Snap yourself slim: photo your food to lose weight

The latest fad in dietland is to take pictures of your meals. Apparently this makes slimmers more aware of what they’re eating and more inclined to be strict.

Has it really come to this? Crumbs, keeping a food journal seems like enough of a faff but setting up some kind of buffet slash dark room just seems an iced bun too far.

But neverless research has been done – who funds this stuff?! – and the respective US boffins have chewed the data over and found that, yes, having pictorial evidence creates a permanent guilt trip about the quality and quantity of their daily diet. Who said slimming wasn’t fun, eh?

The ‘data’ was pretty pants though, it has to be said. Only 43 dieters had to record what they ate over the course of a week – in words, then the same the next week – in photos. According to New Scientist the photos were a crashing success.

A volunteer told the researchers:

“I had to think more carefully about what I was going to eat because I had to take a picture of it.

“I was less likely to have a jumbo bag of M&Ms. It curbed my choices. It didn’t alter them completely but who wants to take a photo of a jumbo bag of M&Ms?’”

Who wants to eat a jumbo bag of M&Ms? Moderation, my dear Watson, moderation.

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