See what you're eating: eat from a bowl or plate instead of eating out of a bag or jar.
It's been a hard day at work; you stop by the grocery store and pick up a couple of snacks for later that night for when you are in front of the tv relaxing. They look like big packets of chips but you say to yourself, I will only eat a little bit.but then that little bit turns into a bit more...as you concentrate on the tv and not on what and how much you are eating. Before you know it, you dip your hand in and oh dear nothing left! Then you look at the packet and think "oh my god!! Did I eat that whole packet" as you start to panic and make a mental note to redeem yourself first thing by a trip to the gymSound familiar? Well hey we are only human, a simple tactic you can adopt is by placing your chips into a bowl or scatter them on a plate so you can see how much you are eating, which makes it easier to stop.
You can save yourself lots of calories and equally important the negative feelings such as guilt and anger for being so naughty that often accompany binges like this. Place the rest in an air-tight container, in a cupboard and out of sight, and that way you won't be tempted to over-indulge, no matter how good the movie is trust us!!
Make blue your Favourite Colour : it's an appetite suppressant.
Colours really do control how we think and how we feel, but did you know that out of the whole colour spectrum, the one that does suppress the appetite is the colour blue? Blue is actually an appetite suppressant. So is it any wonder why the blue M&Ms were always left in the packet after all the other colours were eaten? Hmmm..
To try this for yourself, serve up your dinner on a blue plate and take particular notice to how you feel. Perhaps even place a blue table cloth on your table and have blue napkins on hand as well as replacing the bulb in your over head light to a blue one instead.all this aversion to blue particularly where food is concerned goes back to our ancestry, when we were hunters and gatherers and the notion back then was that if it was coloured blue, black or even purple it was considered to be highly poisonous and thus fatal if consumed. Food for thought?
