Last nite at a restaurant in south Florida they had a special before 7PM...$2.95 dollar appetizers if you bought a drink...these appetizers were incredible...little steak sandwhiches, shrimp cocktail, flatbread pizza....all for a minimal amount of money.
I found myself ordering a bunch of appetizers...i wasnt really that hungry but i couldnt resist the "deal"...
Ah..human nature....most of us cannot pass up a deal when it comes to many things including food. If your meal comes with a free dessert, how many of us refuse the dessert even if we are not hungry. If we can upsize a popcorn for a measly 25 cents more, who does not do this?
Companies selling us foods are expert in knowing how to play this part of human nature...we are manipulated all of the time by our human nature desire to get a "deal". When it comes to longterm weight control it is important that we take a step back and evaluate how much of our food intake is based on hunger and how much is based on other factors...including the human nature aspects of our behavioral patterns.
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