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.

Weight-loss Tip: Planning meals and snacks works wonders to head off the intense hunger that can do a number on your best intentions to eat right.

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.