7 Surprising Insights That will Help You Lose Weight More Easily
Why cream cake helps to lose weight. And when to add salad dressings to the figure. Seven surprising insights that will help you lose weight more easily.
1. Optical illusion
Rather pizza than cake? Not always. With thin snacks like pizza or tarte flambée, we easily underestimate the portions. And overestimate them for more massive portions like cake. That takes its toll on the calories. For example, a piece of cream cake (120 g) “only” has 375 kilocalories, while half a pizza salami (180 grams) has a whopping 474 kilocalories. You can lose weight more easily with the cake in this case. Conclusion: Calorie mountains do not always grow to the sky.
2. Watch out for night owls
Anyone who spends the night will often find himself in front of the refrigerator afterwards, because lack of sleep increases appetite. If you then drag yourself through the day tired, you’ll be able to put another one on top: hardly moves at all and burns fewer calories than usual. Conclusion: people who have slept in have an easier time losing weight.
3. Height does good
Whether champagne or juice: we drink more from wide glasses than from tall, narrow ones. A study shows: We automatically pour less into tall glasses than into wide ones, even if the same amount fits into both. Conclusion: A good reason to dispose of grandma’s champagne bowls.
4. One to ten
Can’t stop with the bag of chips or the bar of chocolate until it’s all gone? Then you should mumble a mantra to yourself: “The tenth bite tastes no better than the first.” It’s also a good strategy for anyone who becomes bulk buyers at buffets and then gets annoyed about it. Take one or a maximum of two bites per dish, then you can relax and try the whole range. Conclusion: less allows more.
5. Imagination makes you feel full
We believe what we see. Study participants were shown either a large or a small portion of fruit that they would then be served as a smoothie. In truth, all participants only got a small portion. Those who believed they had the larger smoothie felt fuller. Conclusion: imagination can make you slim.
6. Mind games
You can’t stop at chocolate lentils? Imagine that you would eat 30 of them one after the other. Then take a packet and eat one lens after the other. You can bet that you’ll be satisfied with considerably less than 30. At least, that’s what the participants of the study at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania felt. Conclusion: Fantasy is nicer than food.
7. Green is the hope
If a fatty dish is garnished with salad leaves, the meal is estimated 43 calories less than without leaves. This was the case in a US study of particularly weight-conscious people. Conclusion: Do not be fooled by the decoration, the cutlet has a lot of fat – with or without salad garnish.