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  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/_i9HO1iJSYE   Stepping on your bathroom scale daily is the Jedi mind trick that painlessly stops weight gain over the holidays and these inactive winter months.  This battle plan comes from nutritionists at The University of Georgia.   Their study began before Thanksgiving and ended mid-January.  It involved 111 adults half of whom weighed themselves on a WiFi-enabled scale that graphically displayed their weights over time.  The others just ate without any numeric feedback.     The scale watchers gained no weight, and, if overweight, actually lost weight.  The controls gained up to 7 pounds on average.   If you want to look good in your swim suit come June, begin a daily weigh-in and chart it.   Sepideh Kaviani, Michelle vanDellen, Jamie A. Cooper. Daily Self‐Weighing to Prevent Holiday‐Associated Weight Gain in Adults. Obesity, 2019; 27 (6): 908 DOI: 10.1002/oby.22454   #Dieting #scale #winter #holidays #Mindtricks