought to thought. But, there’s nothing much to do but to BE with yourself and your thoughts.

This can be a very scary place to be if you aren’t actively training your mind to focus on thepositive.
Controlling your thoughts is not the easiest thing in the world to do, but everything worthwhile is worth putting some effort into it, right? Especially when it will give you such a big payoff and bring you so much happiness INSIDE your mind.

And that’s not all…

Get Those Good Feelings With Healthy Choices Instead Of Destructive Ones

 

We turn to food to make us feel good when our bodies aren’t able to make those “feel good” hormones on our own.

The food you eat, your body’s activity level, and your mind’s level of peace and stillness ALL affect your emotional state.

We have to play an ACTIVE role in creating our health and feel-good bliss, otherwise we fall apart. And yes… this happens to everyone.

If we don’t proactively care for ourselves and CREATE the blissful feelings of euphoria naturally, then we will turn to food to “comfort” us.

The food is a drug that gives a numbing, dulling sensation and an artificial high, but it comes atthe high price of our health and happiness.

This food-induced euphoria is only an escape. It’s NOT a solution. The food will never give you that LOVE you are searching for. Only YOU can give yourself that LOVE that you need.

Health = LOVE for your Body.

The good news, is that when you give yourself HEALTH, and make healthy choices to feed your body, your emotions, your mind, and your spirit… You are giving yourself the LOVE that you crave.

It really is that simple.  See for yourself…

 

5 Steps To Break Free From Binge Eating At Night

Here’s what I would do… You can try this as an “experiment” and let me know how it goes.

Step #1:  Eat 5 Small Meals Of Natural Food Throughout The Day Every 2 Hours, Even When You’re Not “Hungry”.

 

MAKE yourself eat 5 healthy, small meals a day and soon it will become your NEW habit like you’re on autopilot. The thing about e

ating 5 meals a day, is you WILL be eating at night, but you will be eating LESS of it because you’re not starving all day and binging at night.

It’s important to eat natural, Healthy Foods. These healthy foods will not trigger the binge eating like processed junk food does.  When you eat natural and healthy foods, you will be feeding yourself the nutrition that your body and mind are starving for.

This will turn OFF that “hunger” signal that your body is sending you when you indulge in junk food full of chemicals, fat, and sugar.

So what are these healthy foods?

It would take too long to list all of them here, but I tell you exactly what foods are healthy in my eBook. If you don’t have a copy yet, you can get that here: Healthy Foods For Weight Loss

So it’s not like you’re trying to starve yourself at nighttime, you just don’t want to be “binge eating” and eating MORE at night than you do during the daytime.

Do you see the difference?

Eating a small, healthy meal is GOOD FOR YOU as long as it’s not processed junk food.

And here’s what to do about that…

 

Step #2:  Get Rid Of All The Junk Food In Your House.

 

This way you won’t be tempted to pig out on it because it’s just sitting there torturing you.

In the beginning, it’s going to be difficult to break this negative habit of binge eating at night, and you need all the leverage you can get on yourself.

If you have to go outside of the house to get the junk, then it will be ONE more step you have to take… and that might be the step that saves you from pigging out.

 

Step #3: Eat As Many Dark Green Vegetables As You Can!

 

This will increase your seratonin (those natural “feel good” hormones your body makes) levels and make you feel happier.

I have a friend that started eating a bag of those collard greens every day (the kind that are pre-washed and you can buy at the grocery store). She would saute them in garlic and olive oil (which is delicious) and her serotonin levels increased so much that she was able to get off antidepressants. It works!

Eat green vegetables EVERY day as often as you can.  This will boost your mood and your health.

Step # 4: Use Your Alone Time To Feed Your Spirit.

Start reading beautiful spiritual-filled books that lift you up (I really love “The Power Of Now” by Echart Tolle, “The Seat Of The Soul” by Gary Zukav, and “The Seeker’s Guide” by Elizabeth Lesser).

Write in your journal all your deepest thoughts – it’s healing to get it all out.

Or if you’re an artist, then create the beautiful art that is inside of you – it WANTS to come out and be seen by the world.

In other words, make your alone time “special”time that you get to feed your passion and spirit.
You will start to cherish the time you have to spend by yourself because you will use this time as your healing time that is a gift.

 

Step #5:  Start Practicing Yoga And Meditation.

 

Turns out the modern world is not where stress, confusion and disconnection was invented… Human beings have been dealing with this for thousands of years, and probably since the dawn of consciousness.

By studying the ancient science of yoga and meditation, you can learn how millions of others have overcome the struggle within themselves by connecting to the infinite love, light, peace and truth that is inside of themselves.

So try those out and let me know how it goes. I’m sending you love and light to surround you on your journey into health!

