10 Ways to Kiss.

1. The French Kiss
Probably the most famous kiss there is, the French kiss is an open-mouthed kiss where one person’s tongue touches the other person’s tongue. Also called a “tongue kiss,” the French kiss easy enough to execute, but it can take years to master.

2. The Butterfly Kiss
To give someone a butterfly kiss, get close to them so the tips of your eyelashes are touching theirs. Then blink very fast so your eyelashes flutter together like butterfly wings. It’s a fun, cute thing to do while you’re catching your breath from more traditional kisses. You can also give someone a solo butterfly kiss by fluttering your eyelids against their cheek.

3. The Single-Lip Kiss
To give someone a single-lip kiss, take one of their lips between yours and gently suck or tug on it. It’s an awfully romantic kiss, and if you do it right, you’ll send tingles up and down your sweetie’s spine.

4. The Spiderman Kiss
Based on the kiss in the 2002 movie Spider-Man, the Spiderman kiss involves kissing someone whose face is upside-down from yours, so your top lip kisses their bottom lip and vice versa.

5. The Earlobe Kiss
A great kiss to to perform while you’re taking a break from lip kisses, the earlobe kiss involves taking someone’s earlobe lightly between your lips and tugging gently downward. For a more intense earlobe kiss, add a little bit of tongue, or use a gentle sucking motion on their earlobe.

6. The Lip Gloss Kiss
This is a fun, flirty kiss for girlfriends to give their boyfriends. Put on a healthy amount of lip gloss or ChapStick, then rub your lips on your partners’ lips until theirs are coated, too. For extra fun, surprise your partner with a sweet, fruity lip gloss flavor.

7. The Eskimo Kiss
In an Eskimo kiss, two people rub their noses back and forth against each other. It’s based on real kisses that people in Eskimo cultures give their friends. Just like with lip kisses, Eskimo kisses are best executed with your eyes closed.

8. The Cheek Kiss
The cheek kiss is exactly what it sounds like – a closed-mouth kiss against someone’s cheek. Cheek kisses can be used as friendly greetings, flirty thank-you’s or cute, unexpected ways to say good-bye to your boyfriend or girlfriend.

9. The Hickey
A hickey technically isn’t a kiss; it’s a red mark (a bruise, really) left on the skin after someone sucks hard enough on it. Hickeys hurt a little to get, but some people think the sucking feels good, especially on the side of the neck. It can be embarrassing to walk around with a hickey, so before you start sucking, get permission first.

10. The Secret Message Kiss
In the middle of a French kiss, spell out a secret message with the tip of your tongue against their tongue. It might feel a little funny to the other person, but at least you’ll be getting your message across.

10 Ways to Annoy Your Teacher.

1. Wear glasses with eyes painted on them, and fall asleep. :P

2. Do all of your schoolwork and homework backwards so that the teacher has to read it from a mirror to understand it.

3. Wear glasses with eyes painted on them, and fall asleep. :P

4. Bring a cooler and lawn chair to class and sit in the front next to the teacher's desk and say sarcasticly "Who's up for some extremely fun learning!".

5. Send your teachers a list of "Ways to Annoy Your Teachers" in an envelope labeled "Blackmail."

6. during health class ask them if its natural to have pimples on your butt.


7. When the teacher asks you a question ask her/him to repeat it. Constantly have them repeat it, and then say, "Still can't hear! I think I'm deaf!

8. Cry in class for no reason. When the teacher asks you what's wrong, go, I don't know!

9. Bring your cat to class with you and say it followed you and you can't get it to leave.

10. Ask your teacher (especially female) when the last time she shaved her mustache was.

10 Effective Ways to Study and Make Better Grades.

1. Eliminate human distractions. Pick a study location where you can work uninterrupted. If it’s your room, post a “do not disturb” sign on your door. If you’re interrupted anyway, be sure the guilty party knows that these interruptions are not acceptable. You should play hard. But when the time comes to study, you should study hard too - your friends should be able to accept that. Oh yeah, turn off your phone(s) too.


