How to Not Let Social Events Grow Your Waistline

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Maybe you’re coasting on your diet, or have disciplined the mind and body to not allow food to control you any longer. Perhaps, there has been a mastering over last-night cravings, after work refrigerator exploration, or cookie raids. However, for some reason when you go out to socialize, and food in involved, another person takes over the body! Church picnics, weddings, work lunches, and meeting at a café can sabotage a diet over time. And it is cyclical to the seasons as well. We have the winter holidays, spring and summer vacations, and fall treats—nana’s cooking. But you can prevent social events from growing the waistline. Here is how.

Colors Can Damage or Help

Eating in bright colored places and food will make you eat more by stimulating the hypothalamus! Kari Hartel, RD, LD wrote aobut this discovering on Fit Day: “Scientists agree that color has a significant impact on how appealing or unappealing a food is to you. Just seeing food causes all sorts of reactions in your body. Neurons in a part of your brain called the hypothalamus, which regulates appetite, start firing up. The mere sight of food causes glands in your mouth to start increasing saliva production in preparation for eating.” The most appealing colors are yellow, red, and the least is blue. Green foods are usually safe, think veggies and salads. Also color impacts your moods, so keep this in mind.