What food did you crave today? Did you act on it? Was it a healthy choice, or do you wish you had the skills to overcome your food cravings? Try these 10 tips for how to overcome food cravings in a world where our brains, food environment, and advertising work together to pull us off track from our weight loss goals.

Whether it’s salty, savory, sweet, or all three, we have all had food cravings that threaten to pull us in the opposite direction of our healthy eating goals. It can seem impossible to ignore these food cravings, but once you learn the what, where, and why, you will begin to have control over them.