2. Clear your mind. Now more than ever, our brains are inundated with information. Gone are the days when college students had to manage a handful of things - class, social life, and well, social life. Today’s college students are bombarded with cell phone calls, rss feeds, facebook updates, internship concerns, and email in addition to social life and class work. Before you crack your books, take a few minutes to clear your mind. Close your eyes, breath deeply, and relax. I highly recommend the 10-Minute Supercharger from Learning Strategies Corporation for this purpose. It’s ten minutes well spent to prepare your mind for maximum learning before you ever begin. You’ll be relaxed yet energetic and ready to start learning.


3. Begin with the end in mind. Now that your mind is clear, take a moment to set some goals for what you will learn. If you’re studying from a textbook, use the objectives printed at the beginning of the chapter as a starting point. If that’s not an option, use your course syllabus to set you on the right track. As the old saying goes, “if you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” The road to learning specific information is, itself, very specific. Chart your path in advance and you’re in for a very productive session.


4. Use earplugs. I’m a big fan of wearing earplugs when I study. They block out ambient noise, such as doors closing in the distance, chatter in the hallway, and sirens from outside the building. As an added benefit, I’ve found that using earplugs actually allows me to “hear myself think.” Because the ambient noise is no longer there, I am able to hear the conversations I’m having in my head thereby enabling me to build networks of information (versus memorizing alone). Call me crazy, but it works.


5. Recognize the power of smell. Smell is said to be the sense with the greatest attachment to memory. Some think it’s proximity to memory centers in the brain is responsible for this connection. Experiment with the effects of smell on your memory while you study. If it’s safe (and permitted), burn a scented candle or incense during your study sessions. Then when you’re stumped on a test or quiz, close your eyes and recall the smell of the candle or incense. It might just jumpstart your memory.


6. Develop a standard notetaking method. Different students like different note taking methods. Whether you prefer mind mapping, Cornell notes, outline format, sentence format, or another method, find one that works for you and stick to it. Over time, you’ll develop your own version of note taking and will be able to use this method for the rest of your life.


7. Take regular breaks. Your brain can only take so much in one sitting. When your mind starts to wander, or you find yourself daydreaming or reading the same paragraph over and over again, it’s time to take a break. Spend 10 minutes away from the books, but don’t enter another activity that requires concentration or would result in distraction. In other words, don’t check facebook, don’t visit with friends, don’t read email or rss feeds. Instead, take the opportunity to go to the bathroom, drink a bit of water (500mL is good), and stretch your back, neck, arms and legs. Streching promotes blood flow in the body and will serve to wake your brain up allowing you to get back into 100% concentration much faster. When you’re ready to get back to it, don’t forget to clear your mind and begin with the end in mind again.


8. Hydrate. Drink water while you study. If you’re brain is getting a workout, it needs water to function efficiently - just as your muscles do. Take advantage of internal interruptions like daydreaming or “oh-yeah, I’ve gotta do that” moments by taking a drink of water, writing down the interruption, and then get back to learning. The goal is to sustain a 100% concentration level. Water will help to make this happen. As an added benefit, drinking water will also force you to take regular breaks as your kidneys do their job.


9. Snack on brain food. Just as your brain needs water to operate in a highly productive state, it also needs food. Snacking lightly while studying prevents you from getting hungry (another internal distraction). Light snacking also prevents you from having to eat large meals that result in the post meal coma that we’re all so familiar with. Remember, healthy snacks are important.


10. Tweak your routine. After you’ve established a routine, don’t be afraid to tweak it to perfection. Over time you’ll find that you prsefer one candle over another, like the purple earplugs more than the orange ones, and learn more in the library than you do in the coffee shop. Constant improvement is what makes you a bona fide lifelong learner.

10 Ways to Cheat on a Test

1) Bring a ton of snapple caps and hope you’re very lucky.

