Avoid Weight Gain by Placing Sweet Food Out of Reach
A lot of us have access to all sorts of cakes, sweets, candies, cookies and countless other “snack food” at the workplace. Believe it or not, where you place these snacks will ultimately decide how much of weight you put on in a year.
We go back to Brian Wansink’s Cornell University Food and Brand Lab to see what effect the location of a candy bowl has on an office worker’s weight gain.
Apparently, when the candy jar lies visible within reach, it was found that the average office worker ate almost 9 candies a day.
When the jar was moved out of visibility but still within convenient reach into the drawer, the average office worker ate something like 6 candies a day.
On the other hand when the jar was moved only 6 feet away, the average worker ate approximately 4 candies a day. The jar was just within the line of sight but out of convenient reach.
This does not apply only to candies but all other calorie dense food and sweets that you may find within the vicinity of the office or your kitchen. Keeping a cookie jar on your office table is a big mistake! Why not keep 2 apples instead such that you could take 1 between breakfast and lunch and take another between lunch and dinner. And limit it to this.
Another big mistake is to keep cookies or cakes in glass jars in a very convenient position in your kitchen. Every time you go to the kitchen and pass this jar, you have to make a decision of whether to eat or not to eat that cookie. It has got nothing to do with willpower. If you see the jar, you have to decide one way on another. Why do this in the first place? Why not be smart and not be forced to make these choices at all?
Why not just place all cookies, cakes, sweets, desserts out of visible sight and in an inconvenient place? Watch this interesting video by Brian Wansink that drives home this point.
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13/10/2011
It is certainly the sweets which greatly affect weight gain, keeping it out of reach is indeed a good way of keeping the weight away as well.
14/10/2011
The more you keep sweets within your reach the more temptation would sink in, so it would be better if you get rid of it for good.
17/10/2011
Losing weight is clearly difficult when you have access to the things which causes it, try to learn how you can be able to discipline yourself and get rid of the sweets.