Do you ever crave a chocolate bar and then resign yourself to only dream about it, knowing that if you act upon your desires it will just add extra calories to your already holiday-cookie saturated diet?

If you are like me (and answered YES, YES, YES!) then there may be some good news in your future.  Close your eyes and imagine that you are eating that chocolate bar, and you will devour less of it!

There is a new study released from Carnegie Mellon University that suggests thinking about forbidden food could make you eat smaller portions of it.  Forming a mental picture before we eat causes us to reduce the amount we would eat of that particular food later.
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