2) Piss on the test and hand it in. The teacher will be so disgusted, he’ll have to give you a 100! Or send you to a therapist…

3) Tattoo the answers to the palm of your hand. Make sure this test is important, though. It’ll only work once.

4) Bribe your teacher with sexual favors…unless they’re the same gender/old. Then you’re screwed. Actually, both ways you’re screwed.

5) Gouge out your teachers eyeballs, explode her ear drums, and murder all other potential proctors. You may go to jail, but you’ll ace that test.

6) Build a high-tech, invisible robot that knows all the answers and has blu-ray capabilities. But if you can do that, you probably don’t even need to cheat on the test.



7) Tape a paper with the answers to the back of the person sitting in front of you. When he leaves, the teacher will think he cheated!

8) Don’t hand in the test. You’ll get a zero, but it’ll confuse the hell out of that smug, bastard teacher.

9) Sneak out in the middle of the night and hope it doesn’t find out.

10) Swallow a paper with the answers and ask to go to the bathroom. Then rummage through the feces.

DISCLAIMER: Will not work for a pregnancy test…except maybe the pissing one.

10 Ways to Propose a Girl.

Are you nervous on how to propose to your girl? Well, don’t be. Here are some tips that can help you in knowing the best ways in which you can propose to a girl. The one thing that you should keep in mind while proposing is that girls are very sensitive and every girl are different from the other. So make sure that your way of proposing to the girl should be unique in your own way, and should be according to the temperament of the girl.

Some of the best ideas for proposing a girl are mentioned below. Try them out and win the heart of your lady.

1. Be yourself. This is the first rule that you need to get into your mind when you think of proposing a girl. Do not overdo your proposal. Keep it simple yet special and sweet. Be who you are, and in your own special way say those three golden words.

2. Another old way of proposing is going down on your knees with a red rose in your hand. Though this is an old way of proposing, this still goes down the line and is bound to impress any girl.

3. Make her feel special by taking her out for a quiet romantic dinner. Prepare well and have her favorite dishes ordered for the two of you. Have her favorite music playing in the background and find a nice romantic moment to propose her. She will definitely be moved by the effort that you would have taken for arranging the special dinner.


4. You can get a banner prepared with the word I Love You and have it displayed outside her house or in the workplace. It is advised that you do not use her real name on the banner, but use the endearment that you generally use to call her.

5. Take her to the place where you met each other for the first time. Recreate the same moment and then propose to her. It will definitely move her and get embossed on her memory for lifetime.

6. If it is possible for you and you can afford it, have your proposal written on the sky. You can contact the skywriting company and have it arranged when the two of you are together.

7. You can make arrangement for asking your neighbors to put off their lights and have the windows lit up in the words I Love You. Take her to the balcony and open her eyes when everything is set. She will definitely love this.

8. You can drive to the beach in the evening and with some romantic soft music playing. Just as the sun is going down whisper the three words that she is longing to hear in her ears. This will definitely make her melt.

9. If both of you are the adventurous kinds, then you can plan an early morning trek to a nearby place, and when the sun is rising go on your knees and propose her on top of the summit.

10. If you want to make it dramatic and funny, then you can have a water gun and hold it out on her and say you are under arrest, and when she is all shocked and panicky then say for stealing my heart and say out I Love You.

With these great ideas you can definitely win her heart. So pull up your sleeves and walk up to her and say out what you have in your heart.

10 ways to skip if your Friend catches you Stealing his Phone?

1. Shoot him and steal the rest of his stuff as well.

2. Stop in surprise, shake your head, and say “Damn, that split personality problem again”.

3. Pacify him saying he can steal your phone when you buy a new one.

4. claim you just wanted to donate it to the Air Hostesses fund.

