Study: Lie To Yourself, Lose Weight

“It sounds maniacal, but a group of Yale researchers discovered that lying to people about food actually helps them lose weight.

The satiety of a food – how satisfied it leaves you, in other words – plays a big role in whether you’re going to keep eating or not. But a food’s perceived satiety might be quite different from how much it actually fills you up. The trick is to convince yourself that the low-fat, not particularly filling foods are actually rare treats that are just chock full of empty calories.” READ MORE