Quotes About Cravings

We love salt, fat and sugar. We're hard-wired to go for those flavors. They trip our dopamine networks, which are our craving networks.

Before I went on sporting trips I'd take chips or lollies. I had a love for sweet foods.

Our true passions are selfish.

The truth is if you can eat just a serving size, you can eat anything. But we all know how those harmless treats can call out your name all night long, and rationalizing in the middle of the night is very easy.

What do people want? Well, you really can't talk about wants until you talk about needs.

What people need to know is that if you don't eat what you want, then you'll just continue to eat, because you're not fulfilled.

Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.

I love salad, but I have to have something 'solid' with it because I don't feel satisfied without carbs.

It's pretty rare for me to be someplace that serves hot dogs and not eat one.

I wouldn't say I am the type of girl who craves Doritos, but I definitely love a good cupcake sometimes. Or a croissant in the morning.

A man cannot live without water. He cannot live without it, but he can bear the thought of no water. A man can live without sex. He can live without it, but he cannot bear the thought of no sex.

Dieting isn't my thing, I love food too much and also have such a fast metabolism I always seem hungry.

Milk Duds and Hot Tamales are what I love.

I like all sorts of chocolate. Milk chocolate, dark chocolate, anything.

I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.

What most people call power Buddhists call cravings. The five cravings are for wealth, fame, sex, fancy food, and lots of sleep. In Buddhism, we speak of the five true powers, five kinds of energy. The five powers are faith, diligence, mindfulness, concentration, and insight. The five powers are the foundation of real happiness; they are based on concrete practices we will learn in this book.

If we don't practice mindfulness, our cravings and sensual desires will overwhelm us.

Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were licking their fingers with that absorbed inward look that only comes from whipped cream.

Sour candy trumps chocolate.

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

What? My gastrointestinal clock was ticking. I wanted a food baby.

fill my plate and a bowl with all kinds of goodies I haven't had in over a year. A slice of chocolate cake—priorities!—a scoop of chicken potpie, slice of chocolate cake, scoop of yam casserole, slice of chocolate cake, two scoops of mashed potatoes, a slice of chocolate cake, a scoop of buttery green beans, a slice of chocolate cake—

I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don't eat them.

The main challenge is food. I need to zip my mouth and not give in to cravings.