- Being overweight does not equal weak willpower
Roy Baumeister calls this phenomenon the Oprah paradox: Even people with extraordinary willpower may not be able to keep their weight under control. In fact, his research found that people with high self-control were only marginally more successful at weight control than the average person, a small victory that was nothing compared to their achievements elsewhere.
- Dieting will actually make you fatter. Is it really because the basal metabolic rate drops?
You who take weight loss as your career may have long known that dieting will reduce the basal metabolic rate, and even know that you can only eat 85% of the calories a day to lose weight and be healthy, and then you secretly like to lose 15% every day. But what you may not know is that another culprit that really makes dieters fat is the what-the-hell effect (the more academic term is counterregulatory eating) – when you find out that you have broken your diet today If the calorie is exceeded, he will say to himself, “Fuck him, lose weight tomorrow! Losing weight tomorrow is the most beautiful lie in the world, and the weight gradually accumulates from the management over and over again. !
One study brought both dieters and non-dieters into the lab on an empty stomach, and then made the dieters eat more than the standard calories they had set in their hearts. Then, serve small pieces of sandwiches for everyone to enjoy. It turns out that non-dieters can easily answer how many sandwiches they eat, but dieters can’t, either underestimate or overestimate. We think that dieting is a kind of self-monitoring, but when dieting, we really only do one kind of supervision: set a calorie limit, and once it crosses the limit, it’s up to him!
- Saying no to your mouth will make you want more
When you suppress yourself more and ask yourself not to think about something, it becomes more vivid. This is why when I am in love, I tell myself not to think about him anymore, but will keep thinking of him; this is also why, the more people who keep emphasizing that he and I are just good friends and that it is absolutely impossible to be together, the more likely they are to be together in the end. The depleted state of rejection and repression intensifies your feelings about life.
The study found that people who watched touching movies in moderation and refrained from crying ate half as much ice cream as those who could cry freely after the experiment. Willpower is often associated with food because self-control requires depleting glucose in the blood. Therefore, psychologists also gave it a very sad name called Ego Depletion (or Ego Depletion). All in all, the biggest enemy of dieters is not calories, but a dilemma: 1. To keep yourself from eating, you need willpower; 2. Willpower must be maintained by eating, so you may convince yourself to relax your diet limit. As a result, if he accidentally crosses the line, let him be!
