Comments on: Slim by Design: An Interview with Brian Wansink https://cruciallearning.com/blog/slim-by-design/ VitalSmarts is now Crucial Learning Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:27:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Lila Stageberg, MD https://cruciallearning.com/blog/slim-by-design/#comment-3701 Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:27:41 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=5516#comment-3701 The term “Mindless Eating” makes an excellent point because you have to be mindful, but only once. When you are feeling strong and clear, you consider your areas that influence your eating, and make decisions THEN that allow you to be mindless and on autopilot later. This is the best use of the cognitive skills our brains now layer on top of the lizard brain.

]]> By: Joseph Parent https://cruciallearning.com/blog/slim-by-design/#comment-3700 Wed, 08 Oct 2014 16:00:49 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=5516#comment-3700 Brian,
Your principle of using environment and other cues that influence our eating behavior are excellent. It’s a big part of my diet program and upcoming book, “The Zen of Dieting.”
However, I wouldn’t call it mindless, because in regard to all the tips and changes, you’re asking people to be MINDFUL of their environment, of remembering to express gratitude, etc.
Recognizing which locations help and which don’t, as well as changing habits, requires mindfulness of where you are and what you’re doing.
And I agree – making those environmental changes makes better eating happen in a natural, unforced way that makes the habits more likely to last.

Keep up the good work – it will make people healthier and happier!
(By the way, nice to see your lab is at Cornell – I’m an alum).

Joseph Parent, Ph.D.
Author of Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game

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