When you’re trying to lose weight or keep up a healthful lifestyle, food cravings can hit you out of nowhere and can place all the victories from your carefully designed efforts at risk. The problem they present is that they rarely – if ever – come in the form of a desire to eat carrot sticks and a tall glass of ice water.
Why do we love junk food so much? Nearly everyone feels the same way about it, even if it’s terrible for our nutrition when we have it regularly or in large amounts. We absolutely crave it. And we crave it in ways that simply don’t happen with nutritious foods, even the ones we really like.