Mavis’s Reviews > Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think > Status Update

Drinking glass illusions. “Big packages have plenty of kitchen accomplices. It’s been estimated that 72 percent of our calories come from food that we eat from bowls, plates, and glasses.6 These containers can create persuasive visual illusions that cause us to misjudge the amount of food they contain”

“In fact, with the 47 products we’ve examined, the bigger the package, the more they use.”

See it while you eat it. When you’re eating chicken wings or ribs, you’ll eat less if you see what you’ve already eaten. The same is true with beverages—it’s easy to forget how much soda you’ve had if there’s nothing to remind you. One way is to count beverage empties.

Our stomach can't count and we don't remember. Unless we can actually see what we're eating, we can very easily overeat.