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just increases the temptation to overeat. You don’t even have to get up to go for seconds or thirds.

Serving meals family style is even harder on the guys. Men typically eat fast and often wind up eating more just to fill the time waiting for the other family members to finish eating. Not the best weight-loss strategy.

The remedy: Keep the serving bowls and dishes in the kitchen. Then you actually have to get up to get more. Research found that just moving serving dishes to a side counter six feet away reduced how much people ate. Women eat about 9 percent less (since they’re less likely to eat additional portions to begin with) but men ate less by a whopping 29%!

The sabotage: Parking as close as you can to the front door of every place you visit such as your work, the grocery store, the dentist, etc. Taking very few steps in a day decreases our metabolism, decreases our heart health, and decreases our fitness levels. The remedy: For an easy boost to all aspects of your health, practice parking much farther away than you are used to so that you can get in extra steps. Trying parking in the farthest spot away, or even a block away if you can. Those small bursts of exercise can really add up over the course of a day, burning extra calories and increasing our fitness level.

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