What cravings mean

your body is a pretty cool machine

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It used to be impossible to stay on top of your macro and micro nutrients.

Not only was there no way to log what you’re eating, but you had no idea what was in what you were eating.

And yet, humans survived.

They lived.

They were able to eat the right stuff. They knew what to eat if they were deficient in something. They had intuition.

This intuition wasn’t something that they’d gathered through super high intellect though, it was through cravings.

The body has an incredible sense of taste/texture, it’s able to register these sensations as specific nutrients.

In moments when the body is deficient in something, it can signal a craving for that type of food.

This is a large reason humans were able to survive instead of being given an “go get calcium” sort of thought.

So how can this help your diet?

Well for starters you can easily use this mini guide to tell whether or not you’re deficient in something, but on top of that, this will help fix cravings in a tricky diet.

Cravings

Deficiency

Low Cal Swaps

Savoury Carbs (Bread/Pasta/Rice)

B2/B3/Protein

Edemame/Chicken Breast

Chocolate

Magnesium

Spinach

Salty Foods

Sodium/Chloride

Soup with a salty broth

Fatty Foods

Calcium/EFAs

Calcium: Skimmed Milk
EFAs: Sesame Oil

Sugary Foods

Chromium/Phosphorus Tryptophan

Chromium/Phosphorus: Broccoli
Tryptophan: Turkey

Ice

Iron

Red Meat

Citrus Foods

Vitamin C

Lemon/Grapefruit

Red Meat

Iron

Red Meat

Crunchy vegetables

Fibre

Any vegetables!

Dairy

Calcium

Skimmed Milk

Coffee

Magnesium

Spinach

To be honest, this is a bit of a pseudo-science.

At most, there truly is a connection between cravings and deficiencies.

However, if that isn’t true. At least you get an easy swap to remove a craving.

Let me know how it goes.

Your Hypertrophy Hero,
Fletcher

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