Ep212. How to Deal With Cravings.

<p>🎯 Ready to stop starting again every Monday? Doors to the next Start With 6 intake are open now.<br>Join here: <a href="http://www.coachianwood.com/startwith6">www.coachianwood.com/startwith6</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Episode Summary</strong></p><p>In this episode of The Forever Athletic Podcast, I&#39;m talking about the one food, or the one situation, that derails you more than anything else. Nearly everyone&#39;s got one, and most advice tells you to just avoid it completely, which tends to backfire into exactly the binge it was trying to prevent.</p><p>I want to talk properly about how to deal with food cravings, because the answer isn&#39;t a ban, it&#39;s a plan. I&#39;ll walk you through practical ways to keep a trigger food around without it taking over, and why deciding your approach in advance beats relying on willpower every time.</p><p>Then I&#39;m bringing in a concept called Circles of Control, which pairs with this perfectly. You can&#39;t always control whether a trigger food shows up in your week. You can always control your plan for when it does, and that shift changes everything.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>In This Episode</strong></p><ul><li>Why banning a trigger food outright usually makes it worse, not better</li><li>How to deal with food cravings with a plan instead of a rule</li><li>Practical ways to keep a trigger food around without losing control of it</li><li>Why pairing a trigger food with protein or fibre changes how much of it you actually want</li><li>The Circles of Control concept, and why it&#39;s one of the most useful mindset shifts in this whole programme</li><li>What&#39;s actually within your control versus what isn&#39;t, and why that distinction matters</li><li>The one line I want you thinking about next time a craving hits</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Why This Matters</strong></p><p>Most advice on how to deal with food cravings comes down to &quot;just don&#39;t have it,&quot; and for a lot of people that&#39;s exactly where things go wrong. When a food is completely off limits, it tends to take up far more space in your head than it deserves, and that often ends in eating far more of it than you would have if it had just been allowed in moderation from the start.</p><p>A better approach is deciding in advance how a trigger food fits into your week, rather than leaving it to chance and hunger in the moment. Portioning it deliberately, not buying the family size if it&#39;s a known problem, pairing it with som