Tip #1: NEVER, ever go food shopping hungry

This is oneof the most effective strategies I know of to avoid unwanted junk and various snacks from finding their way into your shopping cart; which end up in your home, which end up on your butt.

Tip #2: NEVER keep snack foods in the house.

This tip is the logical extension of Tip #1. If it does not make it into your cart at the food store, it's not in your house. However, many people use excuses like " I have snack foods for the kids" or "my spouse keeps a box of Oreo cookies in the kitchen cupboard" as reasons that they can't avoid the snacks that sneak into their diets and sabotage their efforts.

Tip #3: Eat off of smaller plates

how much we eat is based on many variables. One of them is the visual cues we get from looking at the food we are about to eat. We are extremely visually-oriented creatures and we often decide how large an object is by comparing it to other objects. Thus, the amount of food we put on a plate is compared to the size pf the plate we put food on.