5 Effective Ways to Control Hunger

If you are on a diet, you need to lower your calorie intake. Sometimes people start craving for food and then the diet fails, and you end up gaining even more weight than you ever have gained before! There are a number of ways to control hunger and food cravings, and the best ones are listed below.

1. Eating fruit helps stop cravings.

Its true that eating apple or citrus fruits help stop cravings for junk food. Two 23-calorie Clementines will keep you just as full as a 200-calorie Toaster Strudel. Eating fruit will keep you from pigging out on chips or cookies, and you will love the results afterward!

2. Drink a lot of water with meals.

Drinking water with meals helps suppress the appetite and will keep you stuffed for hours on end. If you have a 400-calorie meal and 3 glasses of ice-cold water, you aren't going to need any more food for a while. Even if you still end up craving for a Twinkie or some nachos, just eat some fruit. It will make you happier to know that you can control what you eat. Once in a while, you could drink some fat-free milk. Calcium speeds up weight loss remarkably.

3. Occupy yourself with something.

If you are chatting on the phone, or playing a video game, you are not thinking about hunger at all. After a small meal, do something you enjoy. Or you could work out in the yard or anywhere else. Being occupied with anything that's time-consuming helps you control hunger.

4. Eat Bread or Crackers.

Bread, which is usually around 70 calories a slice, is a great food to suppress hunger. When eaten, the bread absorbs liquid and sits in your stomach like a sponge. This will help stop cravings for a few hours. So after a sandwich, drink a lot of water with it. The hunger will be gone before you know it. Crackers work just like bread too. They take in a lot of the liquid you drink and expand, which fills your stomach up.

5. Run or walk 30 minutes after eating.

Running and walking are great activities to not think about hunger. When your running, jogging, or walking, you have no kitchen near you, which doesn't allow you to go on a binge. Also, when you're walking, your mind will usually drift off and think about something completely different. Also, you're burning hundreds of calories, so you can always reward yourself with a little treat, but make it under 100 calories!

7 Easy Ways to Attract & Charm a Man

Trying to attract a guy isn't always easy (as we all know!), but it's also not as impossible as it feels sometimes. There are plenty of ways to attract an awesome guy without using your body, but by using your personality instead.

Personality is one of the first things people notice about you and one of the most important parts of a compatible relationship. There are lots of ways to use your wit, personality, and charm to attract a good guy.

Here are some ways.

1.      Stand tall and proud.

Self confidence is one of the biggest turn-ons out there -- for men and women alike. So, ladies, be confident, be strong, be powerful and proud of who you are. That's bound to turn more than a few heads.

2.      Think positively.

 There's very little that's attractive about someone who is always a Debbie Downer -- as a friend or as a partner. Guys really dig girls who are positive and upbeat, so exude that positive vibration whenever you can!

3.      Use your eyes.

 Eye contact is a key. Make sure that when you're talking to a guy you dig, use those eyes. They're the windows to the soul, after all.

4.      Smile -- but mean it.

 It's such an obvious thing to do -- smile -- but it's so important. Acting aloof or bitchy isn't any way to attract a man. So strap on that smile to increase your positivity vibe!

5.      Go out in groups of women,

But no more than three, big groups of women can be very hard to approach. Three is a great number because when the guy who's digging on you walks up, your friends can keep his friends company.

6.      Dress like you care. 

No, not all slutty or anything, but dress nicely, like you genuinely care about what you look like. This doesn't mean you need to look like you stepped off a runway (unless, of course, you just did), but just that you care about your appearance.

7.      Use your wits.

 It's time to be charming, sarcastic and snarky without being a bitch. Guys love a funny girl, and if you've got that special snarck, well, they'll fall all over you.