5. Say you just wanted to give EMINEM a missed call.

6. Argue saying “You never complained when I stole your wallet. You didn’t even notice it!”

7. Offer him 50% of the share which will come from selling the phone. Start negotiating from 30%.


8. Claim you just saved his life. Does he not know how dangerous radioactive signals from phone are?

9. Claim your battery died. You just wanted to make a call.

10. Apologies, Offer to write ‘I will not steal’ 50 times to pacify him.


(Remember,This is just for fun reading, don’t start taking it seriously. Do add your comments or Share if you like it!)

10 Things you should never tell a guy.

Here are the 10 things a girl should never tell a guy:

1. No more nights outs with the boys.

2. When we have kids na…..

3. I’m feeling bored. Let’s go shopping.

4. Does this make me look fat?

5. I’m not ready for this.

6. Notice anything different?

7. Is she hot?

8. Guess what day it is today?

9. So I got these is for Justin Beiber’s latest movie ticket.

10. Do you still love me?

10 ways to Impress a Guy

So you really want to do something special for your guy? Everybody needs to be pampered and surprised a little…even your men. Coming up with some ways to really make them happy can be harder then it looks though. Surprisingly enough, men love the little things almost as much as women. Be in tune with what your guy likes and try to do those things that interest him. Here are 10 ways to impress your guy:

1. Keep smiling always as it will melt his heart and will help relax both of you even in tense situations.

2. Guys appreciate fun loving girls. It won’t be a bad idea to talk to your guy in a casual manner once in a while.

3. Gone are the days when guys were always expected to make the first move. So don’t be shy and tell him what is in your heart and how do you feel about him.

4. Not just girls but guys also like to be flattered. Dish out that occasional compliment and watch what wonders it can do.



5. Just look at him in the eyes and smile for two seconds but do not stare.

6. Smell good. Wear a nice perfume as it will not only make you confident but will also make the guy attracted to you.

7. Having a certain level of intelligence and knowledge of the events happening around you will help you strike a meaningful conversation.

8. Compliment him. You could say, "I like your shirt," or, "I love your hair," but make it kind of casual, guys like feeling confident.

9. If you have noticed him glancing over at you or smiling at you, try dropping a hint or asking one of your friends to tell him that you like him.

10. Find out what he likes. Don't change yourself to become what he likes but find what you two have in common and talk about that.

Follow the simple tips given above and you will master the art of “How to Impress a Guy”.

10 Ways to Look Good in Photos.

1. Focus your eyes just slightly above the camera lens.

Move your face forward a bit, and tip down your chin.

2. Put your tongue behind your teeth and smile.

It will relax your face.

3. Keep your arms by your side.

But not glued there. To look natural, they should be a little away from your body.

4. Test-drive clothing against a white wall.

With an indirect, natural light source (under a tree, indoors near a window), it will show whether blue really is your best color.

5. As a rule, avoid patterns.



6. Photos exaggerate everything.

So go easy on the makeup. For women under 30, a little mascara and lip gloss; over 30, add a touch of concealer.

7. Practice the classic model pose.

Turn your body three quarters of the way toward the camera, with one foot in front of the other and one shoulder closer to the photographer. When you face forward, your body tends to look wider.

8. For standing photos:

Belly in, buttocks tight, shoulders back, spine straight.

9. Study photogenic people.

And look closely at photos in which you think you looked best. What was your best angle? You’ll probably see that you were laughing or having a good time. Capturing someone when they’re relaxed or most animated usually makes for the best results.

10. To feel at ease:

Try closing your eyes, then opening them slowly just before the photo is taken.

10 ways to Relieve Stress.

Stress is a change in the natural function of the body and mind. Falling in love, exercising, and living causes stress. The interpretation of these events determines whether they are viewed as a preferred or non-preferred stress.


Dis-ease occurs when non-preferred stress begins to affect our health. Stress appears initially as mental, emotional, or physical resistance. We have the ability to reduce non-preferred stress by telling ourselves and others how we feel and what we want. Stress says: slow down, ask for what we want, check our agreements, and take better care of ourselves.





