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Easy Ways You Can Lose Weight

By Robert | December 31, 2009

Being overweight can lead to diabetes, stroke, heart disease and high blood pressure. It’s riskier and more dangerous if you need a surgical procedure done when you’re overweight.To lose weight successfully, everyone should know that you need to burn more calories than your body intakes. Most weight loss programs today try to promise you the world if you buy their program.  Here are some simple ways to lose weight that can be incorporated easily into your everyday life.

1. Wear blue. The color blue is an appetite suppressant. Most fast food chain restaurants refrain from using the color blue in their interior because it suppresses appetites. Try serving your meals on blue dishes, while eating, wear blue and use a blue tablecloth. Avoiding the colors red, orange or yellow can help you lose weight because those colors encourage appetites. This is a good way to lose weight without a diet.

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Think you are taking in more calories than you really are by adding 10% to your diet,adapt the way you eat to fit your new calorie intake goal. Your new number to your calorie intake is more likely accurate if you add 10% on top of that, for example your daily intake is 1,500 and you add 150 more calories to what your eating. 

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Monitor what you eat on weekends. A study from the University of North Carolina found that people consume an extra 300 calories on weekends, due to alcohol and fat. People take in more calories during the weekend, about 500 more, from a study at the University of North Carolina. Remember, they’re other ways to take in calories other than eating them.   You can drink calories too.

4. After every meal, brush your teeth. Having that clean, minty fresh breath you get after brushing your teeth, will trick your brain and body that your done eating. You can trick you brain and body that your done eating by brushing your teeth after every meal. Very similar to how your brain processes brushing your teeth before bedtime, if you don’t want that taste of toothpaste with food, you don’t eat after you brush your teeth.

5. Having a good make out session can help you lose weight. A study from the Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex confirms that by kissing passionately, you can lose up to 6.4 calories per minute. Having a 10 minute passionate make out session can burn 23,000 calories per year!

6. Eat only when you hear your stomach is growling
. Tons of people eat due to boredom, nervousness, frustrations or even out of habit. Before you eat, make sure your stomach is growling. It most likely cravings instead of hunger if there is something specific you want to eat.

7. Eat restaurant style
. Eating restaurant style (one plate with food) instead of family style (large platters in the middle of the table) can help monitor the amount of calories you take in because when your done you are done, no second helpings.You can’t have seconds when you’ve cleared everything on your plate.

8.Go on walks before your meals. Walking can help burn more calories and suppress your appetite. This is a great secret to losing weight.

9. Introduce nuts into your diet instead of a snack loaded with sugar. Even though they are high in calories, they can help you lose weight. Nuts are also very filling and satisfying.

10. Eat in front of a mirror
. There was a study that was done that told us that people ate 1/3 less of their meal when a mirror was put in front of them.By watching yourself in the mirror while you eat can remind you why are doing this.

You can increase the amount of weight you want to lose in your weight loss program if you follow these easy steps.

Follow these ten easy ways to lose weight and you’ll be boosting the effectiveness of any weight loss program that you might be doing.

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