An experiment was conducted on hospital patients who remained ambulatory but in the hospital for long stays. The staff secretly removed the waist string on the hospital pants of half the patients, chosen at random. Those without the string gained 5 pounds more than those with the string.
Lesson? Don’t upsize your clothes. Say to yourself, “This size and no further.”
In the long run, would tying a string around your waist really make your day lighter?
Ideas to eat less – to live life more.
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