1. Breathe, when you feel tense, take 10 slow, deep breaths in through your nose, out through your mouth.


2. Touch, hug someone, hold hands, stroke a pet, make non-sexual physical contact with people, brush your hair.


3. See the humor in life. Laugh at your self and life. Have fun and "play" at life.



4. Meditation 15 minutes a day. Take time to relax, sit, breathe deeply, quiet your mind. Record In-sights and dreams in a journal.






5. Communicate with friends. Spend time with each other. Share the good stuff.


6. Make a TO DO list of your agreements for each month. Schedule both play time and free time, and do both activities.


7. Say "NO" Allow yourself to say "NO" to some requests. Don't over commit yourself. Put yourself first; say YES to you.




8. You always have choices in life. Re-Order your priorities. If you are not happy, choose some- thing new.


9. Be honest with yourself con- cerning your fears. Ask for more information or assistance.


10. Only do your job. Do not get conned into permanently assuming another person's job responsibilities.

10 Easy Ways to Save Money.

Let’s keep this one simple and clean - just a bunch of relatively easy ways to save money. As you incorporate more and more of these tips into your life, the savings add up and it wouldn’t surprise me if you could save thousands over the course of a year.

It will take a little work on your part but those thousands of dollars in savings are what helped us get out of debt earlier, kept us out of debt for several years and will hopefully help us pay off our recent auto loan soon as well.



1. Simplify your wardrobe
Normal = Buying clothes that you like without looking at the wardrobe as a whole

Don’t buy clothes that will only work as one outfit. Look for clothes that you will be able to wear with many other things, creating multiple outfits. Instead of buying that green and purple striped coat that will only go with one or two outfits, you could get a solid color gray that will work most of what you wear. Spend less money on the trendy items that won’t be in style long, and spend more on quality items. You really can do this and still be stylish at the same time. Simplifying your wardrobe is just one way you can save money on clothes.


2. Make money with your clutter
Normal = Garage sale or throw away clutter

It is easier than you may think. eBay and Amazon.com make the process a breeze. Sign up for an account, take a few digital pictures, post it, and watch the buyers come to you. HINT: The biggest key I have noticed is selling brand name items and taking a few seconds to think, “If I wanted to buy this item, how would I search for it?” If you do this, you will be much more successful.



3. Buy generic products whenever possible:

Does it really matter whether your cereal is made by Kellogg's or is the store brand? Does it matter if your milk is Oak Farms or the store brand? For a few things (like soda in particular), I prefer brand name products. For others, I do not mind generic store brands if they can save me money. Find what works for you and switch to generic brands for at least a part of your grocery list.



4.Disconnect land line if possible:

Unless you have small kids in the house or older people to take care of, it is more than likely that you will be able to survive with only the mobile phones and can get rid of the land line. We have survived without any problems for over 4 years now with out a land line. Our Internet comes via cable.

5. Instead of buying books, borrow books from the library:

Whenever possible, borrow your books instead of buying them. The card to your public library is free and the libraries are generally well stocked. In my city, the chain of public libraries is connected and the available books can be checked online. If there is some book that I cannot find in my local branch, I can make a request online for it to be brought in from one of the other branches to mine which is very convenient.

6. Regulate your electric use:

When not in use, unplug electric appliances. Apparently, unplugging the TV instead of just switching it off can save a lot of electricity! When not in a room, switch off the lights and the fan. Use a programmable thermostat to control your A/C and heater usage. If that's too much, at least know what each appliance uses and unplug a few of them.

7. Regularly Shop Insurance Rates:

Regardless of who you buy from, you can be abnormal and save money by shopping around every year or so for insurance. I have saved over $530/year for the same coverage by getting car insurance quotes on a regular basis. Now there is something to be said for finding a top-rated insurance company – it may not be worth saving $50/year to switch to a terrible company, so use your own judgement.

8. Book early:
Low-cost airlines have created a market in holidays for people prepared to fly to any destination provided it's cheap. You can benefit from this too. Just remember, only a few seats on each flight are sold at bargain-basement prices and once they're sold, the prices rise. So book early.

