The Leaning Caveman

If you're anything like me, you've probably made a resolution or two this new year even if you don't want to admit it to anyone else.  One of my resolutions is to finally hit my target weight and keep it there.  Of course when you make a resolution that involves dieting, sensory acuity kicks in and then suddenly you notice every since ad message that involves losing weight.  I swear that in the past two weeks I have literally seen 1,000 pieces of advertising between TV, Internet and print.

One of them that has really caught my attention though is the so-called sprinkle diet which is put out by this company called Sensa.  Apparently this neurologist has determined that if he can adequately manipulate your senses of taste and smell then you'll reach a point of satiety more quickly and lose weight.  To that end he has two powders (one for savory and one for sweet) that you sprinkle onto whatever it is that you going to eat.  No other change required.

In a double blind study with 2630 participants, the Sensa users lost an average of 30.6 pound in six months!  This compares to the placebo group that lost only 2 pounds.  I say that is impressive.  Which leads to our experiment; over the next 2 months I am going to try sprinkling, track it here and see what it does. Is it for real?  Is it a scam?  I have no idea but we're certainly going to find out.

Start day is tomorrow.