If you cut your meal in half to supercharge your diet, your dinner plate may look empty. You're not likely to feel satisfied with a meal that looks small. Boost the volume on your plate with no-calorie or low-calorie foods.

Keep fresh lettuce in the fridge and use it to increase the size of your sandwich, salad or tacos. Making a casserole? Keep frozen vegetables on hand and add chopped carrots peas or corn to the mix. You can even make rice and grains more substantial by adding onions and peppers. 

Boosting volume with veggies will add very few calories to your meal but can help to provide greater meal satisfaction and enjoyment. When you feel full and happy, you're likely to eat less in the hours after your meal. 

Stair climbing burns mega calories. It's also a quick and efficient way to get a great looking backside and leaner legs. But you may not want to do a complete stair climbing workout every day. 

Instead, just climb a few flights of stairs here and there throughout your normal daily activities. Skip the elevator at work, avoid the escalator at the mall and make the extra effort when you're at home. You burn almost 10 calories per minute when you hike up the stairs. Your total number might reach a hundred calories or more throughout the day. This simple trick could help you to lose an extra half pound or even an extra pound each week.

You may not want to give up alcohol completely, but if you can ban booze for a few weeks, you'll notice a difference on the scale. There are many different weight loss benefits that you'll enjoy if you go sober.

First, if you drink water instead of wine at happy hours and other festive events, you'll significantly decrease your calorie intake. A single glass of wine provides about 125 calories or more. Cocktails can provide 200 or more.

Next, you'll also be less likely to munch on high-fat and high-calorie foods if you avoid alcohol. And lastly, you're more likely to keep your workout plan on track if you don't have to deal with a morning-after headache and exhaustion. Then end result? Fewer diet slip-ups and faster weight loss results.

Before you eat lunch or dinner, enjoy a cup of warm, clear broth. Chicken stock, vegetable broth and even beef are popular options. These comforting soups provide very few calories, and they help you to eat less in a few different ways.

First, they fill you up, so you don't want to eat as much. And the warm broth also slows down the eating process. If you learn to eat more slowly, you're more likely to feel and acknowledge the signs of fullness so that you stop eating when you need to.

You may have heard of waist training to lose weight. Or perhaps you're familiar with the corset diet, made popular by several Hollywood celebs. These diets work for some women because a tight corset or waist trainer makes it uncomfortable to overeat. So you stick to your diet and slim down faster.

But you don't need to buy an expensive (and often uncomfortable) garment to take advantage of this trick. Simply wear a belt to get the same effect. Make sure the belt you choose fits snugly around your waist, rather than your hips. Then as you eat, the pressure in your midsection will remind you to slow down.

It's not uncommon to think you're hungry when your body actually needs water, not food. Signs of thirst and hunger can easily get confused. The result is that you might eat more food and consume extra calories when your body is thirsty.

You can avoid this problem and lose weight faster if you stay hydrated. Fill a few bottles with water and keep them in the front of your well-stocked refrigerator. That way you'll see them right away when you open the door to graze for food. Then, before you eat a meal or grab a snack, drink a full 6-8 ounces. You may decide that you don't need to eat after all.