Postponed Snack Craving: A New Weight Loss Plan
When planning a great diet strategy, one searches through numerous websites and journals hoping to get that perfect healthy diet. Such diet is described not only to get you to slim down into a size two but one that would get to be perfectly fits into your schedule. Women are usually the target group of this diet planning market. Some were told that eating small meals six times a day would totally eliminate in between cravings and keep you full the entire day without breaking your diet. Others stick to a well balanced three times a day with water in between meal diet plan plus exercise to get either their dreamed six pack abs or simply slim down. Such cliché studies have been well incorporated into the lives of women. Some were successful in their goal while others gain more weight in the process. This fact truly shows that the results depend gravely on women’s self – control. Hence, a new study has been brought up to the public. This time it hollers to the women population: postpone your chocolate chip cravings! Will this be the latest and modern idea for women’s weight loss strategy?
Usually when a particular craving starts, women, human beings in general, think of two actions to attack it: five in or take full control to resist the temptation. The former lead one to be guilty in consuming high caloric foods that not only satisfies his or her craving but also ruins his or her planned diet in the process. Resistance, on the other end, causes the person to actually postpone the craving but later on when faced with the desired food, the person would consume too much of it. Guilt follows this process eventually. So, what Nicole Mead, PhD, an assistant professor at Catolica – Lisbon School of Business and Economics in Portugal suggest: postpone your craving to a later date without any word on the specific time in the future.
Mead has found out that those who postpone their cravings do eat less of that food up to next week. This study has been successfully establish as Mead made use of three study groups to watch a movie while oblivious on the actual study purpose. Chocolate candies were provided. One group was instructed to eat them, the second was told not to and the last was told that they could eat it later. The results showed that those who did not get to eat at all consumed too much when they were all instructed to eat. The third group who postponed eating consumed little less than those who already ate. Both latter groups were seen to consume minimal amount of candies compared to the first group. Such test was also done the second time and this time with high – school students as subjects and ships as the source of craving. The results were still the same.
The idea of a non – specific craving postponement is backed by a theory that when people set their specific time to have the food, then their mind are pretty much set most of the time to that food and the craving grows and grows every second until it reaches its full degree. If your postponement is non – specific, there occurs a cooling – off period strategy of the mind which takes you away from the guilty – and – deprived – feeling kind of conflict. Hence, you would not seek out the food later or only consume less amount of it.
Such study works perfectly for those who truly watch out their diet while in their slimming – down – to – have – a – rocking – sexy – body – with – abs goal. Cravings postponed with non – specific plan would get you to avoid eating too much and would not deprive yourself of that food. This is definitely the perfect balance diet with less cravings as a side dish.
