ashtanga yoga Digest Number 708

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Hi Rahel

 

My teacher says that ashtangis eat a lot of chocolate. What I have learned

to make my chocolate craving healthy if to buy chocolate that is not sweetened

with sugar, but with malitol or other substitutes. You can buy some online

through chocolate websites, or you can check whole foods, if it's in your area.

Sharfeen Berger makes good dark chocolate. Just avoid milk chocolate and

find some without sugar. You can also make chocolate puddings that have

virtually no calories.

 

I'm also vegetarian, and practice more a vegan way, so I avoid dairy products.

If you're craving fatty foods why not substitute healthy ones such as nuts?

Thanks

Arturo

 

 

Sat, 13 Nov 2004 04:50:52 -0000

"rhlgolightly" <rhlgolightly

Strange food cravings?

 

 

 

 

Hello!

 

I took up my ashtanga practice again in may 2004 ( after a 8 months

break ) and usually I been losing weight when I practice a lot,which

is okey for me because I am not thin. I do my practice 5-6 days a

week, almost the whole primary series. But now, since summer I

noticed that I feel an urge to eat fattening food, as milk, cheese

and loads of chocolate and now I been gaining weight instead of

losing it, okey, you can tell me to just stop with the chocolate but

I really feel that my body 'need' or demand it. It is really strange

beacause I used to be very healthy, already as a teenager. I eat a

90% vegeterian diet, sometimes fish, no meet or chicken for years. My

acupuncturist keeps telling me to start with some chicken or meat,

that my bodytype 'need' it and when it doesn't get it, it start to

crave for the fatty things as cheese and chocolate. Make any sense?

Have anyone had any similar 'symptoms' or does anyone have any really

good suggestions what to do, because I used to have a flat belly, but

not anymore..

I also take vitamin B and some Omega oil,so I do not think it is

because of a lack of vitamins.

 

Thank you!

 

Rahel