I stumbled upon the following post by Brian Wansink at his Amazon.com blog:
Lose 33 lbs. by Drinking Coffee?
9:25 PM PDT, May 17, 2009Last Thursday night in Minnesota, I gave a speech about some of the small – and seemingly bizarre – changes in diets that have led to people losing large amounts of weight.Afterward a woman in her early fifties excitedly told she had last 33 pounds in the past 6 months by making only one change: She started drinking black coffee. More accurately, she had started drinking black coffee because she had stopped drinking it with cream and sugar.
Of the hundreds of small changes people have told me about that have helped them lose 25 lbs or more in less than a year, this was a first. When I was back at the hotel, I did a little math. Unless this woman drank over 7 cups of coffee a day (a possibility), the math didn’t add up.
What I suspect happened was that she did make this cream and sugar change. But this cream and sugar change probably led to her making other changes that were less obvious to her. It might have given her less of a sweet-tooth or less of a reason to sit down for a snack.
What small changes have you made that have led to other unexpected changes in what or how much you ate?
1.) Not obsess about it, but remain obsessed with only ONE thing–my Lord Jesus!
