Weight-loss Tip: Keeping healthy food close by can help prevent you from eating something unhealthy if you become hungry.

Weight-loss Tip: By lifting weights, you will burn a few calories and prevent your metabolism from slowing down, which is a common side effect of losing weight.

Weight-loss Tip: A diet based on meat and veg contains all the fibre, vitamins and minerals you need to be healthy. There is no physiological need for grains.

Weight-loss Tip: A study has shown that drinking water a half hour before meals increased weight loss by 44 per cent over three months.

Weight-loss Tip: Use smaller plates. Studies show that people automatically eat less when they use smaller plates or bowls.