A New Diet Study Says Serve Yourself
If you’re looking to stay on your diet, the worst thing you can do is have an enabler feeding you food that you shouldn’t be consuming. Or someone who leaves out portioned snacks for easy consumption. You almost feel bad not eating it, right? A new diet study could change your mind. New research says, feed yourself to keep your waistline in check. What exactly does that mean?
When you serve yourself, more times than not, you’re likely to serve yourself a smaller portion than if someone put the exact same food on a plate for you. For instance, that piece of pie someone sliced for you is probably bigger than the one you would have sliced for yourself. Now, I’m not saying that by having to serve yourself you wouldn’t eat that unhealthy food choice —but rather if it’s there in front of you, you’re more inclined to eat it. Make sense?
The Blame Game: A New Diet Study
When researchers looked at eating habits of two different groups, they found that “If they’re served by someone else, they can outsource responsibility to someone else. But if they serve themselves, they have to accept responsibility and that makes them feel bad.” It’s easy for us to say we ate something because someone gave it to us. You’re at a family gathering and your Mom made her amazing apple pie and cut you a nice big piece… how could you say no? Right? Begrudgingly you eat it. “But Mom cut it for me and I didn’t want to say no and hurt her feelings.” Sound familiar?
We redirect the blame of consuming that unhealthy food choice because we don’t want to take responsibility for getting it ourselves and have to look in the mirror and explain why you just ate half the apple pie yourself when you know that’s not part of your diet. When someone gets their own portion or eats something, not on their diet, they have no one to blame but themselves.
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