By Jill Weisenberger, M.S., R.D., C.D.E., Lifescript Nutrition Expert Think your willpower is strong? It’s nothing against the tricks supermarkets and restaurants use to get you to eat – and spend – more. With 1,000-calorie burgers and salads, value packaging and supersizing, you have to tread carefully to avoid a supersized waistline. Learn how to outsmart 15 food traps… “We eat about 30%-35% more than we actually think we do,” says Brian Wansink, Ph.D., author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think (Bantam). Sitting in front of the TV with a bag of chips is diet sabotage – but that’s a trap you set yourself. Others are set by supermarkets, food manufacturers and restaurants. Are they trying to make us fat and unhealthy? Not necessarily. But they are trying to get us to buy and tempting our inner binge eater does the trick. “It doesn’t matter if the promotion is focused on nutritional value, fantastic taste or ease of preparation,” says registered dietitian Lynn Grieger, a health and fitness coach in Vermont. “The end result is the same.” So what’s a smart dieter to do? Learn where these calorie landmines are – and how to avoid them. Supermarket TrapsYour shopping list is full of fruits and veggies, but somehow junk food lands into your cart. Here’s why: 1. They eye it, you buy it.Moms are familiar with this scenario: You’re eyeing a whole-grain, low-sugar cereal, but your kids see sugary processed cereals with cartoon…[...]

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15 Food Traps That Derail Diets