9. Trim your cell phone costs

The economy stinks for you, but it really stinks for providers of services that can easily be scaled back—like cell phone providers. On the one hand, they may fight harder to keep you paying for data plans, text messages, and other "value added" items, but they really, truly don't want to lose you as a customer. If you can't re-negotiate a better deal, though, take a tip from PC Magazine columnist Sascha Segan and cut your phone bill by actually jumping ship (to a pay-as-you-go phone), then let them come crawling back with a package pitch. Stuck in a contract with a huge cancellation fee? Check out contract-swapping sites like CellTradeUSA.com and CellSwapper.com, which make use of (legal!) trade clauses and might just help you escape your monthly vig.

10. Don’t go shopping at high end grocery stores:

It’s overpriced and you can get everything you need at cheaper groceries stores. There’s a reason why they call stores like Whole Foods, ‘Whole Paycheck’.

10 ways to ANNOY PEOPLE.

1. Sing the Batman theme incessantly.


2. In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sensual massage."

3. Insist that your drive-through order is "to go."


4. Learn Morse code, and have conversations with friends in public consisting entirely of "Beeeep Bip Bip Beeeep Bip..."


5. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.


6. Amuse yourself for endless hours by hooking a camcorder to your TV and then pointing it at the screen.


7. Speak only in a "robot" voice.



8. Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly.


9. Start each meal by conspicuously licking all your food, and announce that this is so no one will "swipe your grub."


10. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies.


11. Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.


12. Sniff incessantly.


13. Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles.


14. Name your dog "Dog."


15. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep them tuned up."


16. Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think."

17. Claim that you must always wear a bicycle helmet as part of your "astronaut training."


18. Declare your apartment an independent nation, and sue your neighbors upstairs for "violating your airspace."


19. Forget the punchline to a long joke, but assure the listener it was a "real hoot."


20. Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with a can of Lysol.


21. Practice making fax and modem noises.


22. Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and copy them to your boss.


23. Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.


24. Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid the appearance of ignorance.


25. Erect an elaborate network of ropes in your backyard, and tell the neighbors you are a "spider person."


26. Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with prophesy."


27. Wear a special hip holster for your remote control.


28. Do not add any inflection to the end of your sentences, producing awkward silences with the impression that you'll be saying more at any moment.


29. Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears.


30. Disassemble your pen and "accidentally" flip the ink cartridge across the room.


31. Give a play-by-play account of a person's every action in a nasal Howard Cossell voice.


32. Holler random numbers while someone is counting.

10 Ways to Lose Weight.

Sure, you can lose weight quickly. There are plenty of fad diets that work to shed pounds rapidly -- while leaving you feeling hungry and deprived. But what good is losing weight only to regain it? To keep pounds off permanently, it's best to lose weight slowly. And many experts say you can do that without going on a "diet." Instead, the key is making simple tweaks to your lifestyle.

One pound of fat -- is equal to 3,500 calories.  By shaving 500 calories a day through dietary and exercise modifications, you can lose about a pound a week. If you only need to maintain your current weight, shaving 100 calories a day is enough to avoid the extra 1-2 pounds most adults gain each year.

Adopt one or more of these simple, painless strategies to help lose weight without going on a "diet":

1. Eat Breakfast Every Day. One habit that's common to many people who have lost weight and kept it off is eating breakfast every day. "Many people think skipping breakfast is a great way to cut calories, but they usually end up eating more throughout the day, says Elizabeth Ward, MS, RD, author of The Pocket Idiot's Guide to the New Food Pyramids.  "Studies show people who eat breakfast have lower BMIs than breakfast-skippers and perform better, whether at school or in the boardroom." Try a bowl of whole-grain cereal topped with fruit and low-fat dairy for a quick and nutritious start to your day.


