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Downsize your portions! Experts voted this as their top choice. Strategies that impressed the fewest? Putting your food on a blue plate, for example, was ranked bottom of the pile it was simply too unrealistic.

1. Downsize yor portions
2. If you drink, have at least three consecutive alcohol-free days a week
3. Fool your eyes: use salad plate for meals instead of a dinner plate, a tall glass rather than a squat one
4. Avoid highly refined "white" foods, such as a white bread
5. See what you're eating: eat from a bowl or plate instead of eating out of a bag or jar
6. Eat before you go to a party to avoid being tempted by indulgence foods
7. Surround yourself with blue: it's an appetite suppressant.

That's all the trick and shortcut for today!