8 Natural Ways to Decrease Your Appetite

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• Eight ways to decrease your appetite

• The best natural fat burners

• How to calculate your macros the right way

Weight Loss

Appetite for (Fat) Destruction

The new year always brings new weight loss goals (and, rationally speaking, this means that the goals from the LAST year were probably not met). Get off on the right foot this go-around by understanding a sometimes-overlooked aspect of weight loss: appetite maintenance.

There is no reason to torture yourself with food flagellation, à la Ben Stiller in Dodgeball. Your appetite, the thing that propels your body to seek scarce food and keep you alive, can be harnessed through these fairly simple lifestyle choices and habits.

Common bugaboos like sleep and water creep into pretty much every fitness list, and it’s no different when it comes to managing appetite and cravings. The food you eat can also determine your body’s perceived need for extra calories, making that another factor to consider in your 2025 diet plan. With proper planning, nothing is out of reach, so make a list, check it twice, and prepare for your year-long weight loss success.

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Supplements

Natural Incineration

In addition to conventional means of reducing your calorie surplus, you can harness the power of thermodynamics by using these eight natural fat-burning techniques to turn your body into a powerful furnace.

You might already find that you’re on the right track with several of these. That morning cup of coffee is chock full of one of nature’s great fat burners: caffeine. If you can learn to enjoy it without the metric ton of sugar and syrup, you might be on your way to fat-burning greatness during your morning commute. 

Other nutrition buzzwords, like probiotics and yohimbine, can also help accelerate your body’s drive to lean itself out. There is no reason to go through this journey without a little help, especially when the aid comes in these easy-to-find, natural forms.

Dieting

Crunch the Numbers

At the end of the day, weight loss is a numbers game. While some people can “listen to their body” or “eat instinctively,” most people succeed in losing weight through discipline and following a calculated plan.

"The plan" can sometimes be daunting, but if you understand macronutrients, you can track, tweak, and manipulate the numbers associated with your diet to ensure your mathematically defined success. In the article below, we've got a guide on tracking your macros, along with a handy calculator to ensure you stay on the right path.

Fats, proteins, and carbohydrates (collectively known as macronutrients) make up the contents of everything you humans like to call “food.” The correct combination of each creates your total calorie count for the day (meaning that if you track your macros, you are also kinda tracking your calories in a nice two-for-one). 

Getting into the weeds can get confusing and might even make you question what in the world “food” really is, but understanding the basics is fundamental to making good choices when meal time comes around. Bookmark the calculator below and play along as you learn all about macronutrient math.

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Your New Year’s Fat-Loss Encyclopedia

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• That worn-out “fat-burning zone” sticker on the treadmill at your gym might not be the absolute best resource for understanding your body’s fat-burning capacity. Heed what this article has to say about your heart rate and the immolation of adipose.