SPEEDS SLIMMING: A simple sketch

Fresh produce and warm weather make diet goals easier to achieve in the spring, but if food cravings are sabotaging your slimming, here’s another trick to try: Take 2 minutes to sketch something smile-worthy— like a funny-looking tree or silly stick figures. Scientists at New York’s Brooklyn College say this fun distraction fires up the brain region (the prefrontal cortex) that doubles willpower, so you shed up to 6 pounds in two months if you do it daily.