Can a pencil and spoon really be all that you need

Just been reading an interesting little book 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot from a well known British Psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman.

As you all know there is a lot of fluff out there when it comes to personal development especially when it comes to diet and fatloss.  What the Prof  has done in this book is to look at scientific studies that have actually been proved to work and explain the reasoning in Under a Minute .

It’s well worth reading.

There are a few tips  that are directly related to weightloss. Here’s what he recommends:

1.  Keep a food Diary

Write down everything you eat during the day. No surprise that this works the sheer fact of knowing that you are going to have to write it down in your diary can be enough of an incentive not to eat that chocolate bar. It’s what we’ve always recommended in Four Week FatLoss but from the other direction we recommend that you plan what you are going to eat for the week ahead of time and stick to that.

2. Beware of Large Crockery

When you use bigger plates and serving spoons you end up eating a lot more.  A study showed that using a bigger serving spoon resulted in 13% more ice cream being taken and a bigger bowl a whopping 31% more.  If you use big spoons and big bowls and plates at home – you’re in BIG trouble. 

You might not want to get a new set of crockery, however if you seriously want to change your life then it’s a relatively easy change to make.

There are a few more tips from the book that I’ll tell you about in my next post.

Let me know if either of these make sense to you and if you need to  or are going to make any of these changes.

Matt Lovell