Mindful Eating...Saving the World

from oneFood Comaat a Time

Rachel CassinatSMS Intervention

NTR 598September 25th, 2013

Pre-Intervention Behavior

• PRE-Intervention Behavior– “How do you usually feel after a meal?”

• Make one meal a day a mindful one– Be self-aware of your hunger cues and fullness– SLOW DOWN– Enjoy your food

• Control vs. Treatment– Text message

Results and Enlightening Findings

• Control– Basic text replies

• Treatment– “Novels”

• Hunger scale vs. satisfaction scale– Average hunger scale higher for treatment, but...

POST-InterventionBehavior/Experience

• Final texts to control and treatment groups– Control vs. treatment– How to improve the intervention– Would a text help you keep doing the behavior, be

short lived, or not help at all?

• My experience