So, you're broke. And being broke makes it hard to stay skinny.

Why is that? Simple: Because food costs money. If you had plenty of money, you could go out for a fabulous lunch, eat till you were just full enough, and go on with your day. But you're broke! And you paid for that food! You might only be able to afford noodles or an apple for dinner now. Maybe you'll skip dinner altogether. In any case, you're eating like your financial stability depends on it. And in a way, sadly it does.

Junk food seems to hover around the mighty dollar and euro, while the prices of fresh produce and healthy foods keep climbing higher like they don't even care. What's more, junk food is (generally) easier to store, easier to cook, and more readily available--it's even at the drug store!

If you were outrageously wealthy, you'd have personal trainers and liposuctionists at your behest, certainly...but more importantly, if you were full after a third of a burger, you'd be able to let the burger go without feeling visceral pain emanating from your wallet.

Here are five tips on how to each like a rich person:

1. If you're full, stop eating. Why spend your money to get fat?

2. Eat a smaller amount of something fresh, rather than a larger amount of something that goes in the microwave. Fresh food is more filling than junk food, and depending on what you're eating, it won't give you the sugar spike refined foods will, the kind that makes you feel starving an hour later. Plus, smaller servings will train you to feel full on less food.

3. Eating is not a hobby. Your hobby is yachting (or walking), or oil painting (or pencil sketching), or high fashion shopping (or hilarious finds at the dollar store), or playing an instrument you can't play very well (or playing an instrument you can't play very well). If you like cooking, okay, but put all but one serving away when you're done. Eating is delightful and necessary, but not all there is to your fabulous life.

4. Imagine you have your own reality show. Would you want the world to see you eating an entire box of Oreos on the couch in front of the TV? Even YOU don't want to see that.

5. Get out and exercise like somebody's making you. Be your own trainer. Half of what trainers do is kick rich butts out of bed to run in the park or do some sit-ups. Assign yourself things, and always do what you tell yourself you'll do.

And the #1 best way to stay trim? Eat three balanced meals a day and don't snack. You heard it hear first.