10 Ways to outwit your appetite.

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Healthy Lifestyle Tip: 10 Ways to Outwit Your Appetite. Follow these resourceful tips to keep your appetite under wraps:
• Feed it protein for breakfast. You'll be less hungry later on and average eating 267 fewer calories during the day.
• Make it climb a flight of stairs. At home, store the most tempting foods way out of reach.
• Sleep on it. People who don't get their 8 hours of ZZZ's experience hormonal fluctuations that increase appetite.
• Give it something else to think about. The brain reacts to fat in the mouth in much the same way that it responds to a pleasant aroma. So if you feel a craving coming on, apply your favorite scent.
• Never let it see a heaping plate. The more food that's in front of you, the more you'll eat. So at a restaurant, ask your waiter to pack up half of your meal before serving it to you, and then eat the extras for lunch the next day.
• Put it under the lights. You consume fewer calories at a well-lit restaurant table than you do dining in a dark corner.
• Talk it down. Entertaining friends with a great story doesn't give you much time to eat, so you'll probably still have food on your plate when they're finished. Once they've stopped eating you should call it quits, too.
• Offer it a seat. If you sit down to snack and use utensils and a plate, you'll eat fewer calories at subsequent meals.
• Satisfy it with soup. Start lunch with about 130 calories worth of vegetable soup, and you'll eat 20 percent fewer calories overall during lunch.
• Give it little choice. Packages that contain assorted varieties of cookies, candy, dips, cheese, etc., make you want to try all the favors.Source: realage.com