Control Late Night Eating While Brightening Your Smile

What city girl (or guy) doesn’t want to be trim with a bright smile? I think most of you would vote yes to that. Well, here is an idea to kill two birds with one stone.

In my quest to brighten my smile, I got bleaching trays from my dentist. I had heard this was better than the laser as it would last longer – though more cumbersome. For those of you who aren’t aware of how it works, it is quite a process. You have syringes that contain a bleaching gel. You put a drop onto each “tooth” in your bleaching trays (that have been made from an imprint of your teeth). You then sleep with the trays and voila … in about a month or so, your teeth will be significantly whiter.

So the point of this story is that these trays can help control night time eating. Many of my clients have a hard time controlling their night time snacking. I generally plan a small after dinner snack for them for 150 calories or so. But often times the snacking continues into the night …  So my suggestion would be to have your snack, then put in the bleaching trays. This will help to curb further eating since you can’t eat with them. It is such a process to assemble the bleach in the trays that it is less likely you will take them out to eat and have to re-do the whole process again.

The only downside is that you will have slightly slurred speech if you decide to make phone calls later in the evening with these trays in!