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How to Lose Weight with Five Secret Tips. It's easier to shed extra pounds if you know
a few tricks. You will need A blue light bulb Low-cal starters Limited food choices at meals
and smaller plates and bowls. Step 1. Change the light bulb in your refrigerator to a blue
one. It will make everything in the fridge look unappetizing, because we unconsciously
associate blue with moldy food. Yellow, red, and orange stimulate the appetite. Step 2.
Eat an apple, a small, low-cal salad, or a cup of soup before lunch and dinner, especially
if you're having a fattening entree. Studies show you'll consume fewer total calories because
you'll be less hungry for the main meal. Step 3. Limit the number of different tastes at
each meal. Research has shown that if we are experiencing just one taste, like a casserole,
we'll stop eating when they're full. But if we allow our taste buds to jump around from
sweet, to salty, to savory, and back again, we tend to eat past the point of fullness.
Variety is a main reason we eat an extra 1,500 to 5,000 calories at Thanksgiving dinner alone.
Step 4. Cut down on added sugar – sugar that doesn't occur naturally in food. The
average American consumes 30 teaspoons – 450 calories – of added sugar per day; think
about that before you pour sugar into beverages and onto foods. And avoid foods that list
sugar as one of the first three ingredients, or that contain several types of sugar. Fructose,
corn syrup, fruit-juice concentrate, malt syrup, sucrose, molasses, dextrose, and glucose
are all sugars. Step 5. Eat off smaller plates. Studies show you'll eat fewer calories without
even missing them. Did you know Sugar-free gum isn't calorie-free: One stick has 5 to
10 calories.