While it is never easy to lose weight, a few tips from experts can really help you in a lot of different ways. However most weight loss experts would advise you to simply diet and exercise. If it were easy as following these two words, then everybody would have been able to lose weight successfully. In this article I will share with you five unconventional weight loss ideas that have worked for my friends.

1. Smell your Food: Most people don't even know about it, but the fact remains that if you smell your food for a long time, you will be able to suppress virtually half of your appetite. As for the other half, well you can easily combat it by eating your food slowly. Eating slowly not only helps you digest your food more easily, but also helps to kill your appetite, because your brain tends to think that you have eaten a lot of food when in reality you might have eaten only half that amount! Great way to suppress your appetite without using any of those weight loss supplements.

2. Eat foods of the same flavor: If your dinner is composed of foods of different aroma, you are likely to gorge on all of them and overeat, thereby increasing your calorie intake. However, if you eat foods of the same flavor, you will pretty soon become bored with it and leave the dinner table sooner than you realize! This is a great way to cut down on food intake without any feeling of deprivation!

3. Exercises: You might be aware of the fact that exercise is the key to losing weight successfully by burning off calories, but most people cannot simply find time for their workouts. This problem becomes non-existent if you do high intensity exercises that burn off more fat in less time; in this way you won't have to spend a long time in exercising. Studies have pointed out that one can lose far more weight by doing weight lifting, sprinting or resistance training for a short time than by walking or jogging for a much longer time -you may or may not believe it but this is a fact! High intensity exercises typically use up more energy than others, and the more energy you use the more fat your body will burn!

4. Sleep adequately: Late night projects or jobs that require you to burn the midnight oil might not be fit for you if you are looking forward to losing your pounds. People who don't sleep adequately gain more weight than others.

5. Eat spicy foods: You might have been forbidden by your doctor from eating spicy foods. Well, if you are looking forward to losing eight, then you need to reverse the rule by eating more and more spicy foods. Spice increases your metabolic rate like nothing else, and as you might know, increasing your metabolic rate is the sure shot way to fast weight loss. Not only that, spicy foods also immunizes you against several harmful disease such as diabetes, heart disease as well as Alzheimer's disease.

If you follow these simple five tips I have no doubt you will be able to lose weight pretty fast!