Food Temptations Maybe a Good Thing

Dieters are told time and time again to banish tempting foods from their surroundings. But a study suggests that keeping some sweet treats around could be a good way to build will power.

Researchers found women showed greater self-control when they had previously been confronted with sweet treats that they had access to – rather than just a picture of smells.

The study implicated that challenging oneself to resist temptation maybe more effective than banning all sweets and snack foods from ones house. Tempting foods can actually increase willpower, keep the food threat around — the idea is that tempting foods trigger a person’s "self-control strategies."

A conclusion: trying to remove all tempting foods from your daily life may not be the best weight-loss solution. Self-control can be trained!

In fact; if you avoid food temptations by banning them, you will never or rarely experience self-control conflict. This means that when food temptations arise, as they will, dieters will not have the will power to resist.