Weight-loss Tip: Fresh vegetables are better than cooked or canned vegetables. Try to eat your vegetables raw.

Weight-loss Tip: Do not skip meals. The worst thing you can do while watching your diet is skip a meal. It has just the opposite effect of what you want.

Weight-loss Tip: Daily servings of beans, peas, chickpeas or lentils will keep you fuller for longer and promote long-term weight loss.

Weight-loss Tip: Use a printed out calendar to track your good and bad days. Use this to motivate you to improve and keep going.

Weight-loss Tip: Drink a cup of green tea each day. It contains catechins and caffeine which work together to enhance fat burning.