71 Weight Loss Tips: Learn What To Do About One the Hidden Causes of Overeating

"Here is another diet tip to help prevent
eating too much of what makes you fat."

Here is a weight loss tip for the 71 weight loss tips section.

This one is a diet tip.

I found some interesting studies that can be applied to diet.

A few studies were done to find out how people’s eating behavior can be changed.

This particular study had to do with how much a person ate while being distracted and when they were not.

It turns out that when a person is disstracted by something like TV or a movie, they eat significantly more quantity of foods. There were two studies that revealed this.

In one, a group was listening to a detective story during lunch time. They ate 15% more than when they ate in silence.¹

In another study, the participants were watching a film and they consumed significantly greater amounts.²

In a later weight loss tip for the 71 weight loss tips, I'll be talking about the size of the dish and spoon you eat with and how that affects how much you eat.

How This Can Be Applied

Most people will look at this study and look at it from the paradigm that eating less means losing more weight.

Eating less does not necessarily work over the long-term. Many of you browsing this site already know that.

For you, or for the person using my guides, you know that there are foods that cause you to lose weight when the majority or all of your diet is composed of them. Cutting these down will not help you much. So if you are distracted or know you are going to be distracted when eating, pile your plate with these foods. Take as long as you need to eat.

Eat your weight loss fat burning foods first and keep a lot of them on your plate.

Eating in silence is not always to going to be a solution. Food is such a part of your social make-up. Social happiness is almost always connected with food.

So if you are alone, and eating and can set aside time to eat where you can pay more attention, then go for it.

In either case, by piling on the fat loss foods, you will be safe in this regard.

References

1. Bellisle, F., and Dalix A. M. (2001). Cognitive restraint can be offset by distraction, leading to increased meal intake in women. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 74. 197-200.
   
2. Wansink, B., and Park, S. (2001). At the movies: How external cues and perceived taste impact consumption volume. Food Quality and Preference, 12(I), 69-74.

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