{"id":828,"date":"2011-12-06T16:42:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T23:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatlossscience.org\/naturalweightlosstips\/?p=828"},"modified":"2012-06-04T11:45:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T18:45:42","slug":"suppressed-thoughts-binging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatlossscience.org\/naturalweightlosstips\/suppressed-thoughts-binging\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought Suppression and Overeating"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Trying to suppress thoughts of a craved food can cause you to eat even more of it at the first opportunity. That’s what St. George’s University of London researchers concluded after observing 116 chocolate-tasting female undergraduates. The women had been divided into three groups. One group was told to think about anything but<\/em> chocolate for five minutes, another group was told to think about only<\/em> chocolate, and the third group was told to think about whatever they wanted. Later, when the women were asked to compare two brands of chocolate in a taste test, the group of thought suppressors took a few extra bites…just to be sure.<\/p>\n

You can read more about the just-don’t-think-about-it<\/a> study on NCBI’s web site. <\/p>\n

Relevance to Natural Weight Loss:<\/strong> \"\"<\/p>\n

Weight Loss Tip:<\/strong> Instead of trying to suppress thoughts of food you are craving, use this visualization trick<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trying to suppress thoughts of a craved food can cause you to eat even more of it at the first opportunity. That’s what St. George’s University of London researchers concluded after observing 116 chocolate-tasting female undergraduates. The women had been divided into three groups. One group was told to think about anything but chocolate for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[42,15,29,17],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-temptations","category-tips-to-curb-food-cravings","tag-chocolate","tag-cravings","tag-junk-food","tag-visualization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t