The color blue helping with weight loss?

00Angela00

I wasn't rude, I expressed my opinion...
Your 1st post insinuated that the color blue was the cure-all for weight loss.

I guess when I originally read it I thought of appetite suppressant as something that suppresses your appetite and not something that will eat the fat off your bones. my bad.

NOTE TO EVERYONE READING THIS POST. THE ORIGINAL POST IN NO WAY IS MEANT TO BE DONE ALONE. YOU ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO EAT WHOLE FOODS IN HEALTHY SERVINGS AND EXERCISE REGULARLY.

CrystalT

Your 1st post insinuated that the color blue was the cure-all for weight loss.

How did you get that from:

Bring the color blue into your life more often.

That is the only thing she actually wrote. The rest was a quote straight from the article.

00Angela00

that's what I'm confused about ... whatever ... and I thought this was a friendly sight?!

XFitMojoMom

"Believe it or not, the color blue functions as an appetite suppressant. So serve up dinner on blue plates, dress in blue while you eat, and cover your table with a blue tablecloth."

I dunno... is it just me?

CrystalT

"Believe it or not, the color blue functions as an appetite suppressant. So serve up dinner on blue plates, dress in blue while you eat, and cover your table with a blue tablecloth."

I dunno... is it just me?

Again, quote from the article. . .

LittleSpy

"Believe it or not, the color blue functions as an appetite suppressant. So serve up dinner on blue plates, dress in blue while you eat, and cover your table with a blue tablecloth."

I dunno... is it just me?

Well, it's not me.
What I took from the original post is that being surrounded by a certain color makes most people feel a certain way. As you said, blue is calming for you -- it's calming for a lot of folks. I didn't read the article because the effect of colors on myself is something about which I'm already aware, but I don't think it's a big leap to claim calm people are less likely to delve into an eating frenzy. So, it follows that surrounding yourself in blue and being calm when you eat may help suppress your appetite and/or senseless eating.

Edit: That is to say, I, in no way, felt the OP was suggesting that surrounding yourself in blue when you eat means you can eat gobs and gobs of whatever you want & not exercise. I suppose it's possible I'm giving other MFP users too much credit, but I tend to think most of them are a little too intelligent to make that astounding leap from the information provided in the post/article.

00Angela00

"Believe it or not, the color blue functions as an appetite suppressant. So serve up dinner on blue plates, dress in blue while you eat, and cover your table with a blue tablecloth."

I dunno... is it just me?

nope, don't see it. An appetite suppressant is something that causes you to eat less ... sooo ... which the color blue through research is proven to do ... so ... what's the problem? The article doesn't say that the color blue makes you crave healthy food, and makes you gaine muscle without any exercise. Didn't anyone get that impression besides mojogurl when reading this article?

dujennifer

Maybe I should go buy some sunglasses with blue lenses....then everything I eat would look blue....I will be a supermodel in no time...hehe.

charcharbec

I don't think this is meant to be an argument, honestly just from reading all the posts. Basically I will tell you what I read when I read the post. It was as follows--- Blue should be in more places because it will make people want to eat less or better put, suppress their appetite. There is nothing wrong with this post. However, what I think mojo's response was more of a reaction to, was the fact that many people try to blame their weight gain on eating too much, instead of WHAT they are eating and their lack of activity. That when you eat less you assume you will lose weight. But, I could eat a happy meal a day, and "eat less" and I am going to be far from losing weight.

SO I don't think it was the OP that mojo was responding to. Honestly I think she was responding to the loads of people who were like "OMGGGG that makes so much sense! I need to go out and buy blue plates right away!" and the one post that was like "I have portion control plates that are blue... does the color matter?"

She asked (her first post) "You guys really buy this?" or something of the sort--- she wasn't necessarily knocking the OP, but the fact that the way people were responding made her go "WTH?! It's not as easy as some pill...." And I can say from my own perspective that losing weight and exercising is a frustrating thing when the diet companies are selling quick fixes and I can't seem to lose a damn pound eating LESS and eating RIGHT and trying to stay ACTIVE!

Just my two cents.