Lesson 9: Food And Relapse Prevention - Slide 21

We Are Not Good At Estimating
- When people estimate almost anything, weight, height, brightness, loudness, sweetness, etc. we consistently underestimate as things get larger
- We’re fairly accurate at estimating weight of a 2 pound rock
- We grossly underestimate the weight of an 80 pound rock
- The smaller the meal, the more accurate people are at estimating its calories level
- The larger the meal, the less accurate
- The more people eat, the less accurate they are, whether they are skinny or obese
- It’s meal size that determines how accurate we are at estimating the calories we’ve eaten
Notes:
Pg. 54-55, Wansink, Brian, 2006, “Mindless Eating, Why We Eat More Than We Think” Bantam Book, New York.