A Springtime Resolution: Trick Yourself into Eating Better2/28/2023
0 Comments You can easily set up your kitchen (and some habits) to trick yourself to eat less. The guy in this video came out to visit me this weekend and he'll show you how. A while back "Trick Yourself into Eating Better was the title Quartz used for a catchy story on some of our research. It’s about 3 minutes long and has a lot of eye-opening tips and insights. They interviewed one of my post-doctoral fellows, Aner Tal. What’s unusual is how Aner describes why these work in a suave James Bond style and how Quartz cleverly illustrates them. Too cool for school. Here’s some of what they mentioned: 1. Use lighter plates 2. Use smaller plates 3. Cut your food into pieces 4. Don’t watch TV when you eat 5. No scary movies 6. Don’t shop when you’re hungry (you don't buy more, you buy worse) 7. Deprivation always backfires Some of these might sound pretty basic, but it’s Aner's description of how they work and Quartz's funny illustrations that really make them pop. Aner flew out to visit me from Israel a while back, and we were talking about how people react after they hear about some of these discoveries. Some people hear about suggestions like these and say to themselves “That would never happen to me,” so they don’t try to do anything different, and nothing changes in their life. Other people say to themselves, “Yeah, that makes sense” but they never do it, so, again, nothing changes in their life. No one is going to hear about 7 discoveries and make 7 changes in their life. It’s too much. But you can make 1 or 2 of them. After they become habits, you can always come back to the table for another course.
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What a powerful thing to say.
An interesting study was done on people who recovered from being bullied and body shamed when they were young. One of the questions it asked was if they had a mantra or quote that helped them through their darkest days of being bullied and body shamed. About half of them did. One woman said, "Don't waste 95% of your life worrying about weighing 5% less." She didn't want to let a little extra bit of weight ruin everything else in her day or her life. This is touching. I suspect she did go through a lot of worry and pain before she came to this "Aha" moment. It's easy to spot the one thing that isn't perfect in our life. While some people might think its makes them a perfectionist, obsessing on it is probably just going to make them less happy with the rest of their life. There's a story of a man who's at a work meeting and the boss asked if there are any other announcements. The guy stands up, looks around the room, clears his thhrou"My wife just completed a 40 week body building program this morning," a man proudly announced one day at work. "It's a girl and it weights 7 lbs. 12 ounces." There's a lot of amazing things to think about and focus on in your amazing life. If 5% of your weight is a concern, maybe it only deserves 5% of your attention. |
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