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Mindful eating and keeping weight off
Merlin Mann | Jan 3 2008
Reason Magazine - Secrets of Weight Loss Revealed! This review of two recent diet books underscores what most of us already know all too well: while it's easy enough to drop a few pounds for a short while, it's nearly impossible to lose a lot of weight for a long time. What caught my attention for anyone wishing to apply some fancy book-learning directly to the affected area was this chunk of insight on eating mindfully -- alongside a smart bit of life-hacky weight loss advice:
I'm also a big-fan of guesstimating portion with real-world objects. Although, candidly, the last time I ate beef, it was less like a deck of cards and more like the whole blackjack shoe. [via: Arts & Letters Daily] 15 Comments
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Mind me.Submitted by grant on January 3, 2008 - 9:50am.
1. Okinawan mindfulness: hara hachi bu! (Eighty percent full!) 2. Did you catch the NPR story on the placebo effect this morning? It focused on an exercise study and the power of suggestion. The key grafs: Quote:
She divided 84 maids into two groups. With one group, researchers carefully went through each of the tasks they did each day, explaining how many calories those tasks burned. They were informed that the activity already met the surgeon general's definition of an active lifestyle. In other words, somehow knowing that they were doing something made that thing happen, whether or not the actual doing was taking place. So on some level, making yourself know you're doing something is the real goal to these exercises. » POSTED IN:
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