Poll -- Cravings: Satisfy or Resist?

[alexanderbecker]

A food craving is an intense desire to consume a particular food, as opposed to food in general. Food cravings are especially common in people following structured diet plans, and often interfere with the best of intentions to adhere to a particular style of eating.

What do you do? Do you eventually give in or do you resist and come out stronger (and leaner) than yourself after the cravings are gone? Are they really gone? What about giving in? Exceptions Create Variety, after all.

[ahimel]

The only time I bother to resist is if I've promised not to do something (Like, "I won't eat chocolate for 30 days") or if I think there's some other reason it really matters. I've found that even if I get really depressed and eat chocolate ice cream straight from the container, I still only eat about 500 calories' worth. Granted, that's 500 calories worth of fat and sugar, but I'm still usually able to stay within my limits for the day, AND I don't have the craving to fight the next day, and the day after that, and the day after that....

I save my willpower for more important things.

[technobeast]

I recently read an opinion of a person, that's a vegetarian (vegan - can't remember), where he states that human body needs much less food than we consume. He linked an article that says people who "under-eat" (if I can say that) live longer and stay in much healthy condition!
So he said something like: "I have a measure for hunger. Whenever I think I want to eat (anything) I imagine an onion. If I'm hungry enough and ready to eat the raw onion, then I'm definitely hungry. Just then I eat!"
This helps him keep his food intake really low (a salad and some nuts daily). But he's a really healthy person!