 

 

 

 

Success Story

 

Dear Andrea,

Thank you so much for all the newsletters and tips (secrets), you’re a great inspiration.  I feel like you’re walking on this road with me and that’s great.  In the past when I was trying to lose weight I felt alone and not inspired. You changed all that.

Since I started watching your video’s on You Tube and got your eBook, I’ve been eating much healthier and I’ve lost 14.3 pounds. I feel so much better already but I still have about 74 pounds to lose, the only difference is this time I don’t feel so alone on this journey.

YOU’RE A GREAT INSPIRATION!

Kind Regards,

Rachel from South Africa

 

My Response

 

I am SO proud of you and SO happy for you.

You ARE on the right track.  You’ve already gotten over the first “push” which is the hardest part of building new positive habits.

I am so glad that you liked my videos and this message that “clicked” with you.

Isn’t it amazing how the body will heal itself and release the weight that it’s been holding onto when you start to give your body what it NEEDS?

You are feeling INSPIRED because you’ve tapped into something inside of you… that’s where the true power of transformation comes from.

And you’re right, you are not alone!

Thank you for writing in with your success story so that I can share it with every other women who is reading this newsletter right now…

We are ALL on this journey together, after all!

I know that it can feel like an endless battle, and like you are lost and alone… but you are NOT alone. I’m here for you.

You are my inspiration.

 

 

Your Friend In Natural Weight Loss,
Love and Light,

 

 

 

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How To Stop Cravings & Lose Weight

by Andréa on December 20, 2007 · 0 comments

Your Body Needs Nourishment…

Cravings Are Your Body’s Confusion

By Andréa Albright

What Is Your Body Actually Craving?

I know that you probably feel like when you have a craving, the only thing that makes it go away is to eat the craving, right?

When you want French fries, you need French fries and that’s the only time that it’ll stop your obsession with French fries.  Well, I’ve discovered a different approach. 

Watch This Video To Find Out The Answer…

I have been addicted to fried foods, to red meat, and to sugar.

I use to think that I had to eat all those foods every day and through breaking those addictions, I realized a lot about cravings and what they really mean.

You think you want French fries but really, your body is trying to tell you something.

When your body does not have the right balance of vitamins and minerals, it will send out a signal trying to get you to eat something just this very powerful eat now, eat now, I need a vitamin, I need a mineral.

And you get that sensation, I need to eat something because if your body can get you eating, the odds of it getting that mineral are much higher than if you’re just not eating, right?

So your body is trying to say, I need this, I need this; you’ve got to start eating.

You think you want French fries because you saw an advertisement or you walked by a fast food restaurant and you smelled the fries cooking, but that translation between your body saying, I’m needing a mineral or a vitamin and up to your brain that says, I want French fries; it’s miscommunicating.

It’s confusing.

And what happens is you go and eat those French fries because you think that’s what you want. You eat the French fries and what happens right after? You crave something else, right?

Usually, you might want something sweet or something a little bit heavier. All of a sudden, you have another craving for something else.

Well, if you’re craving was satisfied by the French fries then the cravings would go away completely.

But now your body is like, okay try to get her to eat something else because I still didn’t get that vitamin or that mineral that I need, and then you go and you eat something sweet thinking, that’s what I want because that’s what I’m craving.

Well, You Can Turn This Process Around Just Like I Did!

 

The way I did it was, I started eating whole natural foods not processed junk food.

Processed foods, contains so much chemicals; so much crap and there’s very little nutrition if any nutrition at all that you can literally be stuffed and starving at the same time.

You’re stuffed on junk food, French fries, hamburgers, pizza, but you’re starving to death. Your body is not getting any vitamins, any minerals that it needs and so that’s why it’s telling you to eat all the time. I’m starving over here is what your body is saying.

When you start eating whole natural foods, your body gets what it needs. It gets the vitamins, it gets the minerals and so, therefore, you don’t have cravings. You don’t have that overwhelming desire to eat French fries and pizza because really that’s just up here.

It’s Just Psychological!

 

You think that you want that, but really your body needs nourishment, needs nutrition.

And by just turning your diet around to whole foods that are natural, you’ll notice that you’re not craving French fries and pizza and chocolate like you used to and you’ll think that it’s something miraculous, but it’s just because this is your natural way of living. This is how you’re supposed to feel.

When you give your body the nourishment, the nutrition, the vitamins that it needs, it doesn’t send out these powerful craving ‘to eat, eat and eat signals’ and then you feel more control of your life and of your body.

And that’s what happened to me and I’ve seen it happen to lots of other women too. I know that it can happen in your life.

Find out more information about cravings and about psychological messages that you’re sending and how to interpret the signals that are coming from your body.

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