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These Easy Weight Loss Tricks Are So Simple You Can Incorporate Them Into Any Part of Your Lifestyle

Weight loss tricks are perhaps one of the most popular searches on the internet. Adopting a healthy lifestyle, eating in moderate portions, or working out every day needs a lot of discipline and self-control, and let’s face it, not all of us have that kind of willpower in our lives. We all want shortcuts in our lives, but when it comes to our health, there are no shortcuts. To make your life a bit easier, we have found these weird tricks and tips that might make your weight loss journey a bit bearable. Here are some easy ones you can try and see if it works!

Drink Water Before Meals

This is probably the easiest, most effective trick that can help you cut down your food intake. Often, we eat more than our body requires. Having water just before any meal will make your stomach fuller, and you will end up eating less automatically. Research has shown that having 16 oz of water just before a meal also boosts up our metabolism by 30% within 10 minutes. And it could reach its peak in 30 to 40 minutes. Well, more reasons for drinking water and keeping your body hydrated, we guess!

Sniff Certain Foods

It might sound like some weird and bizarre trick that can never work, and while we agree that this seems highly unusual, it does work. It has been proven through research that sniffing on fruits like bananas and apples or herbs like peppermint can help you combat hunger pangs. People who followed this trick lost close to an average of 30 pounds. So how does it work? One theory says that sniffing the food tricks your brain into believing that you are actually having it. Hence, you don’t feel hungry anymore!

Hang A Mirror Opposite Your Seat While Eating

This is a totally psychological trick that truly works according to scientists. If you hang a mirror on the opposite wall to your seat, you will be looking at your own reflection a few times while eating. When you do that, you will remember the goals that you had set regarding your diet or your determination to lose weight. This might help you eat within limits or control your portions.

 Use Blue Plates For Eating

This is another unbelievable trick that actually works. Surrounding yourself with the color blue can work toward suppressing your appetite. Probably that is the reason you will never find a fast-food restaurant with blue interiors. It is believed by scientists that since blue is a color that we don’t get to see much in our food and drinks, it sort of helps in tricking us into eating less or losing our appetite.

Let The Evidence Speak For Itself

When having junk food, we often lose track of the portion. But by using the visual portion tracker trick, you can limit your intake and still be good on following your diet plan. A study by the scientists at Cornell University showed that students whose tables were not cleared and had remnants from their meal ate less than those whose tables were cleared. The reason behind this is that looking at the bones from chicken wings, seeds of olives, or shells of shrimp signals our brain that our meal is done!

Eat A Healthy And Heavy Breakfast

It goes without saying that the first meal of the day is the most important one. Make this one meal the heaviest of the day and also ensure that it is healthy. It has been proved again and again that a heavy breakfast helps cut down carb or fat cravings later in the day. If you want to cut the calories throughout the day, have a high-protein breakfast. Sugary drinks and processed fruit juices are not recommended at all for breakfast. In an experiment, a group of women ate 700 calories during breakfast, 500 during lunch, and 200 during dinner. Another group of women did the reverse. After 13 months, the first group lost about 18 pounds!

The internet is full of various kinds of information. But don’t believe all of them unless they are supported by some kind of data or good logic. Food is not just something that we eat when we are hungry. We eat to comfort us when we are experiencing stress and depression, too. Find out if you are really hungry before you have your next meal! Whatever you do to lose weight, don’t make it a one-time thing; instead, make it your lifestyle choice because only then can you have a healthy and long life.

 

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