WEIGHT LOSS HACKS

- Drink two cups of water before meals can make you lose an average of four and a half more pounds in twelve weeks.

- Eating a small amount of chocolate in the morning can actually help your body burn calories and lose weight throughout the day.

- A cup of coffee before a workout speeds up the fat burning process.

- Skipping meals can cause your body to go into a fat storing starvation mode, making it harder to burn calories.

- The scent of a banana contains a compound that may actually help you lose weight.

- Eating celery is technically exercise. When you ear celery, you burn more calories digesting it than you consume.

- Don't eat anything four hours before you go to bed. It really makes a huge difference.

- Eating breakfast in the morning makes it ten times easier to burn calories throughout the day.

- If you want good running form, try to run as quietly as possible. You'll be able to run faster and longer.

- Drinking five cups of green tea in a day can help you lose weight around your belly.

- Always exercise on Monday. This sets the psychological pattern for the rest of the week.

- Need some motivation to go to the gym? GymPact is an app that will pay you for working out and punishes you for missing out on days.

- If you're going for a run, the jog.fm will select a music playlist for you based on your pace.

- Moderate alcohol drinkers gain less weight over time than people who don't drink at all.

- You can burn up to 180 calories while watching a horror movie.

- Eating more spicy food tricks your taste buds into being more satisfied with smaller amounts of food.

- Trying to eat less? Use a smaller plate. It tricks your mind into thinking there's more food, and also limits what you can pile onto your plate.

- Working out before bed makes your muscles burn more calories throughout your sleep cycle.

- The faster you eat, the more weight you gain. A study showed that a fast eater gained more than four pounds over eight years, while a slow eater gained only one and a half pounds.

- Doing 7,000 jumping jacks burns enough calories to lose about one pound. Spread that over a week and you'll lose an extra pound every week.

- To lose 1 pound of fat, you must run for over 3 hours. Run for 27 minutes a day, lose a pound a week.

- Make your playlists as long as you plan to exercise. This will make you focus more on your workout and keep you from constantly looking at the clock.

- The calories in one Big Mac are equivalent to walking for 100 minutes.

- Fifteen straight minutes of laughter has the same Health & Fitness benefits as 30 minutes on sit-ups.

- Lemon juice with a pinch of salt (warm) every morning lowers cholesterol levels and brings down your weight.

- Thinking actually burns calories!

- Three passionate kisses a day can double your metabolic rate and can help you lose up to a pound.

- The less you eat sweets, the less you crave them.