Apparently cravings are visual. When you crave pie, you imagine pie and you physically want some pie. Some psych study or other has just proven that if you stop imagining pie and visualise a rainbow or something, the physical craving disappears! (Whereas hunger is not visual; you can be hungry and not crave anything.)
I had an opportunity to put this into practise on Anna. I waved some pear and raspberry bread at her at lunch time. 2 hours later, she was craving it. I helpfully suggested she imagine tulips, bay windows, or deserts. In the end, she got the song 'My favourite things' stuck in her head, and that flood of images distracted her pretty effectively.
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