Jack dances with Joan on her wedding day, 1958

• take vitamins! you might be eating more because your body is craving nutrients. vitamins would help curb that subconscious reason for eating!
• sit at the end of the table at restaurants. bread baskets / chips / etc. are normally put in the center! if you’re further away, you’ll eat less.
• sleep in a super dark room! in studies, mice who slept in darker environments / had less unusually timed light exposure weighed less
• watch less tv / spend less time online. you’ll find other things to occupy your time, which will likely involve movement in some way!
• eat off of smaller plates! your brain thinks you’re eating more because so much of the plate is taken up
• eat spicy foods! you’ll eat less, and it’s a metabolism booster
• eat bread last! you’ll consume less carbs, because you’ll already have such a full tummy by the time you get there
• sleep in a cold room! your body will have to eat up more calories while it tries to keep itself warm
• only eat candy that you have to unwrap individually! so no skittles or m&ms. studies show you eat 40% less if you have to stop for unwrapping between each piece.
• burn a vanilla-scented candle or wear vanilla-scented lotion during meals! the scent helps to curb the appetite- in one study, people who wore the scent lost an average of 4 and a half pounds!
• surround yourself with the color blue! in studies, people eat 33% less while in a blue room than one with warmer colors
• if you’re eating out, pay with cash! paying with physical money makes you more conscious of how much you’re paying, and therefore, how much you’re eating
• eat with someone! (unless they’re a chronic over-eater.) when you’re alone, one study reports that you tend to eat up to three times more!
• take pictures of EVERYTHING you eat. you’ll have to stop to think about what you’re eating, and seeing just how much you’re consuming over time will encourage you to skip the extra candy bar. bonus: POST pictures of everything you eat. knowing other people see what you consume will provide psychological motivation for eating healthier / eating less.
• sniff food every chance you get! it tricks your brain into thinking you’ve eaten already- this has encouraged up to 33 pounds of weight loss in studies