🍫 The 5-Minute Trick That Permanently Erases Food Cravings

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“I don’t even want it anymore.”

That’s the sentence people say, bewildered, after trying this simple 5-minute technique. They expected to feel deprived, guilty, or saintly. Instead, they feel… indifferent.

The chocolate, the wine, the chips — they just don’t seem interesting.

No struggle. No internal debate. Just freedom.

This isn’t magic or hypnosis. It’s psychology — and once you understand how it works, you’ll see that your cravings were never permanent to begin with.

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Why Cravings Are Learned, Not “Natural”

Cravings feel biological — as if your body needs sugar or fat.

But most cravings are conditioned responses — learned habits your brain picked up along the way.

For instance:

• You once had chocolate to soothe stress → brain remembers relief → chocolate = comfort.
• You paired Netflix with snacks → brain learns TV = eat.
• You reward yourself after a long day → brain expects food = reward.

Over time, these pairings become automatic. Just seeing, or even thinking about, the trigger (like the sofa, or the supermarket shelf) makes your brain release dopamine — the “feel-good” chemical that tells you to eat.

In short: you don’t crave the food itself. You crave the feeling your brain has attached to it.

And that’s the feeling you can change.

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Why Willpower and “Mindful Eating” Don’t WorkMost people try to resist cravings through willpower.

They distract themselves, repeat mantras (“I don’t need chocolate!”), or try to “be good.”

But here’s the catch: willpower operates in your conscious mind, and that’s like trying to steer a cruise ship with a teaspoon. The craving lives in your subconscious, which runs your habits automatically.

It’s not about saying “no.” It’s about re-training your brain so it stops asking.

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The Overlay Technique (The 5-Minute Craving Eraser)

This method is the foundation of the Automatic Weight Loss Method.

It uses a very brief “conditioning” process to disconnect the emotional link between a specific food and the pleasure it once promised.

You’ll need about five quiet minutes. Here’s how it works.

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Step 1: Pick One Specific Craving

Choose one specific food that tempts you far too easily, or which you tend to eat in too-large portions — maybe chocolate, chips, or wine. Don’t pick ten at once; it’s crucial to deal with one at a time.

Note: it doesn’t need to be an “unhealthy” food. It may be that eating too much of a specific healthy food is your unique cause of overweight.

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Step 2: Practice Really Thinking about It

Imagine that food in vivid detail — its smell, texture, taste, the sound of the wrapper. The important thing here is noticing what is the point in this imaginary process that is just before you reach the peak sensory experience.

And see if you can notice what happens in your body — a little excitement, a warm buzz, maybe an urge.

You’re going to “install” this conditioned response on one kneecap, so that when you touch that kneecap you will instantly get that feeling.

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Step 3: Overlay Something Revolting

Now, imagine something completely gross that you would never in a million years put in your mouth. Something that makes your stomach churn to think about it. 

For example:

• Dog poo.
• Blended snails, shells and mucous and all.
• Your kid’s vomit that you scraped up last night.

You’re not traumatising yourself — just making your brain go, “yuck, yuck, yuck!”

Humour is powerful here. The sillier, the better. The key is to disrupt the old conditioned response by simultaneously introducing something that completely mismatches, because disruption (not distraction) is what permanently extinguishes conditioned responses. Immediately.

Just as you did before, notice the point just prior to your full sense of revulsion. When I step you through this process you’ll use that to “install” the revolting feeling on your other knee.

We’ll then combine these two “installations” in a special way, in sequence, to instantly and permanently erase that craving.

It takes all of 5 minutes.

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Step 4: Test It

Now, bring the food to mind again — or if it’s handy, look at the real thing.

Does it feel different?

Most people report one of four reactions:

• “It’s just… meh.”
• “It looks kind of weird now.”
• “I forgot why I wanted it.”
• “It’s disgusting to me now.”

That’s your neural pathway changing in real time.

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Step 5: Reinforce the Update

Smile. Say to yourself, “Good — that one’s done.”

Your brain now associates that food with neutrality or mild absurdity instead of excitement. If you’re one of those people who got a nauseated feeling, don’t worry, that wears off quickly and you’ll just be left with a neutral feeling about that food.

AND, congratulate yourself, you’ve just rewritten a piece of conditioning — in under five minutes. And probably laughed as you did it. 

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A Short Story: The Case of the Chocolate Drawer

Anne, a teacher in Brisbane, had what she affectionately called her “magic drawer”, full of chocolate. Throughout the day and especially in breaks, she’d snack on chocolate. She said these were her little “moments of joy”.

She tried the overlay technique (also called “Kill Cravings”) one day while watching my video. Just 5 minutes.

The next day, she opened the drawer, saw the chocolate… and laughed again. Then she shut it.

“I thought it looked OK. But I didn’t feel like a piece just then and thought I might have some later, because I do like chocolate. But somehow I forgot. I haven’t touched it since. It’s funny because every time I open the drawer I know I like it but I don’t want it. How strange.”

That was two months ago. The chocolate is still there — untouched, forgotten, irrelevant.

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Why This Works (According to Neuroscience)

It used to be thought that the only way we could overcome conditioning was to apply intense willpower over a long time. Or if we could distract ourselves often enough the conditioning would somehow fade away. That was always complete bunk.

What we now know is that conditioning is not the tough cookie that we thought. In fact these conditioned responses are very fragile, and if we disrupt them at the right time and in the right way, they evaporate. They are gone.

The overlay technique, or “Kill Cravings” as a lot of people call it, ensures that you disrupt a specific conditioned response in just the right way.

That’s what makes the change permanent — you’re not suppressing the craving, you’re removing it.

And remember, your brain is not a cushion stuffed with “conditioning”, and the fact that an old conditioned response has gone does not mean there’s some kind of vacuum in there. It’s just that the old pattern doesn’t run any more. You’re free.

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What If It Doesn’t Work the First Time?

Sometimes the first attempt only weakens the craving instead of erasing it completely. That’s fine.

You can simply repeat it once a day for a few days. And if that doesn’t get the result you want, there’s always the free support community waiting to help you out.

Even if you need to repeat this a few times, most people find their desire for that food has completely evaporated.

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Important Note: You’re Not “Brainwashing” Yourself

You’re not forcing yourself to dislike food, or trying to talk yourself out of it.

You’re simply removing the unnatural overliking that was installed by repetition, or emotional triggers. You are removing unwanted, unhelpful conditioning.

You’ll still enjoy food — you just won’t feel compelled to eat things that make you unhappy later.

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From Craving to Calm

After using this technique, something delightful happens: silence.

The food chatter in your mind stops.

You can walk past bakeries, vending machines, or cheese platters and feel… nothing much.

That quietness is the sound of your brain returning to balance.

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Try It for Yourself

If you’d like to experience the full guided version of this process, visit
👉 AutomaticWeightLossMethod.com
and grab the $7 ebook, which includes “how to” videos and community support. 

It’s an easy, “yucky-fun” way to watch your craving disappear — while laughing about it.

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Final Thought

The foods you crave are not part of who you are.

They’re just habits your brain picked up while trying to make you happy.

Now you can thank your brain… and teach it a better way.

In five minutes flat.