Mind over Matter Does it Make You Fat or Thin ?

We all know that how we can think about thing can have an influence on the way we can become as people, so what if we were to apply this to losing weight is it really possible to think yourself thin?

When I myself was trying to lose weight I kept coming across visualisation as a good technique. In order to help me to do what I was trying to achieve, what I used to do was imagine myself standing on the scales and being at my target weight and seeing myself as a thin person.

Does it work -

So is it really possible that this does actually work,it now seems so that that is the case some recent research has been conducted and concluded that how we actually think about food can actually make us eat more or less food.

The Research

British scientists conducted some research on participants and found that if you concentrate on the food the you’re eating while you are eating it, this can stop you from eating more later on, the suggestion is to do this rather than just sitting in front of the television and eating your meal which is what a lot of us tend to do these days.

Eating food in front of the television can tend to make you eat more food anyway so this is a habit that you may need to become aware of and eat your food elsewhere.

The research was done to see what role memory has as regards snacking in one of the tests 47 women students were told that they were taking part in a biscuit tasting experiment.

These were split into two groups, one group was told to describe what they had for lunch, while the other group was asked to describe their journey to the University campus.

The participants in the study who described in very vivid detail what they ate for lunch, were far less likely to eat more food, whereas the other group whom descrided their journey to the campus actually ate more food.

As time went on the effects of this actual study found that the women that had concentrated on their food, three hours later still didn’t feel hungry. This was put alongside the participants that didn’t focus on their food.

In another part of the experiment a group of the participants were asked to watch a video whilst eating some food at the same time and it was found that because they were being distracted by the video they ate more food later on in the day.

Conclusion

This research to me is absolutely fascinating, it just goes to show you that the simplest of things, can in fact help you lose more weight it does make me wonder, though because of the way that things have changed over the years as regards actual eating habits and how we eat our food these days.

When I was younger we always used to sit at a table and eat our food together as a family, I don’t think many people do that these days for some reason, over the years we have decided to become couch potatoes, and sit in front of the television eating our food how or why this has exactly happened I don’t know but it does seem quite prevalent in our society these days.

No one seems use dining tables any more or dining rooms for that matter actually thinking about it would be quite interesting to know where that you eat your food. I can tend to eat mine at my computer or downstairs even though the TV may be on.

I myself can honestly say that I’m not an avid TV watcher, but certainly what has been said in this research does that you make you think that as a result of how you’re eating your food these days can have an impact on how much you eat.

It does actually make me wonder if the same applies if you eat your food whilst using your computer, it really would be quite fascinating to get some feedback on this subject matter.

What I’m going to do is put a poll in to this post to see what results I get. The thing that really does amaze me about this actual study is you would think it would be the other way round that thinking about food would in fact make you feel more hungry but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

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