A Combo That Curbs Your Appetite

Here's a little trick for controlling your appetite. And, interestingly, it has nothing to do with what you eat. It's about how you exercise.

Seems that the right combo of physical activity may have the power to make you eat less. The magic formula? Doing both cardio and strength training. Doing just one or the other doesn't really curb your calorie intake as much, if at all.

Pump It Up, Run It Off . . . and Eat Less
When men in one small study combined aerobic exercise with weight training for 16 weeks, they ate significantly fewer calories compared with the men who did either aerobics or weight training alone or who did no exercise at all. The researchers suspect that the combo of cardio and strength exercises had the most favorable effect on blood levels of fats, glucose, amino acids, and satiety hormones -- producing a powerful combination of hunger-controlling physiological changes. Get a perfectly balanced exercise portfolio for your age with the tips in this article.

Keep At It
We all know that eating fewer calories than we burn is a major key to long-term weight loss. Besides balancing your physical activities, try these other helpful tips for turning the dial down on hunger:

• Understand why you eat. You won't need willpower once you understand the chemistry behind emotional eating.
• Crank up your fat-burning furnace. Here's a way to maximize the fat-burning benefit of your workouts.
• Forget fad diets. Here's why they don't work. Instead, make a permanent life change with the online version of this best-selling diet.

Use the whole bag of tricks. Try these 10 additional strategies for wrestling your appetite to the ground.

Self-reported dietary intake following endurance, resistance and concurrent endurance and resistance training. Shaw, B. S. et al., Journal of Sports Science and Medicine. 2008 Jun;7(2):255-259.