I think you are going to be shocked and surprised at the information I am going to share with you today.

Did you know that advertising you’re viewing every day could be “priming” your eating behavior, causing you to eat more?

This is a perfect example of how you could be eating more than you realize, and having trouble getting to your goal weight, without you realizing it.

Check this out:

In a recent study in the Journal of Health Psycology (I’ll link up the abstract below), adults watched a TV program that included food advertising that promoted snacking and/or fun product benefits, food advertising that promoted nutrition benefits, or no food advertising.

The adults then tasted and evaluated a range of healthy to unhealthy snack foods in an apparently separate experiment.

Adults consumed more of both healthy and unhealthy snack foods following exposure to snack food advertising compared to the other conditions.

Again, advertising you’re viewing every day could be “priming” your eating behavior, causing you to eat more.

So what can you do about it?

And how many other factors – that you probably don’t even know about – are causing you to gain and hold on to weight?

This is the kind of thing we are going to talk about – and come up with stratgies to overcome, and hold you accountable to – in our FLAG = F-at L-oss A-ccountability G-roup.

So if you want to get the best results in the shortest amount of time, join us! We start March 24th:

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Thanks, talk soon!

-Forest Vance
Owner, FVT small group and personal training

Study link => https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2009-10284-004

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See, I believe that some of the biggest issues with most diets on the market today are:

1 – They are far too hard to follow.

2 – They are very restrictive.

3 – Often, they are downright confusing.

Why?

It’s because they are designed as a “one-size-fits-all” – type solution.

They don’t account for specific food preferences.

They don’t account for your busy schedule.

And after working with thousands upon thousands of clients over the last 15 years, I’ve come to the realization that, looking at the ones that get the best reults, you need a diet taylored for YOU and YOUR body and goals.

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-Forest Vance, Owner, FVT Fitness

Pumping yourself up to go on a diet and lose weight for a vacation, reunion, or athletic event is one thing.

Keeping the weight off for the longer term is another thing all together.

And the long term results are what we focus on here at FVT, so we are always looking for ways to help you do it better and more effectively.

That’s why I wanted to share the results of a new piece of research that I recently came across.

See, a new Cal Poly study published in Obesity shows that healthy self-monitoring and phsycological coping strategies are the keys to long-term success.

The study surveyed almost 5,000 members of WW (formerly Weight Watchers) who reported losing an average of about 50 pounds and kept it off for more than three years. Researchers compared this group to a control group of more than 500 people with obesity and who reported not gaining or losing more than five pounds for a period of greater than five years.

The research team examined 54 behaviors related to weight management. Compared to the group of weight-stable individuals, the group of weight loss maintainers reported more frequent use of strategies like setting daily food intake goals, recording what was eaten each day, measuring foods, thinking about past successes, and remaining positive in the face of weight regain.

The researchers also found that these eating and thinking behaviors became easier and more ingrained over time in the group of those maintaining their weight loss.

Cool thing is, we give both of these things attention in our nutrition coaching program.

Because we meet with you individually to help set daily food intake goals, help you learn how to effectively record your foods, etc…

…but we also have specific exercises and methods we employ that focus on helping you stay positive and your focus in the right place.

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To sum up, this new study shows that there is science behind the idea that we not only need to focus on WHAT do to lose the weight, but that the thinking and behaviors behind it are equally important.

I hope the infomration and tips in today’s article help you implement this idea into your health and fitness plan for long term success.

’till next time

-Forest and the FVT Team

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