There is no better time clock than your own body. Have you noticed how efficient your body is at letting you know if it is time for breakfast, snack, lunch or dinner?

But problems arise because we generally have two reasons for eating. The first is hunger and the second is appetite. Aren’t hunger and appetite the same thing, you may be asking. Not at all. Hunger is completely different from appetite.

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I try my hardest to keep junk food out of the house. If it’s around, and I see it, I’m much more tempted to have a little sneak.

A little bit of junk food once in a while isn’t a problem. The problem is when you keep saying, “I’ll just have a bit,” over and over again. When you add up those little “bits” of calories, chances are you end up overeating — and gaining weight.

What I’ve started doing is playing peek-a-boo with the junk food — only I don’t play the full game: I keep the food hidden! Out of sight, out of mind definitely works for me. My hubby loves to buy dark chocolate and it’s been creeping into the house more and more often. So I’ve taken to hiding it in the back of the food cupboard. If he wants it, he can go look for it!

What’s great about this “out of sight, out of mind” method is that science backs it up!

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I’ve been a member of Tom Venuto’s member’s-only website called “Burn The Fat Inner Circle” since January 2008 — and I have to say, I’m very impressed with what he’s put together.

This site is huge and contains some really powerful resources for people trying to lose fat and get in great shape.

The Inner Circle has very high quality materials that will help members burn more fat and really achieve the results they’re looking for. (I lost 6% body fat in a 12 week period!)

Before I give you some insider-details of what the Inner Circle offers, let me tell you a little bit about Tom Venuto — just in case you don’t know who he is.

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Want to hear something interesting? From February 12th to May 5th (12 weeks), my scale told me I lost 4.2lbs — and I was THRILLED. Yes, you heard right, I was thrilled. Why would anybody be that happy about 12 weeks of hard work and only seeing a small drop in weight? That’s because the scale doesn’t tell the whole story!

You see, all that time I was measuring my body fat percentage with the Accu-Measure body fat caliper. So, although the scale said 4.2lbs, Accu-Measure was telling me that I went from 30.8% body fat to 24.6%. In those 12 weeks, I lost 10lbs of fat and gained 5.8lbs of muscle, according to the Accu-Measure chart. So, believe me, I was thrilled. Can you imagine how I would have felt if I had only gone by the numbers on the scale?

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If you know me at all, you know I’m a big fan of calorie counting. There’s something so motivating about knowing how many calories you eat vs. how many you burn — and calorie counting helps me avoid certain foods when I *know* those extra calories are going straight to my hips!

Calorie counting can be a real eye-opening experience if you’ve never done it before. It can take some getting used to, but it’s definitely worth it.

There are lots of online calorie counters/fitness trackers, but today I’m going to talk about a downloadable software: FitDay for PC.

FitDay for PC is a software that’s easily installed on your PC, so you don’t need to be online to use it. You don’t have to worry about slow connections or logging in, or losing data if your Internet connection times out.

Not only can you track your food and exercise with FitDay PC, you can track things like your body measurements and your mood — and that’ll help you see the relationship between your mood and your food! This can help a lot when it comes to cravings and comfort food triggers.

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