Eating In Front of Mirror to Lose Weight

This really interesting weight loss tip of Eat in Front of The Mirror to Lose Weight has some psychological Mind Body research to back it up.

The joint research between Arizona State University and Erasmus University in Rotterdam concluded that viewing yourself eating encourages us to eat less.

During their experiments, the researchers placed a mirror in front of participants and found that those eating in front of a mirror consumed less food. The researchers believe that this is because seeing ourselves eat makes us more aware of our bodies and that we do not want to watch ourselves overeat.
Source - Huffington Post

This is really interesting and was back by a nudging experiment which was shown on the BBC one show (I have looked to find it for you but can't find it at the moment) that had two bowls, one with fruit and one with chocolate. The first time the experiment was set up most people ate Chocolate. The second time they set up the experiment and a different group of people came to choose between the bowls more of them chose fruit. The only difference between the two set ups was on the second set up they had a mirror behind the bowls so the person choosing could see a reflection of themselves when selecting. When the experiment is repeated it gets the same results. Here is a slightly different method to encourage eating Fruit instead of Chocolate but you can get the idea from the video how similar it is.

My suggestion from this is to have a mirror in front of you when you eat, a mirror on your fridge door and a blue light on the inside and see how this effects your weight loss and portion control.

Take care

Mindful Mark