What to Eat When You're Hangry

Cravings can feel so powerful, but sometimes it can help take the power out of them and give you back more control to understand why you’re craving something, whether it's chocolate, cheese, or that particular mac and cheese that your aunt made one Thanksgiving the first time you came home from college.

Dissecting and understanding these cravings is a big part of what Lindsey Smith does in her upcoming book Eat Your Feelings: The Food Mood Girl’s Guide to Transforming Your Emotional Eating- With Recipes! This is not a diet book, and this is not a book that purports a one-size-fits-all, right way to eat. Instead, Smith unpacks what she calls the "Food Mood Lifestyle," a way to listen to your feelings while giving your body what it wants.

Ever been "hangry"? Maybe you were too busy to sit down and eat lunch, and now that 3pm hanger is rearing its head, often in the form of a craving for something crunchy, sweet, or salty from the office vending machine. Here's a list, excerpted from Eat Your Feelings, of Lindsey's favorite hanger-beating foods: tried and true solutions to power you through those snack urges.

• Almonds
• Apples
• Artichokes
• Avocados
• Bananas
• Beans
• Carrots
• Cauliflower
• Chia Seeds
• Collard Greens
• Eggs
• Onions
• Pears
• Quinoa
• Radicchio
• Rutabagas

Tune in to hear more of Lindsey's insights on emotional eating!