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: 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.

Weight-loss Tip: Make time fly while you’re exercising by listening to a playlist of fun music with a fast beat.