Losing weight with scents: top 5 scents

If you can’t lose weight, diets don’t help, and working out in the gym is annoying, resort to aromatherapy. Moreover, you don’t have to buy pharmaceutical aromatic oils; plants and spices will help in this matter.

Cinnamon

Cinnamon perfectly helps to satisfy cravings for sweets, maintain a stable level of blood sugar (it is because of its “jumps” that attacks of ravenous appetite occur) and “accelerates” the metabolism. Add cinnamon to tea, cottage cheese or yogurt, or sprinkle on apples before baking. But it is better, of course, to use cinnamon sticks rather than ground cinnamon mixed with sugar or powdered sugar.

Vanilla

Its aroma helps fight the passion for chocolate. Whenever you feel a huge urge to eat a bar of chocolate, make yourself vanilla tea or light an aromatherapy candle with this scent. As with cinnamon, it's best to use vanilla beans. But keep in mind that the dosage of vanilla in the dish should be minimal. Otherwise, you risk eating or drinking real bitterness.

Green apple

It is the aroma of this fruit that will help overcome severe hunger, and will also once again convince you that it is better to eat a fruit or vegetable than a bun with poppy seeds or a slice of pizza. Of course, you could be convinced more than once that eating a green apple only increased your appetite, so it is better to smell it rather than eat it.

Chilli

A dish seasoned with a pinch of hot red pepper, contrary to popular belief, does not whet the appetite, but rather promotes quick satiety. And the capsaicin contained in chili speeds up metabolism.

Mint

To survive a hunger pangs, you need to brush your teeth with mint paste or chew a fresh plant stem. But be careful with mint tea: it can greatly inflame the feeling of hunger.

By the way, scientists from the UK recently unveiled a new weight loss remedy: snorting crystals. According to experts, they help lose weight by convincing the brain that a person is full and the body does not need more food. Even if you eat a leaf of lettuce, the special aroma of the crystals will make you feel full. Among the smells you can stop at cheese, horseradish or coffee. The neuroscientists who developed the crystals explain that the smell of food, which accounts for 90% of the taste we experience in food, delivers a satiety message to the brain. The product is going to be sold starting next year in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Germany and the UK.