Jacob Sager Weinstein

It's a weird quirk of human nature that when you're full, it's surprisingly hard to predict how you'll behave when you're hungry.

And that seems to be true of all emotions.

If you're calm, it's harder to predict how you'll be when you're angry.

Believe it or not, they've actually done a study where they had people study things underwater while scuba diving.

And they found they could remember them better when they went scuba diving again than they could on dry land.

There's just something about our brains that has a hard time picturing ourselves and how we'll react in other circumstances.

So where that comes into health and healthy eating is if you're at the grocery store and you're feeling full, you're going there after lunch,

and you see a big bag of candy, you think about, well, you think about how you feel in that moment.

And because you're full, you can resist that big bag of candy.

So you think, I'll forget home.

I'll have one piece every day.

It'll be fine.

Then the next day, when you're actually hungry, you eat fistfuls of it.

And you think, why didn't I know I was going to do this?

Why did yesterday me do this to me?

And it's because yesterday me was in a different state of mind.

And to some degree, that's inevitable.

It's just part of human nature.

But there are some things you can do to get around it.

If you have plans for what you're going to buy, try making those plans when you're hungry and seeing how you feel, seeing what you think you're going to do.