Is Your Fridge Making You Fat?
Posted on April 2, 2015
It’s 8:30 at night, you’re watching T.V and you’re bored. You’re ‘in-between’ shows so you meander into your kitchen and find yourself starring at the fridge, with the door open the light glow showers your face the cool breeze tickles your hand as you reach for the homemade salted chocolate caramel square delight that was left over from the weekend and take the container back to the couch to enjoy the magnificent treat for the duration of your next show.
This exact story probably doesn’t apply to you but I’m sure some variation of it does. How could it have been avoided? Researcher Brian Wansink, author of Slim by Design has a strategy that I swear by and have used to help dozens of clients lose weight and keep it off. Although the entire strategy is multifaceted the premise is simple, make foods you should eat more easily available and foods you shouldn’t eat less available. This means putting foods you should eat on the first shelf you see, preparing them in advance so all you have to do is grab them and putting it in containers that are see through. Now take food you should eat less of and create barriers between you and it. This means putting it in multiple small containers you can’t see through push it to the back of the fridge or better yet put it in the freezer behind the frozen vegetables so you can ‘forget’ that it’s there. Is this a fool proof way for success in eating more healthily all the time? No, but it will definitely cut down on the total number of calories you eat on any given day which means losing weight over the long term. The best part is you don’t have to change how you do groceries and it’s something you can start doing today.
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