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Simple ways to help speed up weight loss process
HERALD DISPATCH.COM, July 10 2005 -- Here, surprising calorie-cutting
tricks that get results and keep boredom at bay, courtesy of FITNESS
Magazine.
Choose labor-intensive snacks.Your brain needs about 20
minutes to register fullness. Nuts that require cracking, grapefruit
that must be sectioned or edamame that need shelling all slow you down.
Pack in the produce. Instead of seeing your diet as a way
to limit your intake, think of it as an opportunity to eat more - veggies,
that is. At a waistline-friendly 40 calories per serving, you can’t
go wrong.
Have an appetizer. As long as your pre-meal pick is low-cal
and contains a lot of water (like soup) or fiber (like salad), it will
help you eat less overall. Just be careful. Cheese and high-fat dressings
will only set you back.
Go exotic once a week. People don’t usually overeat unfamiliar
foods. Instead, they deliberately taste them bite by bite. The slowed-down
experience reacquaints you with the pleasure of eating, which is important
when you’re consuming less.
Buy smaller dishes. Eating on downsized plates may help
you consume less, according to a pair of new studies. Researchers from
Cornell University served snack mix in two different-size bowls: a four-liter
bowl and a two-liter bowl. Study subjects took 53 percent more snack
mix from the larger bowl. In the second study, researchers at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign served juice in two different-size glasses:
short and wide and tall and skinny. While both glasses held the same
amount of juice, the subjects who drank from the skinny ones (which
looked larger) poured themselves less.
Make an accomplishment list at the end of each day. It’ll
help you track what is - and isn’t - working in your diet and acknowledge
each success, which will eventually lead to more.
Source: Gannett News Service, as provided by the editors
of Fitness magazine. Copyright 2005, Lisa Harris.
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