Cravings
The Better Life Experts | September 18, 2008
Most of us think about craving as a call to action – stuff something (preferably salty, sweet or fattening) into our mouths. But, as we see from the Miriam-Webster Dictionary definition below, craving is a noun (a person, place or thing) and not a verb (action word).
Main Entry:
crav•ing
Pronunciation:
\'kra-vi?\
Function:
noun
Date:
1633
:an intense, urgent, or abnormal desire or longing
Sometimes a craving will occur when the body requires certain nutrients that our diets are not providing and we need to pay attention to this valuable hard-wired signal that alerts us for dietary deficiencies. Many times, however, what we perceive as craving is really habit. We may feel an intense desire to eat chocolate, but our bodies do not need chocolate to function properly. Learn to separate your nouns and verbs: desire or longing is a thing; eating chocolate is one of hundreds of possible things we can do to satisfy craving, not the only one.
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