Stress-related food preferences: Crunchy or sweet foods (pretzels, candy).
Making Peace with Food
Principle 3: Making Peace with Food:
Counteracts deprivation backlash.
Deprivation backlash: Restriction leads to overeating.
Deprivation Backlash:
Analogy: Pulling a rubber band; more restriction leads to a greater rebound.
Last Supper Eating:
Eating large amounts of "forbidden" foods before starting a diet.
Examples: December before a January 1 diet, Fat Tuesday before Lent.
Rebound Eating:
Occurs in big families or groups where food is consumed quickly.
Driven by fear of not getting enough food.
Eating fast without paying attention to hunger cues.
Analogy: Competition for resources.
Restaurant example: Splitting a dessert, unconsciously mirroring the other person's eating speed.
Returning Home Syndrome:
Craving specific "real" meals or snacks after a period of restricted food choices (e.g., camping).
Example: Going home for break and wanting specific homemade meals and snacks.
Empty Cupboard Example:
Experiencing a lack of preferred foods due to infrequent grocery shopping.
Leads to overeating when desired foods become available again.
Not necessarily related to poverty or food deserts.
Captivity Behavior:
Tendency to overeat when food is available due to past deprivation (e.g., prisoner of war, abused child).
Depression Era:
Limited resources and food scarcity lead to resourceful eating habits.
Example: Eating all parts of an animal or using unconventional food sources like dandelions.
Lifetime/One Last Shot:
Eating as much as possible of a special dish in a rare or unique situation.
Driven by the belief that the opportunity won't arise again.
Example: Dining at an exclusive restaurant with a long reservation wait.
How Dieters Adapt
Restraint Eating:
Dieters suppress their hunger cues.
Art to stop listening to the body.
They change their mindset
They change responsiveness to body cues
They psychological restricting
They change their psychological response
They eat other things instead of what they want for example carrots.
Northwestern University Study:
Examined eating behavior of restrained eaters.
57 female college students participated.
Participants were given a 10-question test to identify restrained eaters.
Subjects were given a pre-load of milkshakes (0, 1, or 2 milkshakes).
Participants then tasted and rated three flavored ice creams in private.
Results: Non-dieters regulated their eating, eating less ice cream if they had more milkshakes.
Dieters, however, ate more ice cream if they had more milkshakes.
*They were forcing dieters to break rules.
*They were for forcing the dieters to overeat or blow their diet.
*Diet mentality: Thinking it's all or none.
What the Hell Effect:
Breaking a diet rule leads to overeating.
Restricting psychologically until a rule is broken.
Breaking a rule can cause overeating.
Seesaw Syndrome
Seesaw Syndrome:
Deprivation vs. guilt related to "forbidden" foods.
Eating the food leads to guilt; not eating it leads to deprivation.
The longer foods are prohibited, the more desirable they become.
Body craves high-fat, high-calorie foods, especially carbohydrates.
Unconditional Permission to Eat:
Giving yourself permission to eat can be very scary if you're a chronic dieter with a history of dieting.
Challenging for individuals with a history of dieting.
Start with neutral foods.
Black-and-White Thinking:
*Foods are classified as good or bad.
*On/off diet.
*Perfect/horrible failure.
The objective is to eat what you really want.
Satisfaction:
Eating what you want satisfies you, so the assumption is that in the long run you wind up eating less.
Obligatory Penance:
Compensatory behaviors, such as exercising more or restricting food intake after eating a "forbidden" food.
SNAP story:
Older lady buys Lay's potato chips every month when her SNAP money comes in
She eats the whole bag, which is her ritual.
But once our body knows that there's not gonna be any deprivation, you're gonna have those chips all the time.
Your body doesn't you don't you don't desire, that is, it's no longer a big deal to have it.
Traps:
There are instances when it is claimed that dieting has co-opted intuitive eating.
Another claim is that when people try the method they won't eat healthily.
Lack of Self Trust:
A client was freaking out after noticing her child was eating enough for her husband, but it ended up being a growth spurt. Remember situations are temporary, don't need to impose what we think are normal values for someone with a different body.