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Dieting Makes You Fat ?
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When you're happy with your weight and have never dieted, you rely on your body to tell you when to eat and (crucially) when to stop.
But when you diet, this simple process goes very wrong. My clients often say: "As soon as I decide to go on a diet, I get this desperate urge to eat!" And, whilst they are "good" for a while and stick to the diet, if they ever break the diet and start eating, then they REALLY eat, wolfing down their food like young Labrador retrievers.
The ice cream experiment
Psychologists have looked at how dieting affects the amount we eat, by doing an experiment with dieting and non dieting students. The students were invited to eat as much ice cream as they liked after being given one of three different "pre loads": one milk shake, two milk shakes or nothing at all.
As you would expect, the non-dieters ate less ice cream after they'd had one milk shake than when they'd had none, and even less ice cream if they had been given two milk shakes first. But the dieters actually ate the most ice cream when they'd had the two-milk-shake, super-sized "pre load"! According to the psychologists, the effect of the milk shake pre-load was to undermine the dieters' resolve. After the excessive consumption of milk shake, the dieters decided that since the diet had been blown out of the water anyway, they may as well make the most of the situation and have lots of ice cream! Hunger and fullness had nothing to do with it!
This is a feeling which all dieters recognise. After succumbing to a biscuit you think: "Oh sod it, I may as well eat the cheese cake as well, and start the diet again tomorrow!"
The scary film experiment
By denying themselves the food they really want, dieters also make food much more important and give it a significance that it does not have for non-dieters. For instance, dieters are more likely than non-dieters to eat in order to suppress bad feelings.
In a study carried out in London, female volunteers were divided into three groups: the first were put on a strict diet, the second undertook a rigorous exercise programme and the third neither dieted nor exercised. After five weeks, the researchers got the women to watch a stressful film, and measured the women's food intake while they watched it. Bowls of food such as sweets and nuts were left beside the women and they were told to eat as much as they liked. Even though none of the women were hungry, those in the diet group ate far more than the women in the two other groups.
This probably won't be a surprise to anyone who has ever been on a diet. They may result in short term weight loss but they cause so many problems that the vast majority of people end up fatter in the long run. However, the effects can be reversed!
Roz Watkins, founder of Templeton Weight Mastery, is a professional coach, NLP Master Practitioner and hypnotherapist. She specialises in helping people lose weight and maintain a healthy slim weight WITHOUT DIETING. She can help you lose weight and keep it off for good by changing the way you think.
Do you wish you could be a slim, healthy weight without dieting?
Do you wonder how your slim friends seem to eat so much?
Are you beginning to suspect that diets just don't work?
Are you sick of thinking about food all the time?
Dieting doesn't work. The vast majority of people who diet put back on more weight than they lost.
You can lose weight and keep it off, but most people are going about it in completely the wrong way.
Source : http://EzineArticles.com
But when you diet, this simple process goes very wrong. My clients often say: "As soon as I decide to go on a diet, I get this desperate urge to eat!" And, whilst they are "good" for a while and stick to the diet, if they ever break the diet and start eating, then they REALLY eat, wolfing down their food like young Labrador retrievers.
The ice cream experiment
Psychologists have looked at how dieting affects the amount we eat, by doing an experiment with dieting and non dieting students. The students were invited to eat as much ice cream as they liked after being given one of three different "pre loads": one milk shake, two milk shakes or nothing at all.
As you would expect, the non-dieters ate less ice cream after they'd had one milk shake than when they'd had none, and even less ice cream if they had been given two milk shakes first. But the dieters actually ate the most ice cream when they'd had the two-milk-shake, super-sized "pre load"! According to the psychologists, the effect of the milk shake pre-load was to undermine the dieters' resolve. After the excessive consumption of milk shake, the dieters decided that since the diet had been blown out of the water anyway, they may as well make the most of the situation and have lots of ice cream! Hunger and fullness had nothing to do with it!
This is a feeling which all dieters recognise. After succumbing to a biscuit you think: "Oh sod it, I may as well eat the cheese cake as well, and start the diet again tomorrow!"
The scary film experiment
By denying themselves the food they really want, dieters also make food much more important and give it a significance that it does not have for non-dieters. For instance, dieters are more likely than non-dieters to eat in order to suppress bad feelings.
In a study carried out in London, female volunteers were divided into three groups: the first were put on a strict diet, the second undertook a rigorous exercise programme and the third neither dieted nor exercised. After five weeks, the researchers got the women to watch a stressful film, and measured the women's food intake while they watched it. Bowls of food such as sweets and nuts were left beside the women and they were told to eat as much as they liked. Even though none of the women were hungry, those in the diet group ate far more than the women in the two other groups.
This probably won't be a surprise to anyone who has ever been on a diet. They may result in short term weight loss but they cause so many problems that the vast majority of people end up fatter in the long run. However, the effects can be reversed!
Roz Watkins, founder of Templeton Weight Mastery, is a professional coach, NLP Master Practitioner and hypnotherapist. She specialises in helping people lose weight and maintain a healthy slim weight WITHOUT DIETING. She can help you lose weight and keep it off for good by changing the way you think.
Do you wish you could be a slim, healthy weight without dieting?
Do you wonder how your slim friends seem to eat so much?
Are you beginning to suspect that diets just don't work?
Are you sick of thinking about food all the time?
Dieting doesn't work. The vast majority of people who diet put back on more weight than they lost.
You can lose weight and keep it off, but most people are going about it in completely the wrong way.
Source : http://EzineArticles.com
