{"id":3282,"date":"2012-05-23T23:47:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T03:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2012-05-23T23:49:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T03:49:59","slug":"the-500-calorie-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=3282","title":{"rendered":"The 500 calorie meal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHANGING YOUR WEIGHT BY CHANGING THE ENVIRONMENT<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/week_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3361\" title=\"week_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/week_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of Decision Science News&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/2012\/02\/22\/rules-of-thumb-for-losing-weight\/\">rules of thumb for losing weight<\/a> was never eat more than 500 calories at at time.<\/p>\n<p>In Japan(*), they have institutionalized this at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tanita.co.jp\/company\/shokudo\/index.php\">Tanita Shokudo<\/a> restaurant, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantrends.com\/new-dining-concept-serves-advice-and-food\/\">serves a daily 500 calorie meal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We at DSN believe this will work, as we&#8217;ve seen our own weights decrease after moving to small-portion-size countries and increase after moving back to the States. We admit to following a simple\u00a0 heuristic of &#8220;eat what you get till it&#8217;s gone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(*) BTW, we&#8217;ve noticed that people pay more attention when you preface things with &#8220;In Japan, &#8230;&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Decision Science News&#8217; rules of thumb for losing weight was never eat more than 500 calories at at time.<\/p>\n<p>In Japan (*), they have institutionalized this at the Tanita Shokudo restaurant, which serves a daily 500 calorie meal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16],"tags":[379,159,326,217,377,29,378],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","tag-379","tag-behavioral-economics","tag-calories","tag-diet","tag-eating","tag-nudges","tag-weight-loss"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-QW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3369,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}