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The Week Your New Year’s Resolution to Exercise Dies
The Wall Street Journal: People with the noble New Year’s resolution to work out or work out more should mark their calendars: That resolve starts to waver in the third week in January, data shows.
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Feeling Fat Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
New York Magazine: Self-perception can sometimes work as a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy, according to an upcoming paper in Psychological Science: Namely, believing that you are fat may result in actually becoming fat. Sixteen-year-olds who were at
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Seeing Themselves as Overweight May Be Self-Fulfilling Prophecy for Some Teens
Teens who mistakenly perceive themselves as overweight are actually at greater risk of obesity as adults, according to research.
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Is Obesity a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
The Huffington Post: There are lots of people of normal, healthy weight who, when they look in the mirror, see a fat person. Many of them know that their perceptions are skewed, because trusted friends
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People Who Weigh Themselves More Lose More Weight
New York Magazine: Within the general category “trying to lose weight,” there is a huge range of behaviors. Some people take this quest very seriously, diligently tracking seemingly every category down to the bite. Others
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Me Versus the Scale
The New York Times: The scale and I have reached détente. That is: I leave it alone, and it affords me the same courtesy. I rarely step on it, and we’re both better off. I
