Three weird, simple, and unusually easy ways to lose weight?
Opinion
Easiest ways to lose weight?
3 weird ways to weight loss that Adam and Eve
didn't need
By Brandi Fisher : July 25, 2009
If there was ever a perfect diet, or a way to keep weight off without worrying about it, I've always thought it must have been the diet Adam and Eve followed.
God gave them a meat-free diet of luscious fruit with herbs
in the Garden of Eden, where they obviously would have kept thin,
healthy and active.
Things have changed in Western societies. Today we are a nation of fatties who rarely exercise and rarely stick to good food.
But I may have good news for those who, like me, are always on the lookout for the easiest ways to lose weight. I have found 3 offbeat ways that purport to help keep the weight off while you do almost nothing.
Sounds too good to be true?
Well, it probably is. In fact, some of this goes against commonsense, so I can't guarantee they will work, but they allegedly come with some sort of scientific backing.
They won't cost you anything, and you don't have to do much to implement them, which probably makes them attractive to overweight people. But burgers and fries are also attractive to overweight people, and we know how much good they don't do.
1. Sleep more.
Several studies published in medical journals have shown that when you are not getting enough sleep your hormones may direct you toward obesity.
Dr. Michael Thorpy, director of the Sleep-Wake Disorders Center at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, said “Anyone making a commitment to lose weight should probably consider a parallel commitment to getting more sleep.” (See article Sleep more to lose weight.)
Numerous other studies have shown that sleep loss has an effect on appetite and metabolism. So, get more sleep.
2. Think about being thin.
A Canadian study got a group of people who exercised regularly. The researchers then put them up against a group who didn't exercise but who simply thought about exercising three times a week.
When the thinkers were compared with the exercisers, the researchers found that the thinkers gained nearly as much strength as the exercisers.
Another study found a 35% increase in muscle strength in people who imagined exercising for 15 minutes a day, five days a week over 12 weeks.
Now I don't know how thinking about exercising can burn up as many calories as exercising. It seems absurd and I will continue to recommend doing exercise rather than thinking about exercise. But the research appeared in an article in the Mail by Sally Ann Voak and Ann Shooter, both highly regarded authors of diet books with decades of expertise in the field.
Elena Gorgan, Life and Style editor, also wrote about this strange study in Softpedia.
Personally, I recommend that to get the most out of thinking about exercise that you actually do exercise as well.
3. Eat from smaller plates.
If you think your stomach will tell you how full you are, think again.
Cognitive Daily published a fascinating article about “self-refilling bowls”. Volunteers were recruited to have a soup-only lunch. One group of volunteers had their soup bowls filled by a server whenever they wanted them filled. The other group had bowls that, unknown to the eaters, had a tube at the base that slowly filled the bowls with more soup.
Even though everyone's bowl was refilled, the people eating from self-refilling bowls ate a staggering 73% more soup. Even more surprising is that they didn't feel different from the group whose bowls were filled manually.
This means, I think, that your stomach can't tell you when you are full, so you might as well put your food on a small plate so that it looks like you are eating more.
Well, if these aren't the easiest ways to lose weight you've ever heard of, there's something wrong. So excuse me while I lie down and think about eating luscious fruit and herbs from a small plate in the Garden of Eden before I go to the gym for a 30-minute workout.
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