Spice Up Your Meals

Adding hot peppers to your diet may help you to consume fewer calories. Capsaicin, a chemical found in hot peppers, has been shown to reduce appetite and hunger. Eating spicy peppers at breakfast suppresses hunger for the remainder of the day, resulting in weight loss. Furthermore, spicy peppers increase metabolic rate by causing thermogenic processes in human bodies to produce heat. This process consumes energy and, as a result, consumes more calories.

In one research, those who ate hot red pepper as an appetizer consumed 190 fewer calories during a subsequent lunch and snack than those who did not. If you can't stand the heat, ginger can be a good substitute. In one research of ten overweight men, it was found that when they drank ginger tea at breakfast, they felt less hungry than when they didn't.