Brush Your Teeth Early to Lose Weight #31
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Here’s another of my Top 100 Weight Loss Tips for the series as article number 31. Please note that this is an original article written for weightlossgo.com and as such is copyright protected. If it appears on any other website, it has been illegally copied. In this article, here’s a really useful tip for stopping yourself snacking late at night when you’re trying to lose weight.
Brush your teeth early, don’t just wait until you are ready to go to bed! If you want to know why you should do that, read on…
Why You Should Brush Your Teeth Early to Lose Weight?
This is not some kind of trick, by the way but a psychological technique that you can successfully use on yourself to help you lose weight by preventing yourself from eating late at night. It is simple and effective, whether you believe it or not, just try it and see what happens. Here’s what you probably do now.
You’ll likely eat your last meal of the day in the early evening after you get home from work and then dump yourself down on the sofa to watch TV for the rest of the evening. Later on, you’re bound to get peckish, especially of you ate fairly early, say around 6:00 pm or thereabouts. So it could be after 10:00pm and you’re in the kitchen rummaging through the fridge or pantry for a snack and before you know it, you come away with a king sized sandwich filled with cheese or ham or something equally high calorie and high fat and some potato chips or tortilla chips or similar salty snack all to be washed down with some coke.
Oh boy, are you heading for an early heart attack and a visit to the obesity clinic!
To change that habit and stop gaining any more weight, do two things. The first is to eat your last meal of the evening a little later, say 7:00 or a little later. Then there is one other really simple thing you can do and that is to go and brush your teeth at 9:30 or 10:00pm. Then go back to watching the TV if you must. You’ll then go to bed without feeling the need to go raid the pantry.
Why?
What happens there is you have created a psychological barrier to eating any more food for the day. That’s because you habitually brush your teeth as the last thing before going to bed and you wouldn’t dream of eating anything after doing that because its generally so late. But by bringing that time forward and brushing at say 9:30-10:00pm you are telling your subconscious that you have finished eating for the day by the very act of brushing your teeth. Try it, it actually works!
100 Weight Loss Tips number 30 follows in the next post!
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