2. Close the Kitchen at Night. Establish a time when you will stop eating so you won't give in to the late-night munchies or mindless snacking while watching television. "Have a cup of tea, suck on a piece of hard candy or enjoy a small bowl of light ice cream or frozen yogurt if you want something sweet after dinner, but then brush your teeth so you will be less likely to eat or drink anything else," suggests Elaine Magee, MPH, RD, WebMD's "Recipe Doctor" and the author of Comfort Food Makeovers.


3. Choose Liquid Calories Wisely. Sweetened drinks pile on the calories, but don't reduce hunger like solid foods do.  Satisfy your thirst with water, sparkling water with citrus, skim or low-fat milk, or small portions of 100% fruit juice. Try a glass of nutritious and low-calorie vegetable juice to hold you over if you get hungry between meals. Be careful of alcohol calories, which add up quickly.  If you tend to drink a glass or two of wine or a cocktail on most days, limiting alcohol to the weekends can be a huge calorie saver.


4. Eat More Produce.  Eating lots of low-calorie, high-volume fruits and vegetables crowds out other foods that are higher in fat and calories. Move the meat off the center of your plate and pile on the vegetables. Or try starting lunch or dinner with a vegetable salad or bowl of broth-based soup, suggests Barbara Rolls, PhD, author of The Volumetrics Eating Plan. The U.S. government's 2005 Dietary Guidelines suggest that adults get 7-13 cups of produce daily. Ward says that's not really so difficult: "Stock your kitchen with plenty of fruits and vegetables and at every meal and snack, include a few servings," she says. "Your diet will be enriched with vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, fiber, and if you fill up on super-nutritious produce, you won't be reaching for the cookie jar." 


5. Go for the Grain.  By substituting whole grains for refined grains like white bread, cakes, cookies, and pretzels, you add much-needed fiber and will fill up faster so you're more likely to eat a reasonable portion. Choose whole-wheat breads and pastas, brown rice, bran flakes, popcorn, and whole-rye crackers. 


6. Control Your Environments.  Another simple strategy to help cut calories is to control your environment -- everything from stocking your kitchen with lots of healthy options to choosing the right restaurants. That means avoiding the temptation by staying away from all-you-can-eat restaurants.  And when it comes to parties, "eat a healthy snack before so you won't be starving, and be selective when you fill your plate at the buffet," suggests Ward.  Before going back for more food, wait at least 15 minutes and have a big glass of water.


7. Trim Portions. If you did nothing else but reduce your portions by 10%-20%, you would lose weight. Most of the portions served both in restaurants and at home are bigger than you need.  Pull out the measuring cups to get a handle on your usual portion sizes, and work on paring them down.  Get instant portion control by using small bowls, plates, and cups, says Brian Wansink, PhD, author of Mindless Eating. You won't feel deprived because the food will look plentiful on dainty dishware.


8. Add More Steps. Get yourself a pedometer and gradually add more steps until you reach 10,000 per day. Throughout the day, do whatever you can to be more active -- pace while you talk on the phone, take the dog out for an extra walk, and march in place during television commercials.  Having a pedometer serves as a constant motivator and reminder.



9. Have Protein at Every Meal and Snack.  Adding a source of lean or low-fat protein to each meal and snack will help keep you feeling full longer so you're less likely to overeat. Try low-fat yogurt, small portion of nuts, peanut butter, eggs, beans, or lean meats. Experts also recommend eating small, frequent meals and snacks (every 3-4 hours), to keep your blood sugar levels steady and to avoid overindulging.


10. Switch to Lighter Alternatives. Whenever you can, use the low-fat versions of salad dressings, mayonnaise, dairy products, and other products.  "You can trim calories effortlessly if you use low-fat and lighter products, and if the product is mixed in with other ingredients, no one will ever notice," says Magee. More smart substitutions: Use salsa or hummus as a dip; spread sandwiches with mustard instead of mayo; eat plain roasted sweet potatoes instead of loaded white potatoes; use skim milk instead of cream in your coffee; hold the cheese on sandwiches; and use a little vinaigrette on your salad instead of piling on the creamy dressing.