Want To Resist Junk Food? Just Put It Off

MSNBC:

If a forbidden doughnut is tempting you to break your diet, tell yourself you'll have a bite later — just don't specify when.
That strategy makes it less likely you'll go on a doughnut-eating spree, according to new research presented here last week at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Unlike simply delaying gratification ("I'll wait until dessert"), promising yourself a temptation at a nebulous later date can actually decrease the amount of your ultimate consumption of that temptation.

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08:49 AM on 04/26/2012

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[jgarma]

03:57 PM on 02/04/2012

Could work, but if you eat to nurture (not nourish), you want that doughnut now to feel good now... waiting till later may feel like emotional punishment that will be avoided.

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