Food craving is one of a dieter's worst enemies. It slowly eats up your control, tempts you and seduces you and before you know it, you find yourself biting into that luscious calorie-laden chocolate cake. And it doesn't stop there, once you've had a small taste, you can't seem to stop. And so you eat and eat until you've had enough. And after that heavenly experience, comes plain old guilt. Sound familiar?

Yes, food cravings can be very dangerous to that well-planned diet that you have been struggling to stick to for a couple of days. Have you had enough of seeing yourself stumble every time hunger pangs emerge? Then do not worry. Here are simple and easy tips to help you resist food cravings, and hopefully help you stick to that diet.

Tip # 1: Eat your meals on time. Not eating your meals on time is one of the main reasons why food cravings or hunger pangs emerge. The body usually takes 4 hours to digest the meal that you have eaten previously. After that period, it will be sending signs for you to eat again. If you delay that urge, you will end up more and more hungry and tend to eat more than you should.

Tip # 2: Eat small portions of food at shorter frequencies. Eating continuously small portions of food will keep you feeling full most of the time. And thus, you will never experience food craving or hunger pangs for the rest of the day.

Tip # 3: Hydrate yourself. Water can do wonders to your metabolism. Aside from that, it makes you feel fuller so you won't have too much food cravings in a day.

Tip # 4: Don't stock your kitchen shelves with the usual high calorie foods that you crave. Having such kinds of food within your reach will make it so much easier for you to give in to temptation by just opening up your shelves and pulling out the next junk food that you can find. Instead, fill your shelves with healthier options such as nuts and dried fruits.

Tip # 5: Distract yourself. Every time you feel that food craving emerging, try to preoccupy your mind with something else. Watch television; take your dog out for a walk. Food cravings usually do not last that long and will disappear once you have something else in your mind.

Tip # 6: Let yourself give in to the temptation once in a while. Cut yourself some slack. Let yourself indulge on those foods once in a while. But beware dieter, this takes a lot of discipline – eat only minimal amounts. And if you're not sure that you can stick to the amount of serving that you have agreed, might as well not indulge at all.

So to dieters, prepare yourself from food craving attacks. Follow these simple and easy tips and with a little bit of discipline, you will find yourself breezing through that diet like it was the most natural thing!