The 5-Minute Trick to Stop Binge Eating Cookies
00:00:00.000 | My wife, Amy, loves to bake.
00:00:01.220 | Sometimes there's banana bread.
00:00:02.800 | Sometimes there's cookies and all kinds of stuff.
00:00:04.560 | And I don't have a lot of self-control.
00:00:06.500 | And so instead of saying no, which just doesn't work for me that well, I say yes in five minutes.
00:00:12.120 | I find that if there's three dozen cookies sitting on the counter and I say, hey, I can have one of these.
00:00:16.380 | I just have to wait five minutes.
00:00:17.560 | In that five-minute period, I've moved on.
00:00:20.400 | I've gone to do something.
00:00:21.620 | And I've completely forgotten about the cookie.
00:00:23.220 | Now, maybe I come back.
00:00:24.880 | Maybe I repeat the thing.
00:00:26.000 | Maybe I reward myself with a cookie.
00:00:27.640 | But it's such a benefit to me and has prevented me from binge eating a lot of cookies, which is something that I often have found myself doing in the past.