Breakfast Tweak Prevents Sugar Craving

Reporting on how my switching from a nice full vegetable omelet to fruit and goat yogurt has affected my food cravings. A few months ago I found myself craving sweets and fruit at best after eating a nice big vegetable omelet. And I also couldn't get the 3-4 kilo which had snuck on back off. So I decided to change my breakfast to fruit and goat yogurt. In the beginning I sometimes even added some oats.

apple, peach, ginger slivers and goat yogurt

Well, the results are even better than I had expected. I no longer crave something sweet, eat less fruit during the day and I lost the few kilo, thank Gd.

There are times that we must listen to our "cravings" and then use them as guides. If you find a way to prevent them, you gain control and can even lose weight.

Have you any easy diet tips like this one?

Why Do I "Crave" Persimmons?

Persimmons are one of the foods, like avocados and artichokes, that not only had I never eaten before moving to Israel, but I had never even heard of. Actually I can make a very long list of foods in that category. Another would be a pomegranate. I really don't remember them from New York. Last year they were my "craved fruit." This year, I really can't make myself eat them

This is the year of the persimmon. But what has me stymied is what vitamin or mineral is in that pretty orange fruit that my body is demanding?

Wikipedia gives two different nutrition charts. I'm not sure which type of persimmon they have here in Israel. It may even be different from the two they list.

American persimmons, raw
Diospyros virginiana

Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
Energy	531 kJ (127 kcal)
Carbohydrates	33.5 g
Sugars	n/a
Dietary fiber	n/a
Fat	0.4 g
Protein	0.8 g
Vitamins
Vitamin C	(80%) 66 mg
Minerals
Calcium	(3%) 27 mg
Iron	(19%) 2.5 mg
Phosphorus	(4%) 26 mg
Potassium	(7%) 310 mg
Sodium	(0%) 1 mg
Link to USDA Database entry

Japanese persimmons, raw
Diospyros kaki

Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
Energy	293 kJ (70 kcal)
Carbohydrates	18.59 g
Sugars	12.53 g
Dietary fiber	3.6 g
Fat	0.19 g
Protein	0.58 g
Vitamins
Vitamin A equiv. beta-Carotene lutein zeaxanthin	(10%) 81 μg (2%) 253 μg 834 μg
Thiamine (B1)	(3%) 0.03 mg
Riboflavin (B2)	(2%) 0.02 mg
Niacin (B3)	(1%) 0.1 mg
Vitamin B6	(8%) 0.1 mg
Folate (B9)	(2%) 8 μg
Choline	(2%) 7.6 mg
Vitamin C	(9%) 7.5 mg
Vitamin E	(5%) 0.73 mg
Vitamin K	(2%) 2.6 μg
Minerals
Calcium	(1%) 8 mg
Iron	(1%) 0.15 mg
Magnesium	(3%) 9 mg
Manganese	(17%) 0.355 mg
Phosphorus	(2%) 17 mg
Potassium	(3%) 161 mg
Sodium	(0%) 1 mg
Zinc	(1%) 0.11 mg
Link to USDA Database entry

In all honesty, it's a pretty tame craving and a lot healthier than chocolate, roasted nuts or ice cream.

What do you think?