Weight-loss Tip: Let your toast or baked potato slightly cool before buttering so that it absorbs less butter.

Weight-loss Tip: If you’re sampling food a lot, eat less for lunch or dinner. The calories from those little tastes you take while cooking can really add up.

Weight-loss Tip: Outsmart your hunger hormone. Eat small, balanced meals about every three hours or so.

Weight-loss Tip: Start with soup. People who eat a low-calorie vegetable soup before a meal consum 20 per cent fewer calories during the meal.

Weight-loss Tip: Give yourself at least 90 minutes to end your meal before you plan to go to sleep.