Thinking About Eating Food Makes You Eat Less? Oh Really Now?

So I haven't posted anything in such a long time, but this month I really want to focus on becoming healthy.  So I decided to look up some weight loss tips.  I wasn't doing it for fast weight loss, just maybe some things to do to eat less...for example drink a lot of Diet Coke! That's kind of an anorexic thing (no I'm obviously not anorexic and I am not telling people to become anorexic...anorexia is bad! just an FYI), but it does curb your appetite when you're really hungry and you just aren't able to at the moment and you need something to tie you over that extra 30 minutes or you just want to eat eat eat.

Anyways, I came upon this article on Glamour's website called Weight Loss Trick: Why Thinking About Food You Really Want To Eat Can Make You Eat Less.  Here's the article itself:

What are you craving right now? Bacon? Pizza? A big gooey cinnamon roll? Whatever the food, if you really want it and are worried that it's going to derail your weight loss goals, consider this surprising and apparently effective tip from researchers...

This month, when many of us are faced with a zillion food temptations (don't ask me about the Christmas cookies I downed on Saturday!), and that's OK--a splurge is cool now and then. In my opinion, it's what makes life enjoyable! But, if giving into repeated splurges is having an impact on your waistline, consider this unusual tip from researchers: Whatever you're craving, just think about it.
That's right, if it's M&Ms you crave, ponder how delicious they are, and think about the chocolately taste in your mouth. Here's why it helps you eat less, say researchers at Caregie Mellon University: Thinking about eating a "forbidden" food several minutes before you actually eat it can help you eat less of it.
In their study, they found that whatever the craving--cheese or M&Ms--study participants who pondered eating the food and the experience it would give them prior to actually eating it, consumed less than those who immediately sat down to eat.
The researchers think it might have something to do with satisfaction. For instance, the 10th bite of pumpkin pie isn't as wondrous as the first, right? So, in a sense, the study participants who had already thought about eating the splurgey food had already enjoyed some of the "pleasure" of that food before digging in--making them less apt to eat the whole bowl of M&Ms to get the same pleasure response.
Fascinating, isn't it?

Here's the link: http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/blogs/vitamin-g/2010/12/weight-loss-trick-why-thinking.html

Hummm...I might have to call bull on this one.  I know the more I think about that cheese the more I am going to want it...and just for the record cheese will not be cut out of my diet...limited maybe but cut out no. Cheese is an essential to life in my opinion.  Hell my mouth is watering right now because I'm thinking about eating some of that cheese...damn article.

Maybe it's like a flooding type thing. You know what psychologists do to people with OCDs or what I'm supposed to be doing with my worrying.  When you flood a person with a fear you stick them in that situation until their anxiety about the thing goes down.  (Y'all if you haven't watched any episodes of Obsessed you really should!)  Or in my case, I'm supposed to schedule a time to worry each week and ideally what is supposed to happen is that you worry about that one thing so much you get bored with it...whatever, I haven't tried it yet. Anyways...maybe if you think about the food enough you get bored with it and you don't want it. Not sure, I still think mas research needs to be done.

Either way, it might work for you. I don't know, I really don't think it'll work for me. Like y'all I'm really craving cheese right now...oooo or maybe a lemon...hum aji de gallina. (Luckily the last one I cannot get at this moment in time because I am not paying $1143 to get to Peru...)

So what is my recommendation you might ask...actually you're probably going I'm tired of reading this shit, but I thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this.  My recommendation (since I can finally say recommendation) is to go do something else. Things I really need to do right now is clean. Okay that's actually the only think I have to do right now, I'm out of school and sitting on my ass for a month...actually I'm hoping to you know do that exercise thing sometime this month. I feel like if I get in the habit now I can keep it up during the school year!!

Well....peace and love and all that jazz!! 

XOXO,

Kat