Weight-loss Tip: Eat spicy foods. Spices such as cayenne pepper contains capsaicin, a compound that can boost metabolism and reduce your appetite slightly.

Weight-loss Tip: Avoid refined carbohydrates. Refined carbs are usually sugar or grains that’ve been stripped of their fibrous, nutritious parts, such as pasta.

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.