Sensa is an innovative weight loss system that may well mirror the efforts of Alli (but in the form of a powder that you sprinkle on your food). It was created with the view that the science of taste and smell is linked to our sense of feeling full or not.

For example, if you’re totally stuffed from overeating those bag of Doritos, would you taste the next Dorito you ate as finely as you would your first? When you sprinkle food with Sensa’s powders, the tastants travel through your nose to your nerve receptors in your brain and stimulate the feeling of satiety by triggering hormones.

The tastants come in two flavors per pack (each pack is the size and look of a box of dental floss!): salty and sweet. Sprinkle them on foods you eat and you’ll start to a feeling that you crave…less.

What do these “sprinkles” contain?

Sensa contains Maltodextrin (derived corn in the U.S.), tricalcium phosphate, silica, natural and artificial flavors, FD&C Yellow 5, and Carmine. It also contains soy and milk ingredients.

I have to say that I am very wary of putting anything in my food, especially if it’s something that is diet related. For one, I am vegan (okay, I cheat occasionally, especially when I see a great cheesecake!), and so the thought of sprinkling my food with this system seemed foreign to me.

But I ended up going through with my experiment, because I was determined to lose a few pounds. You sprinkle the tastant marked “salty” on salty foods, and the one marked “sweet” on sweet foods (they don’t actually taste salty or sweet per se).

I was faithful to do this for about two weeks, after which I just plain forgot or got a bit impatient. During that time, I lost five pounds and definitely felt less hungry than I normally did (the urge to nosh at three in the afternoon disappeared!). I know that in clinical studies have shown users to lose as much as 30 pounds in six months.

Now you can actually try it for free (yes, there’s a 30 day money-back guarantee), or you can use the promotional code RXL7 for 15% with your order. If you do use it, report back with the results!