Weight-loss Tip: Choose your dinner partner carefully. If you’re eating with a health-conscious person, you’re likely to order something more nutritious as well.

Weight-loss Tip: Use small plates. Research shows that you’ll eat less off small plates because you’ll think you ate more.

Weight-loss Tip: Keep a food journal. Keeping track of everything you eat and drink holds you accountable.

Weight-loss Tip: Be realistic. Jump-start your weight-loss program in ways that make sense, and not only will you be thinner, you’ll be happier, too.

Weight-loss Tip: Water is one of the easiest ways to speed up weight loss. Your body needs water in order to efficiently metabolise stored fat.