Mindless Eating — with Brian Wansink

Why do most diets fail?

People get excited to eat healthy — maybe trying Paleo or Keto for the first time — and feel great for a few weeks…

But a couple months later, they’re right back where they started:

• That small “cheat meal” turns into weeks of bad eating
• All the weight someone loses goes right back on
• They jump to another “yo-yo diet” months later… and the same thing happens again

Today, I invited Brian Wansink to talk about why most diets fail — and how you can actually eat healthier for life.

Brian is the author of one of my favorite diet books called Mindless Eating, and in today’s podcast episode you’ll learn:

1. How to trick your body and mind into losing weight WITHOUT changing how you eat
2. Tips to handle critics and haters
3. Why colors — yes, colors — influence how much you eat

Things we talk about in this episode:

• Package size study: Brian did a study to see if smaller package sizes help consumers eat less. This started the “100 calories” package revolution
• Slim by Design: Brian’s latest book. Learn how to create the perfect environment for healthy eating with minimal effort
• The Syracuse Study: A study Brian did to learn the habits skinny people do to stay skinny
• Bulletproof Coffee: The thing where you put butter in your coffee
• Predictably Irrational: Another book about psychology and people behavior I really enjoy