Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Psychological
explanations for
the success &
failure of dieting
- Restraint
Theory
- Try to
restrain /
restrict food
intake
- Chances
are - end up
overeating
- Homeostasis -
Hypothalamus
(balances the
body)
- Physiological
boundary for
eating
- AO2 -
Implication for
treatment of
obesity
- Boundary
Model
- Normal eater -
level of hunger
and satiety
- Restrained
eater - Has a
satiety level and
a hunger level
- Hunger level
more restricted,
due to the diet
boundary placed
- Takes
longer to
get hungry
- Takes more to
make you feel
satieted
- Dieters use
self - imposed
cognitive diet
boundary
- Stretch the
physiological
boundary
- AO2 - Wardle &
Beales (1988)
- 27 obese
women in 3
conditions
- Given taste
test of
milkshake
(preload)
- Either no pre
- load /1
milkshake / 2
milkshakes
- Q on
restrained
eating
- Following pre - load -
taste test of 3 tubs of
icecream, told they
could eat as much as
they liked
- Those who scored
high on restrained
eating Q ate more
ice - cream if they
had pre - load
- Those who
were'normal' eaters
ate less ice - cream if
they had pre- - load
- Restrained eaters
went over their
cognitive diet
boundary due to the
high carb pre - load
- Unrestrained eaters
only eat until
satisfied - felt fuller
after the pre - load
- Denial
- Suppress
thoughts of
certain foods
leads to wanted
them more
- Theory of ironic
processes of
mental control
- Wegner et
al (1987)
- Ppts who were asked
not to think of a white
polar bear thought of it
more then ppts allowed
to think of the white
polar bear
- Detail
(Successful
diets)
- Not
salads
again!
- Think about
the different
parts of the
food you are
eating
- I.e. Baby tomatoes,
cucumber, lettuce
etc, etc.
- Redden
(2008)
- Jelly
Beans