Hi,
On dutch television they followed a woman who was overweight,although she did not use more than 1200 calories.
She had to write down what she had eaten and they followed her on camera.
The strange thing was that she claimed to eat not more than 1200 calories but she forgot to write down also 1500 calories.
This woman was shocked and did not do this on purpose but for some reason the mind did not count ''bad food''.
After confrontating her with this, she kept on forgetting to count the ''bad food''.
Than they researched her brain and the reaction on different foods and the conclusion was: she could not help it. The brain fooled her for some reason.
Not a nice thing to know if you're overweight!!!!
I've seen stuff like this before, especially when morbidly obese people are asked how much they eat.
I just thought it was a form of denial, but I don't know if I would clasify it as a breakthrough in understanding obesity.
ReplyHmm. Here's my theory about "bad food" and why it's easy to overeat it: Say you eat a "handful" of chips and you write down the calories in one serving. But if you ate a "handful" of chips that was 2 or 3 serving sizes, you would have eaten an extra 200-300 calories that you didn't write down. Most "bad" foods are very calorically dense and it's VERY easy to eat more than a serving size at once.
Replymy BIL is obese.he claimed that he doesnt eat that much. To my surprise... he can eat 11 slices of bread in just 2 minutes...........
ReplySounds to me like she's eating in denial and chooses not to be mindful of what she eats. I don't buy that she can't help forgetting to write stuff down: it's called selective memory. What if she had to write down everything BEFORE she put in her mouth, would that change her habit, I wonder? This all sounds like another excuse to eat 'bad' food.
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