True. Using a smaller plate at a meal will indeed help you to lose weight. When you use a smaller plate, the plate appears to be fuller and your eyes fool your stomach into thinking there is more food. You will then feel full sooner and will stop eating earlier. Eating less food at a meal will lower the ratio of calories from the meal from being converted to fat.

True. It is well-known that your body will respond to a lack of food by lowering its metabolism. This is simply a primitive survival mechanism of the human body that has evolved over thousands of years. If you attempt to lose weight fast by dramatically cutting calories it will cause you to lose weight in the beginning, but when you're metabolism slows your body will attempt to store more calories which will add to your weight. Almost all of this weight will be stored as fat which is the very thing you are trying to prevent.

False. There really is no need to burn a few pounds before you start a physical weight training program. If you have excess weight and feel it will make it difficult to perform your weight training exercises, simply use lower weights in the beginning. This will actually allow you to lose weight and get into better physical shape much more rapidly. You will then quickly be able to increase your weights for your exercises.

False. If you cut back on your muscle training exercises your muscles may slowly shrink in size over time. Your body may also store more fat as less muscle mass means your body will burn less calories. Less exercise could also cause your body to store more fat. However, the muscle itself does not turn into fat even though from the outside it appears that is exactly what is happening.

True. It may be hard to believe that you could burn more calories when you're fast asleep. However, there actually is a way to increase your metabolism and burn more calories while sleeping. Although not suggested immediately before sleep, if you perform a strenuous weight training exercise the few hours before sleep, your body's metabolism will remain high for several hours after you complete the exercise. If you sleep an hour or two after the exercise, the higher metabolism will actually allow you to burn more calories while sleeping.

False. Eating right before sleeping is very commonly believed to cause your bodies lower metabolism to cause more calories to be converted into fat. In reality this is simply not true. Your body will metabolize the calories the same way as it does while you are awake. However, eating a large meal right before sleep might hinder your efforts to get to sleep. Going to sleep on an empty stomach is also not good as this could make it difficult to follow suite as well, so have a small snack before sleep is perfectly okay.

True. Unfortunately, there is no exercise that can take fat directly off your belly area. Most parts of your body can be toned down with exercise such as your legs, arms, chest and shoulders. There are muscles underneath your belly fat, but these muscles will not allow you to take the weight off by themselves. Fortunately, you can perform cardiovascular exercise that not only removes the fat from your belly, but from all those undesirable areas of your body.

False. Counting calories is definitely vital to losing weight and keeping it off. No matter how well you catch your calories and watch what you eat, you still need a regular exercise program to seriously lose weight and keep it off. When you combine exercise with rigid calorie counting the rewards will be far greater than simply counting calories alone. Diet and exercise work very well together.

True. Eating between meals is actually very helpful in losing weight. First of all, eating small snacks, especially healthy ones, will make you feel less hungry and cause you to eat less food at each meal. Secondly, eating small meals throughout the day will keep your blood sugar and metabolism steady, which will allow your body to burn calories more efficiently and cause it store less fat.

False. Eating a healthy low-fat diet is the most important aspect to losing weight. However, this does not mean you should eat more food as this defeats the purpose of reducing caloric intake. Healthy, low-fat and low carbohydrate foods can be eaten in greater quantities than unhealthy foods, but there still should be limits on the amounts that you eat. This will limit calories as well as allow your body to burn them more efficiently.

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