Really nice narrative review of the literature on restrained eating -
click hereThe section on implementation intentions (my area), the external environment and automatic processes, esp packaging cues is useful. The rest is mainly about where people go wrong. I'd suggest reading it all is likely to bore you into unrestrained eating, but using the headings, it is quite accessible. If you can be arsed to read it, I'd summarise it as "dieting doesn't work, make healthy eating your habit by planning your meals, not buying tempting stuff, and instead use low energy density food so weight control will be less effortful and less prone to lapses".<breathes out>
Why did I eat that? Perspectives on food decision making and dietary restraint
Melissa G. Bublitza, low asterisk, E-mail The Corresponding Author, Laura A. Peracchioa, E-mail The Corresponding Author and Lauren G. Blockb, E-mail The Corresponding Author
a Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, PO Box 742, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
b Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, Marketing Department, B12-240, New York, NY 10010, USA
Received 25 June 2010;
accepted 28 June 2010.
Available online 31 July 2010.
Abstract
Consumers trying to watch or restrict what they eat face a battle each day as they attempt to navigate the food-rich environments in which they live. Due to the complexity of food decision making, consumers are susceptible to a wide range of social, cognitive, affective, and environmental forces determined to interrupt their intentions to restrict their dietary intake. In this article, we integrate literature from diverse theoretical perspectives into a conceptual framework designed to offer a better understanding of the antecedents, interruptions, and consequences of dietary restraint. We outline a path for researchers to investigate how restraint behaviors in the eating domain influence a wide variety of consumer psychological phenomena. It is our hope that a collective examination of this literature provides a lens that directs future research on food decision making and dietary restraint and empowers consumers to invest their cognitive and behavioral resources towards healthy eating behaviors.
Keywords: Dietary restraint; Dieting; Eating behavior; Food consumption; Food
