The Best Tips On Earth: Weight Loss

Avoid White Foods

Cut white foods such as salt, sugar, ice cream, and flour from your diet for a simple way to lose weight. 

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Control Your Appetite

Fifteen to 20 minutes before dinner, soak up 2 teaspoons of olive oil with half a slice of bread (80 calories). Olive oil stimulates the release of cholecystokinin, a gut hormone that signals the brain to stop eating. 

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Cook with Cottage Cheese

Use small-curd, low-fat cottage cheese instead of high-fat ricotta in lasagna, manicotti, and other Italian dishes. 

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Don't Order Chiles Rellenos

That's Spanish for "fat bomb." They're stuffed with cheese and fried in egg batter. A typical two-pepper serving can have up to 800 calories and 46 grams of fat.

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Eat More Melon

Cantaloupe and honeydew provide slow-digesting carbs that help assuage the craving for bread. 

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Eat Red Meat

The more protein, the better. Protein is crucial to weight loss because it takes a longer time to digest, leaving you feeling full, longer. It’s also packed with testosterone, and more testosterone means more muscle, so you’ll burn more fat even when you’re not working out. 

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Feel the Burn

Eating spicy foods will make you eat more slowly, fill you up more quickly, and slightly increase your metabolism, so you burn more calories

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Get Some—But Not Too Much—Sleep

Sleep for 8 hours. Sleeping only 5 or 6 hours makes you 69 percent more likely to gain weight; sleeping 9 to 10 increases your risk by 38 percent.

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Never Eat Coconut

It's about 76 percent saturated fat. 

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Order a Protein Appetizer

A cup of black bean soup or a few pieces of prosciutto-wrapped melon will sharply cut your appetite. 

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Shop After Dinner

Always shop on a full stomach. Then your good sense won't have to fight bad advice from hungry taste buds.

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Stop for an Egg McMuffin

You can eat two Egg McMuffins from McDonald's for fewer calories and fat than a bagel with two tablespoons of cream cheese.

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Turn Off the Tube

University of Massachusetts researchers found that people who watched TV during a meal consumed 288 more calories on average than those who didn't.

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Use Smaller Plates

Perception is huge in weight loss: Eating off smaller plates makes portions look larger and more satisfying—researchers found swapping 12-inch plates for 10-inchers resulted in dieters eating 22 percent fewer calories. 

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