Here are 10 unique tips and tricks you don’t hear everyday about dieting and weight loss.

1. We’ve all heard to drink eight, 8oz. glasses of water a day. Did you know if you drink cold water, your body has to work to heat back up, speeding up your metabolism? So, not only does the water help you feel full and keep you hydrated, you can burn more calories by drinking it cold.

 

2. Brush your teeth as soon as you’re done with your portions. It’s a psychological thing. The mint reminds you food is done, teeth are clean, and it reduces the want to snack or go back for seconds.

 

3. Eating soup is a great weight loss trick. Since its liquid, if you eat it with a spoon, it takes a long time to eat. Your body will register you’re full quicker than it would with ,say, a couple of sandwiches, it’s less calories, and it’s filling. Be careful not to eat liquid and low sodium soups, as canned soups can have a lot of salt and cream soups are high in calories.

 

4.Use smaller dishes - Using a juice glass and a salad plate instead of a dinner plate and water glass can trick you into thinking you’ve ate a lot, and reducing portion size at the same time.
 

5. Fruits that contain ascorbic acid or Vitamin C has a fat burning quality. It reduces fats content and can dilute or liquefy fat making it easier to flush out of your body or burn off. It also works on chlesterol as well, making it hard to deposit in your blood vessels.

 

6. Soybeans contain lecithin, which will actually "shield" cells from accumulating fat. It also helps to break down fatty deposits.

 

7. Eating applesauce and apples will limit the amount of fat your body absorbs. It contains pectin, which limits the amount of fat your cells can bsorb.

 

8. Foods that are diuretics. Many weight loss medications use chemicals as a diuretic to make you lose water weight and flush out at unnaturally. There are foods that can be used as natural diuretics with out the chemical side effects.

 

“A diuretic is a medication or chemical that promotes the elimination of fluid in the body. This can lead to an accelerated metabolism that  seems to flush out the fatty deposits that may lodge themselves on cells. Diuretics break down fatty deposits into small chunks and make it easier for your body to flush these nasty little things out of your body.”

 

It’s recommended that you drink a LOT of water when using food as a diuretic to make sure you do not dehydrate and you flush your system out. Here is a list of foods that are natural diuretics

Asparagus
Beets
Brussels Sprouts
Cabbage
Carrots
Celery
Cucumber
Garlic
Horseradish
Lettuce
Onions
Radishes
Tomatoes
Apple Cider Vinegar

 

9. Cravings only last about 15 minutes. Distract yourself with a chore when you get a craving and wait  about ½ an hour, you’ll probably have forgotten all about it.

10. Eat negative calorie foods.

“All food has calories, that goes without say, so saying these foods are negative calorie sounds impossible, right? Well, these are foods that take up more caloric energy to digest then the calories that are in them. Your body has to expend energy in order to digest and absorb foods, in fact, 10% of your daily caloric intake is used to process foods in your body. So these "negative" calorie foods are foods that take more calories to digest then actual calories in the item of food.” Make sure to eat them raw with out any additions.

 

Here is a list: