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[BigBecka]

What do you think is the cause of food cravings? Are they your body trying to tell you that you need nutrition?

Last year I was in a car crash. During the week after the crash, I started to want to eat blood, specifically bloody beef-steak and venison. It was very confusing, because the look and smell of these foods makes me feel sick - I didn't eat them even before I became vegetarian! Fortunately it did not last long!

I have heard that vegetarian women sometimes crave meat when they are pregnant.

Do you have experience of this?

[AndyBa]

I really don't know about it.
Sometimes it seems like the body really needs something, and it tells you what.
There are times when I feel like putting lemon juice in every food I eat, beans, soups, salads and so on.
And there are times when I just can't eat something if it is too sour.

On the other hand, my wife when she was pregnant told me that she wants something that will fill her. Mentioning that she would eat even meat. She didn't and the baby is just fine.

Becky, was the crash bad?

[BigBecka]

Lemon Juice? Well, at least you crave something that's good for you! And I am very inspired by your wife

A lot of my friends at the slimming club are wondering whether to fight or follow their cravings. In particular, many of them put on a LOT of weight when pregnant Or they eat really strange things, like pasta with mushy peas

Becky, was the crash bad?

That depends on your point of view - I'm alive! And so is everyone else I was driving a fairly safe car: if I had been driving my old car, it would have been a different story I still have a bad back Otherwise I'm fine, just a bit shocked. My body went a bit crazy - one minute full of energy, then sleeping for 15 hours... It really teaches you how fragile life is - if you think that any morning you could just die on your way to work. It's quite liberating!

[AndyBa]

Lemon Juice? Well, at least you crave something that's good for you!

This was just an example, the most expressive that proves for me that these craving do happen. But there are times when I want to eat chocolate and sweets, and I overeat them.

It's quite liberating!

In which way is it liberating?

[BigBecka]

In which way is it liberating?

I mean, you spend your life trying to please other people, and planning to do things for yourself next year... And once you start living like this, people will exploit you: they make you work harder and harder, and you only get the minimum reward for your efforts because they know you can't afford to quit. They try to make you buy a poorly built house, an over-priced car, a lavish wedding, expensive gadgets and clothes, because it is a way of keeping you poor and therefore controlling you. They will hold you up as an example of how "good" they have been to you, and effectively profit from your predicament. Before you know it, you are getting old and your life is not your own! When you realise that next year might not come, you are set free You see with clarity what is important in your life, which memories are most precious, and who your friends are!

Of course, you never have the time and money to do everything that you want straight away and you mustn't become too selfish! But I now have a whole 5-year plan! of course, life does not always adhere to plans (And my mother is furious with me! )... But I feel much happier and full of hope.

And I take the train more than I used to