You are familiar to the phrase "everything is good in moderation", which in use to nutrition means the balance of useful products and fastuch. Usually nutritionists say that the "harmful" food in your daily diet should be 10-15% of daily calorie content. This means that per day it is worth eating one strip of chocolate or ice cream, no more. But who can confine themselves to this amount when is in stress because of quarantine? In these difficult days, fighting for the slightness of the figure is more complicated, but we have a solution.
Experiment with unexpected results
In March of this year, the Journal of CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE published a scientific article "Distanced Self-Talk Enhances Goal Pursuit to Eat Healthier", describing a curious experiment. Scientists invited 244 volunteers who were offered to choose between photos of healthy and unhealthy foods on the computer screen. Some of them were given to watch a two-minute video, telling about the benefits of healthy nutrition. Next, the subjects were told to contact themselves with the question that they would have chosen from the products. Those who spoke with themselves in the first person often chose harmful products, while those who appeal to themselves were inclined to useful products.
Experiment participants asked to choose a photo on a computer
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Conclusions of scientists
"The results have shown that people sitting on the diet have learned the greatest benefit from combining the conversation with them and watching video," they write the authors of the study. "Persons who do not comply with the diet also made a healthier choice when they spoke with themselves, regardless of whether they were aimed at achieving the goal in the field of health care or not. These results show that the conversation with himself in the third person can be a self-control strategy that contributes to a healthier nutrition. " Since the study is fresh, for the approval of his scientific evidence it is worth waiting for rechecking other scientists - only if it can be argued that this is an effective method of weight loss. So far, you can try this method as an experiment - it does not represent harm and danger, so why not?
Eat balanced so that there is no temptation to break
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Alternative methods for overeating
When calculating the daily diet and advance preparation for food for a day, you will not have a temptation to eat something over. You can also try to order a daily dietary delivery service for a day - it is popular in all major cities. Keep a fridge half empty, do not buy sweets and do not order fast food to know exactly what you have nothing to run. Drink more water, so as not to confuse the feeling of hunger and thirst, go to the store on the full stomach and in the lunchtime or in the morning - so you will not in line at the checkout, where there is a temptation to take a chocolate egg or a bar from the neighboring shelf.