What Surprising Food Can Lead to Significant Weight Loss?
If you’re trying to lose weight, your first inclination may be to think about all the foods that you can’t eat anymore. But scientific research has repeatedly shown that this type of thinking doesn’t work—at least long-term.
According to a scientific analysis that looked at 31 long-term dieting studies, while people often lose 5 to 10% of their weight initially, most end up gaining back more than what they lost. Why? Researchers say that it’s hard to be consistent when you can never enjoy the foods you like.
What works better, it seems, is focusing on all the foods you can eat instead of what’s off-limits. For example, one study compared two groups of people with obesity who were trying to lose weight. One group focused on calorie restriction. The other group focused on intuitive eating, which is a non-diet approach that centers on listening to the body’s internal hunger cues and cravings. After six weeks, the intuitive eating group had lost significantly more weight than the calorie-restricting group.
Excerpted from Parade
