Magnus Itland ([info]itlandm) wrote,
@ 2008-07-11 15:10:00
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Non-business: FOOD diaries!
How Food Diaries Work (Time)
I haven't done this myself, but evidently it helps people who struggle with keeping their weight down without having any medical disorder. I wonder if it is not related to the way people eat less if they are facing a mirror while they eat. (By all means try this at home.) I think of it as a way of increasing consciousness. Hard to go wrong with that. More about that later, Light willing.


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[info]del_chan
2008-07-11 01:48 pm UTC (link)
Increased food consciousness has worked similarly for me, too, though I haven't tried food journalling. I started looking at what the food label considers "a serving of cereal", and when I measured it out, it was about half of what I would have eaten that morning. I tried it for a week, and I really didn't feel any hungrier without the excess, so I've continued to do that. I made a rule about drinking a full glass of water before any snack at work (usually, by the time I was done with the water, I didn't remember the urge to snack), and at restaurants, I stop eating halfway through and talk myself into saving a decent-enough sized portion to eat for lunch (this also helps curb the guilt of spending so much money eating out). Those actions alone lost me five pounds where, similar to the author of the article, daily exercise didn't (though I still do that, too).

I think it was inspired by my co-worker; after watching my co-worker use Nutrisystem* to fit into her wedding dress and gain all her weight back when she couldn't stand eating the same things every day, I decided self-regulation worked, and it didn't seem like the kind of trait I should have to pay a company for.

*a diet plan that enforces portion control by selling you expensive frozen and dehydrated meals in small cardboard containers.

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