I read a couple of stories from a Scientific American series [Via MindHacks] about scientists who experiment on themselves. An interesting read, even if they are biased in the outcome. The self experimentation ties in nicely with a television program that Esther and I have been watching, I Can Make You Thin. When it was first advertised, I thought it was a load of hooey. “I can make you thin, through the TV.” Watch this promo, it really made me think, “this guy is selling snake oil.” Esther and I have been on a few diets in our time and I am currently trying to lose weight in order make running a marathon easier. I have been juggling ideas including some rather restrictive ketogenic diets or Weight Watchers. But I think I have found the diet I want to experiment with in “I Can Make You Thin.” Reading about mindfulness and dieting on 43folders in combination with the I Can Make You Thin show, I am conducing a self experiment. I will use the concepts that Paul McKenna is pitching for 3 months and see how my weight loss as been. 3 months of eating when I want, eating what I want, eating consciously and stopping when I’m full. I will report back every month with my weight loss and hopefully I will drop the weight that I have been lugging around. The other experiment I am going to start tonight is the use of Pzizz in getting to sleep quicker and falling into a deeper sleep stage faster than Esther and I have been. Pzizz uses the same Neuro Linguistic Programming techniques that Paul McKenna is using. I want to see if Esther and I are better able to get to sleep when the baby comes, so now that we are about 75 days away, it is prime time for us to start training our brains. The Pzizz / Sleep experiment will be more of a qualitative study as opposed to quantitative. It will be hard to get some numbers, the baby is going to change the hours and will make it difficult to empirically prove that Pzizz is helping. I will hopefully be able to claim that my sleep is better and that I am falling asleep quicker that pre-pzizz sleeping.