Psychological Diet Tips

Most people would say there are two parts to losing weight. One is diet and the other is exercise. In a big way this is true, but there is so much more you can do to help shed the fat faster and easier. Here are a few easy mental tricks about how to actually eat to make you feel fuller and eat less. These helped me successfully lose 30 pounds in just over a month!

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1: Focus on eating: Just like reading a book or watching TV while on an exercise bike, it seems to just go by without you noticing. If you eat while you watch TV, read a book, or do some other activity you won’t notice yourself get full and you will easily overeat AND be unsatisfied. Focus on your eating and you will start to notice when you are actually comfortably full instead of when you’re stuffed and getting sick.

2: Close your eyes: It sounds silly at first, but after taking a bite close your eyes while you chew. If you can, eat with your eyes closed the whole time. Most people who eat this way leave food left on the plate when they had only taken what they thought would make them full. You are more able to listen to your body give you signals saying you are full.

3: Put down that fork!: Most of us will just shovel bite after bite into our mouths and rush through food. Take your time! Don’t focus so much on finishing the meal, focus on eating it. Our sense of satiety (being satisfied instead of hungry) is relatively slow. It’s not just about your stomach being filled; to stop being hungry your food has to digest a little bit and get into your blood stream, and there are other factors as well. This means if you eat fast you will pass up your sense of hunger and satiety and will just over eat automatically.

4: Take a break: What I mean by this is halfway through eating your meal take five minutes to drink some water and let food settle. This lets your sense of satiety catch up to your eating and let you feel fuller before you eat too much.

5: Water before and after: Few people are aware that our sense of hunger and thirst are often confused. Many people who think that they are hungry are actually just thirsty. So when you’re hungry you should probably drink a bit of water first and wait before eating, but also having a glass of water before eating, and another during or after is a great way to be satisfied without actually eating more, because you don’t need to eat more!


I hope people find these simple tips useful. They don’t require buying any special food or pills, and you don’t have to go to the gym. It’s just eating in a different way and adding a few minutes to your eating times to focus on eating less.

With these simple steps and with the help of Fatloss4idiots I lost 30 pounds in just over a month! Check Here to see how Fatloss4idiots helped me lose so much fat!