1. Mindful Eating...
Saving the World
from one
Food Coma
at a Time
Rachel Cassinat
SMS Intervention
NTR 598
September 25th
, 2013

2. 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

3. Results and Enlightening Findings
• Control
– Basic text replies
• Treatment
– “Novels”
• Hunger scale vs. satisfaction scale
– Average hunger scale higher for treatment, but...

4. POST-Intervention
Behavior/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