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When you're trying to lose weight, looking at before-and-after photos can be inspiring, but it's putting in the hard work accepting fitness as a long-term journey, clocking time at the gym, rejiggering your diet that is the most challenging. Dropping pounds is a multi-faceted beast and, while reading about others' success is motivating as hell, getting results for yourself can be tough. But a new study says it might be as simple as turning off the television.

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In fact, researchers say that eating anything mindfully defined as savoring your food away from all distractions is key to losing weight, The Guardian reports. That means you can eat all your favorite indulgent dishes, you just have to turn off Netflix, walk away from your desk, and pay very close attention to the bites you take.

The study was presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Porto, Portugal, where lead author Carolyn Dunn from North Carolina State University said, "We instruct people to eat the foods that they love, and not give them up, but to eat them in a mindful way. For example, if one of us was going to eat a food that has very high calories, we would tell them to eat one or two bites, but to eat those one or two bites with awareness, so they are getting the most pleasure out of those one to two bites."

What's even more riveting is that those first two bites are associated with the most enjoyment, which means eating more will give you more calories but not necessarily more delight to your taste buds.

Dunn also works on a commercial program based on these findings called Eat Smart, Move More, Weigh Less. Spanning 15 weeks, it monitored the results of 80 people who each lost an average of 4 pounds. But what's most intriguing is that six months later, about 75 percent of the participants did not regain the weight they lost; instead, some had lost even more. That's enough for us to give this a go and switch off our TVs at dinner time.

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