| By Chris | | | | overweight. If you don't think you need to finish your |
| Reducing your caloric intake can be a major challenge | | | | meal, don't finish it. Just wrap it up and save it for |
| for most people. They envision it means a life of rice | | | | later, or if it's a particularly unhealthy food, it might |
| cakes and always suffering with a grumbling belly. But | | | | even be best to just throw it away entirely. Out of |
| that doesn't necessarily have to be true. You don't | | | | sight, out of mind. 4. Pay Close Attention to Your |
| need to turn your life upside down in order to start | | | | "Full" Cues A lot of people just eat not because they |
| eating less. In fact, through employing these small | | | | are still hungry, but because it's just "something to |
| adjustments to how you think about food, you might | | | | do." It should be a no brainier if you're trying to lose |
| not even notice the reduction at all. 1. Eat Slower | | | | weight: if you're not hungry, and it's not time for a |
| Some people are ravenous eaters. When they see | | | | scheduled meal, don't eat. But a lot of people just eat |
| food in front of them, they just wolf it down at a | | | | for entertainment. If that sounds like you, starting |
| 100 MPH. This might be the best way to overeat, | | | | paying closer attention to when you don't actually |
| though. When you are really forking the food down, | | | | need food, and find some other way to entertain |
| your internal cues that tell you that you are full have | | | | yourself. Read a book. Play your musical instrument. |
| trouble catching up. So you wind up with that | | | | Play video games. You might even get entertained |
| thanksgiving dinner bloated feeling and a ton of food | | | | and get exercise at the same time by going for a |
| that will inevitably be converted into fat. 2. Don't Eat | | | | hike. Just do what you can to keep yourself occupied |
| Your Whole Meal While Eating Out If you are out at | | | | so you don't eat "just because." 5. Avoid Alcohol at |
| a restaurant, don't think you have to finish | | | | Parties Alcohol doesn't just encourage your body to |
| everything you order. In fact, it might even help to | | | | store fat; it makes you make bad decisions. And at |
| request a doggy bag along with your meal. When | | | | parties, where booze and fatty foods often mix, |
| your order comes, you can just place half of it in the | | | | those bad decisions can often destroy your diet. Just |
| doggy bag. This tip can save you money as well. You | | | | lay off the hooch when you go out with friends, and |
| get two restaurant meals for the price of one. 3. | | | | you might embolden your willpower enough to say |
| Stop Thinking You Have to Clean your Plate The idea | | | | "no" when someone shoves a tray full of mini pizzas |
| that it is a cardinal sin to leave food on your plate | | | | in front of your face. |
| can be deep rooted for many people. It can bring | | | | Chris McCombs is a Tustin personal trainer in California |
| about memories of childhood lectures on starving kids | | | | with specialty in fat loss and muscle toning. His |
| in China and ingratitude. But this kind of thinking is | | | | website contains valuable tips on fitness and "how |
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