Can you actually think yourself thinner?
I know, I know, I hear you–if it was that simple we'd all be in size 2 skinny jeans by now. And I'm not talking about hypnosis or cds you play while you sleep either. A recent study by scientists at Harvard University showed that people could actually think themselves thinner by just focusing on and appreciating how much exercise they already do as part of their regular jobs. The study says,
"…amazingly, despite no change in actual exercise levels, in the intervention group, simply being told about the value of what they were already doing caused a significant change for the better on every single one of the objective health measures recorded: weight, body fat, body mass index, waist-to-hip ratio and blood pressure."
The intervention group lost an average of two pounds in four weeks, and they didn't do any more exercise! So, all you lovely ladies out there, let's start to appreciate all the exercise we do on a daily basis:
- Sleeping toddler dead-lift
- House cleaning: cleaning, vacuuming, dusting, laundry, cooking, scrubbing yogurt off the couch, etc.
- Lego long-jump-making it across the floor without being impaled by the edge of a lego.
- Sprint-to Soothe when your little one needs their mommy
- Aerobic hurdling- just try cooking dinner while your little one is on your hip and the other one is playing with the contents of a cupboard all over the floor.
- Clean-up time squats
And many more…
In the interest of science, and since I wholly endorse any weight loss technique that doesn't tell me I can't eat cheese or cake (or cheesecake, yum), let's all try to focus on how much exercise our lives really have in them. And who knows, maybe we'll all be in skinny jeans in a few months!
Laura will be appreciating the exercise she already does at mommymenagerie!
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