Often we eat what first catches the eye. If opening the refrigerator, you gaze rest against a bottle of "mineral water" or dish with vegetables, you are bound to give them preference. Remove from the table the usual temptations: biscuits, candies, pastries, and a place of honor hoisted dish with carrots and celery. In the refrigerator at eye level put mineral water and low-fat yogurt.
2. At work, do not dissemble!
If your desktop in the office in front of you is a vase with candy for customers, let it be opaque. Scientists have conducted an interesting experiment: the secretary, in the field of view is constantly "looming" glass candy, eat three times more sweets than those who sit next to porcelain vessels. During the year a clear vase adds a couple of extra pounds.
3. Convenience - key consumption.
More convenient than food, the more likely it stretch. Imagine the shape and size of chips, candy and candied nuts chosen not by accident - these are small pieces of themselves to "ask" in the mouth. Therefore, when you upload a prominent place carrots, cucumbers and celery, pre-wash them and cut into small pieces cute - so you eat more.
4. Do not remove the "evidence."
As learned professor, people tend to overeat when you do not see much eaten. So, at the next experiment "experimental" ate a lot more chicken wings when the bones of them immediately removed. And those who they were before my eyes involuntarily fixed many added calories. Another name for this psychological trick - "phenomenon bottomless plates": a bowl of soup, which is kept secret from consumers again and again through a tube filled with a tablecloth, the subjects ate a lot more than the usual dish.
5. Trust your eyes, not your stomach.
Since the stomach is "lying" about the number of calories consumed, is to trust their own eyes. What looks more solid portion, the faster you will be filled. Therefore, the liquid food is so useful: a liquid which it contains, not only gives the appearance of "bulk food", but also gives a signal saturation at the moment when a person is really hungry.