Food is an integral part of your weight management and if you are consuming food in calories that exceed your consumption you will gain weight.

However, short of following a strict or commercial diet, here are some tips that can give you some clues:

You do not have to follow plans or diets that contain certain foods, you can eat the types of foods that you like right now watching the amount of calories you consume from them every day.

You burn calories for anything you do, even when you sleep, if you stay active or exercise you can burn your excess calories from food and be ok, there are tools like here at Yoyobelly's the 'Exercise and Calories List' that will tell you per activity how much calories on average you burn and calculate how many you are burnig.

Many diets try this approach, it helps curve appetite, it keeps your metabolism going and definetely prevent binges that come from hunger.

Many of us underestimate the value of water in weight management, body thirst can send signals that we mis-interpret as hunger and staying hydrated evenly during the day helps to curve appetite as well, the recommended daily dose is 6 to 8 glasses distributed during the day.

Portions these days are sometimes outrageous, our body defeinetely does not need so much to stay healthy, a rule of thumb is to not eat at every meal more than a fist worth in size of food, gradually lower the portion of your meals.

Your body requires a balance of macronutrients every day, it requires proteins, carbs and fat, if you starve it of any it will send signals of cravings and what happens is that when we feel them sometimes we eat something that is not even covering those needs, keeping the vicious cycle live, it will crave for something again, try to eat balanced macronutrients every day..

Several bad habits makes us eat more, not sleeping enough, not to control our emotions and getting angry, stressful or anxious, drinking alcohol, etc., curve the demons that you think cause you to eat.>