The studies were initially criticized for discouraging people from losing weight. It’s these chronic dieters who are always on and off diets. Polivy, now a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. “Dieters show cognitive differences in how they view things,” said Dr. Their research was inspired by a student who mentioned that her sorority sisters dieted all day, but at night “ate everything in sight.” The observation led to a series of fascinating experiments that highlighted the psychological changes that occur when people begin to restrict their eating. Peter Herman, a psychology professor, began studying the psychological effects of dieting at Northwestern University in the 1970s. Janet Polivy, then a graduate student, along with C. Breaking the rules of a diet typically leads to a new cycle of overeating, which in turn leads to yet another diet. Diets, because of their restrictive nature, impose an all-or-nothing mind-set that sets us up to fail. If that cycle sounds familiar to you, welcome to the world of chronic dieting.
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