If you are going to be successful breaking your food addictions, this is a necessity. While you may have great willpower, it helps tremendously to have a substitute item to eat when your cravings are strongest.
Some suggestions:
If you are addicted to chocolate:
1. Cocoa Energy Chunks (Whole Foods and Natural Grocer - be careful, get the type that does not have sugar in it). My favorite are the 'Organic Chunks of Energy Cacao Goji'.
2. Make some chocolate peanut butter or almond butter cups (make mini ones) and put them in the freezer. Or make one of the other chocolate desserts, such as brownies or decadent chocolate custard. Cut the brownies into small chunks and freeze them so you can grab one when craving some chocolate. Or our favorite this summer has been chocolate pudding with chocolate milk.
If you are addicted to sodas (caffeine and sugar):
1. This one is harder to break because of the caffeine withdrawal symptoms. But find something else to drink, like Izzie sodas or another fruit-juice sweetened soda.
2. Better still, make yourself some homemade herbal ice tea, such as mint tea.
3. Or make another fun drink such as water with essence of fruit in it or a spritzer with fruit and sparkling water. Freeze some organic strawberries, or orange slices, or other fruit you like for your fun drink.
3. Or make another fun drink such as water with essence of fruit in it or a spritzer with fruit and sparkling water. Freeze some organic strawberries, or orange slices, or other fruit you like for your fun drink.
If you are addicted to sweets:
1. Make and freeze some cookies. Remember to make small bite-size cookies.
2. Find a dried fruit you like, such as dried mango (one of my favorites), dried apricots, or dried figs. Be sure to buy organic dried fruits since conventional ones are treated with sulfur.
3. Buy and eat lots of fresh fruit (know which to buy organic).
If you are addicted to salt:
1. Make some air-baked popcorn, topped with good quality butter and sprinkled with a good quality sea salt. Bag up in small Ziploc bags. This is a great addiction for kids lunches.
2. Have some organic tortilla chips with salsa. This is a really excellent snack with fresh salsa.
3. Buy some sesame sticks or dried veggie chips to munch on.
I hope this gives you some ideas. The important thing is to find a replacement food(s) to have on hand. If you only have good quality snack foods available, then that will help you not eat the addictive, heavily processed, poor quality ones that wreck havoc with your health and weight. Be sure to stock up on some of these replacement foods this week so you have them readily available next week. They will, of course, not be a direct replacement and fully satisfy your cravings (because the foods you are addicted to have man-made chemicals and engineered combinations of sugar/fat/salt to make you crave them), but they will help tremendously as you break your addictions.
Be in prayer about your addictions too, because next week we will start to work on breaking them. It may seem like an insurmountable task at the moment to you, but I know you can do it if I could do it. It takes some will-power, some support and encouragement, and definitely the conviction to succeed, but I am confident that you will look back and rejoice at your accomplishment!
I believe in God's promises in the Bible. If you think that there is no way that you can do this on your own - I would agree. But as it says in the Bible, with God, all things are possible. So give it to God. Tell God you know you can't do it and tell Him that you need Him and with God, you CAN overcome your food addictions!
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26
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