{"id":79,"date":"2011-04-13T13:33:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T20:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatlossscience.org\/naturalweightlosstips\/?p=79"},"modified":"2012-05-28T14:04:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T21:04:28","slug":"calm-food-cravings-naturally-visualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatlossscience.org\/naturalweightlosstips\/calm-food-cravings-naturally-visualization\/","title":{"rendered":"Calm Food Cravings Naturally with Visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University conducted an experiment involving three groups of undergraduate students. Each group was told to imagine doing a task. The tasks to be imagined were as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Group 1 &#8211; Insert 30 quarters into a laundry machine, and then eat 3 M&amp;Ms.<\/li>\n<li>Group 2 &#8211; Insert 3 quarters into a laundry machine, and then eat 30 M&amp;Ms.<\/li>\n<li>Group 3 &#8211; Insert 33 quarters into a laundry machine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After completing their assigned visualizations, the participants were allowed to eat as much as they wanted from a bowl of real M&amp;Ms. Those who had imagined eating 30 M&amp;Ms ate an average of only 3 real M&amp;Ms from the bowl, while participants from the other two groups ate an average of 5.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers then conducted a follow-up experiment in which participants were asked to imagine either eating 3 or 30 M&amp;Ms or transferring the same number of M&amp;Ms from one bowl to another. The participants were then allowed to eat as many real M&amp;Ms as they liked. Consistent with the first experiment, participants who had imagined eating 30 M&amp;Ms subsequently ate&nbsp;fewer real M&amp;Ms than those who had imagined eating only 3. Participants who imagined transferring 30 M&amp;Ms from one bowl to another, however, subsequently ate <em>more<\/em> real M&amp;Ms than those who had imagined moving only 3. While the M&amp;M cravings of the first group were dampened, the cravings of the second group were intensified.<\/p>\n<p>The study was published in the December 10 issue of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/sciencenow\/2010\/12\/to-eat-less-imagine-eating-more.html?ref=hp\">Science<\/a><\/em>. <em>Time<\/em> has an insightful review discussing this study in a broader context of <a href=\"http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2010\/12\/09\/the-imagination-diet-visualizing-eating-helps-cut-real-life-consumption\/\">food and drug addictions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance to Natural Weight Loss:<\/strong> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"3stars\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fatlossscience.org\/naturalweightlosstips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/stars3.png?resize=46%2C14\" alt=\"\" width=\"46\" height=\"14\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Weight Loss Tip: <\/strong>To calm a food craving naturally, imagine eating large amounts of the craved food. 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The tasks to be imagined were as follows: Group 1 &#8211; Insert 30 quarters into a laundry machine, and then eat 3 M&amp;Ms. Group 2 &#8211; Insert 3 quarters into a laundry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,16,17],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-to-curb-food-cravings","tag-cravings","tag-food","tag-visualization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1u2bj-1h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatlossscience.org\/naturalweightlosstips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatlossscience.org\/naturalweightlosstips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatlossscience.org\/naturalweightlosstips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatlossscience.org\/naturalweightlosstips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatlossscience.org\/naturalweightlosstips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/fatlossscience.org\/naturalweightlosstips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/fatlossscience.org\/naturalweightlosstips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatlossscience.org\/naturalweightlosstips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatlossscience.org\/naturalweightlosstips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatlossscience.org\/naturalweightlosstips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}