How come when I start to eat healthy I end up craving the bad food worse?!

It mostly has to do with your "healthier" diet. If you aren't satisfying your nutritional requirements, you will crave other food. What do your healthier diets look like? Feel free to contact me.

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Depending on what the "bad food" is your craving, there is actually several ingredients that are physically addictive in processed junk food and drinks (refined white sugar, excessive salt, refined flour, caffeine and arguably, several chemical flavorings, colorings and food preservatives). Much like any other addict quitting a physically addictive substance, you will experience withdrawal symptoms as your body fights cravings for the substance and dumps toxins from itself when the substance is no longer being put in the body (mind you, you will not get the same level of withdrawal symptoms from cutting out refined sugar as someone quitting heroine). When I cut out junk food from my diet, and started eating a organic, unprocessed, healthy diet, I remember feeling completely crappy for about a month (detopxing from all the junk food chemicals built up in my system), but once that was over, I have always felt extremely healthy, energized, rarely get sick.... Also, while I really missed it at first, now the look and smell (and thought) of junk food doesn't appeal to me at all. It's a matter of patience, realizing the bad feeling and food cravings won't last forever, and it's well worth it for your health.

Vegetarian for 12 years
Started eating a non-processed food diet 4 years ago

It's just like giving up coffee or cigarettes - your body has been used to having the bad thing (sugar, probably) and expects it, so you have to persevere for a few days. It doesn't take long to get the physical craving out of your system. However there is also a mental issue - you probably are thinking, I want those things but I can't have them because I am eating healthy stuff. You should try to train yourself to look at the 'bad' foods and think "Yuk! That is so nasty and full of rubbish why would anyone WANT to eat that?". You crave stuff because you are denying yourself. You don't crave it when you really, really don't want to eat it

Your daily diet could be made up of a smaller proportion of bad food and a larger proportion of health food. And then you can get a healthy body while fulfilling your desire for bad food.

Maybe you are not eating enough of the right things so are still hungry.
When you are satisfied your cravings start diminishing.

Because you're need time to get accustomed to the new food and forget the old food.

Depriving yourself of something makes you want it more.

Everything in moderation.....

In time these cravings will go away. It just takes your body time to adapt.

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just something to share here, i must have two servings of rice evrytime i eat dinner. need to control myself :(