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**Tusanoc** · 06-16-2009, 01:08 AM

This diet, like so many others, is different from person to person. I never craved those things because I didn't crave them before the diet,

I did however stop craving foods in general before too long. I was no longer constantly hungry, no longer crazily waiting for my next meal, and was generaly not nearly as hungry as when not on the Atkins.

If you are doing the diet correctly, then I think you should stop having the cravings within 3 days to the whole first 2 weeks of induction because that could be the time that it physically takes your body to change its processes. If you are having the cravings after that then I think it could be psychological. You are still remembering how good that food used to taste and how happy you felt when you were eating it. Its like smoking and other addictions. As far as I'm concerened they are half mental and half physical. The Atkins will get you over the physical, the mental part will be your job. This diet, like so many others, will require some will-power. There is no magic pill.

06-16-2009, 01:08 AM	#2
Tusanoc Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 483 Senior Member	This diet, like so many others, is different from person to person. I never craved those things because I didn't crave them before the diet, I did however stop craving foods in general before too long. I was no longer constantly hungry, no longer crazily waiting for my next meal, and was generaly not nearly as hungry as when not on the Atkins. If you are doing the diet correctly, then I think you should stop having the cravings within 3 days to the whole first 2 weeks of induction because that could be the time that it physically takes your body to change its processes. If you are having the cravings after that then I think it could be psychological. You are still remembering how good that food used to taste and how happy you felt when you were eating it. Its like smoking and other addictions. As far as I'm concerened they are half mental and half physical. The Atkins will get you over the physical, the mental part will be your job. This diet, like so many others, will require some will-power. There is no magic pill.
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