Surprising Ways To Lose Weight
- Leave serving dishes on the stove instead of at the dining table and you will eat nearly 10 percent less. And pack snacks into single serving bags. Eating out of a large container ups consumption by 61 percent.
- Dieters who ate a large breakfast that included a sweet treat lost 37 pounds more over eight months than those on an equal calorie diet with a smaller, low carb breakfast.
- Clench your fists when you have a food craving. A series of studies published and found that people were better able to control their impulses when they tightened a muscle for at least 30 seconds.
- After a sweet treat, eat half a slice of deli turkey to keep you from wanting more.
- Change your goal from lose 20 pounds to lose 1 pound 20 times and give yourself credit for each one.
- Variety stokes your appetite. Limit the variety of treats you buy so you’ll eat less of them; and do the opposite with vegetables so you will eat more of them.
- Eat what your family eats, but put your serving on a kid size plate. 8. Have a bowl of vegetable soup before lunch; you’ll eat 20 percent fewer calories at the meal.
- Can not give up the bread basket? Use olive oil instead of butter: You will eat 23 percent less bread and 16 percent fewer calories.
- hink of an image of yourself fit. When a craving occurs, picture the image. With repetition, your brain will replace the craving with the image.
- Work out in the morning. researchers found that 45 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous exercise in the morning greduces your motivation for food.
- Eat at least 80 percent things that grow and no more than 20 percent things that walk.
