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Lose Weight Without Dieting

It's possible to drop pounds without deciding to cut out everything you like, you just have to follow some of these tricks.


Time Your Meals
Set a timer for 20  minutes and reinvent yourself as a slow eater.  Savoring and pacing your meal allows for a more mindful meal, often with smaller portions because you're triggering the body's fullness hormones.  Wolfing your food down blocks those signals and causes overeating.

Serve More Vegetables
This isn't about taking something out of your diet, it's about adding something.  Instead of just one vegetable tonight, serve 3.  This trick allows you to eat more while you're losing weight.  The high fiber and water content fills you up with fewer calories.

Eat Broth Based Soup
Adding minestrone, tortilla soup, or Chinese won-ton soup will fill you up with fewer calories, plus it's a fast way to get a hot meal.  Soup is also a great way to curb your appetite at the beginning of a meal because it slows your eating down.  Start with low sodium broth or canned soup and add frozen or fresh vegetables and simmer.  Stay away from high calorie creamy soups.

Say No to Bacon
Passing on those 2 strips at breakfast or on a lunch sandwich can save you 100 calories, or 10 pounds a year.  Replace it with tomato slices, banana peppers, roasted red bell peppers, grainy mustard or light herbed goat cheese to get a little crunch, smokiness and salt.

Use A Tall, Thin Glass
Drink out of a tall, thin glass instead of a short, wide tumbler to cut liquid calories and your weight without dieting.  You'll drink 25-30% less juice, soda,  wine or any other beverage.  The visual cues trick us into consuming less.

Eat At Home
Eat home-cooked meals at least five days a week to live like a thin person. 

Chew Strong Mint Gum
Chewing sugarless gum with a strong flavor can prevent the risk of a snack attack.  This can also help you drop the mindless snacking in front of the tv or surfing the internet.  Gum with big flavor overpowers other foods so they don't taste as good.

Source: www.webmd.com