Lesson 9: Food And Relapse Prevention - Slide  27

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The More We Think About Food The More We Eat It, So Manage Cues

  • Out of sight, out of mind
  • Simply thinking of food can make you hungry
  • The more we like a food, the faster we chew and swallow
  • The more you think of a food, the more of it you will eat
  • So manage cues to eat:
  • Make healthy foods easy to see and less healthy foods harder to see, that is in the cupboard downstairs
  • Avoid driving by stores and places that sell the foods you want to stop eating
  • Avoid walking through the kitchen between meals to reduce cues for impulsive snacking
  • Purchase foods that take effort to prepare or use
  • Don’t store fast foods and tempting foods at home or in your workplace
Notes:

Pg. 78-84,93, Wansink, Brian, 2006, “Mindless Eating, Why We Eat More Than We Think” Bantam Book, New York.

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