Excersises to Reduce Craving

This is the edited version of another paper written for religion class:

9-14- Exercises to Reduce Craving Tyler 
     I really love unhealthy foods. Specifically, foods with ridiculous amounts of butter, oil, or salt. I know that this is unhealthy, and even though I don’t think I have an addiction to it, I figured I’d probably be better off if I at least tried to stop eating it so much. So to eliminate craving for salt and butter, I decided to try out exercise number 5: Indulge your Craving.

      My breakfast started out with a nice and greasy ham and cheese omelet, with some melted butter brushed on top. While eating it, I examined what I felt. I thought it was delicious, and couldn’t see how I could ever get tired of the taste. Lunch arrived, and I had two nice slices of oily pizza. Again, I did not feel any displeasure as I rapidly took bite after bite. But then, dinner came. We were having chicken and mashed potatoes. I grabbed all of the fatty dark meat I could find, and poured salt on it. Then, I put some potatoes on my plate and put a large chunk of butter on top of it, along with some more salt. Again I ate happily, but perhaps, I thought, I had put on way too much butter. As soon as I finished eating the Grand Finale of my salt-and-butter pig-out day, I began to feel sick. I felt bloated and unhealthy, and had a headache similar to one you get when you stare at a computer screen too long. I realized that this uncomfortable feeling of nausea was a result of all of the junk I had eaten throughout the day. The total change in feeling from pleasure to pain was surprising.

      From this day of indulging my craving for fatty, oily foods, I learned firsthand that too much of anything is bad for you. I felt so unhealthy after the experiment, and even now I certainly don’t see myself ingesting anything salty soon. Even though this method of getting rid of cravings seems illogical, it certainly works for many kinds of attachments.