Show Notes on 4 Simple Ways to Boost Your Immune System

Thank you for listening to Wholebeing RN Radio! Join me for this episode talking about how to boost our immune system and keep it healthy without deprivation.

In this episode, we are talking about these Cravings talking points:

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What does immune trouble look like before I get sick?

What causes immune system troubles?

How to start boosting your immune system now, without deprivation

What to do if you do get sick?

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Body Wisdom Waitlist

365 Days of Happiness by Jacqueline Pirtle

7 Day Spark

Wellness Tribe

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We all have cravings. I do. I’m pretty sure even my dog does, maybe even my little chickens do to.. I think the difference in cravings now vs before intuitive eating is simply that I can identify them and differentiate them from hunger, and I know how to deal with them in a non-destructive non-diet culture way.  

Today, we are going to dive in and find out what is a craving, what causes cravings, how to get rid of them, and how to get to the root of what is causing them so that ultimately we can stop them.

What is a craving?

It can be a really broad definition and is no doubt up for interpretation. For our purposes here, a craving is an intense hunger for a particular food. It can also be a sister of that, but we will discuss that in depth a little bit later. A craving is most often driven by an imbalance, an emotion, or an emptiness, sometimes referred to a lack of feeling whole.

What causes cravings?

Cravings can also be driven by a biological need for a particular nutrient. Kind of rare, but can be the case. Sometimes it is because of a biochemical change in the body, think hormonal changes or blood sugar changes. These types of cravings are not sex-specific either. Sometimes cravings are triggered by habits or situations, such as popcorn at the movies, or wings and football. An example of this might be that you go out on a date, eat a full dinner, and then order popcorn anyway habitually even if you aren’t physically hungry and maybe you eat it maybe you don’t. These are all possibilities for cravings, but did you know that most of the time a craving is driven by an emotion.

Most typically that emotion is stress, although as we know stress can come disguised as many different things like anger, sadness, exhaustion.

What happens when you are constantly bombarded with cravings?

Well, it can cause some issues because it is going against your body's innate wisdom. Now you may be thinking, “wait a minute...it’s a signal from my body” and yes it is but it is a signal not that you need whatever you are craving but there is something at the root of that craving that needs to be healed. So when you just give in and move on Every. Single. Time. you need up ignoring what your body is truly trying to tell you and THAT leads to a whole host of chronic health and wellness issues (like inflammation).

When that happens, the majority of people try to fix it restrictive diets, pills, patches, shakes, and other quick fixes. Often times this turn to restriction is so severe and so intense that it backfires. In fact, studies show that 90% of the time it backfires, and 66% of those times that it backfires, it is actually a boomerang effect. You initially give in to all of the cravings and then you go way out into a restrictive diet and lose some weight and then it all comes back to you even more weight than you lost and the cravings come back too.