Thinking about sweets might actually help you eat less of them.
From Joe: Writing about Treats without Calories, Henry Alford asks us to imagine if imagining ourselves overeating some snacks can help us lose pounds:
I’m what any right-thinking nutritionist would call average size. But note that the number 165 is rendered in heterosexual pounds. In gay pounds, I’m Precious. So when I hit 170 this winter, I knew it was time to test-drive a Carnegie Mellon study I’d read about. Scientists there discovered that when you repeatedly imagine eating a certain food, your craving for that food (but not others) is reduced.