Dieting Tips

Follow these "Change Your Life" tips to lose weight, improve your nutrition and help stay slim forever.

1. Set multiple goals: Instead of setting an intimidating, unrealistic goal like "I will lose 3 stone by next month," set small, achievable goals like, "I will lose from 2 to 5 pounds this month by following my plan and exercising."

2. Re-set your goals: Each time you achieve your goal, give yourself a (non-food!) reward like a massage or tickets to your favourite team's next game, and then set another goal.

3. Step by step: Each week, change one food habit to a healthier one. Do this every week. For example, this week change from 3 sugars in your tea to 1 ½ . Next week cut down to ½ and then cut it out completely the following week.

4. Your diet: Dieting doesn't end when you lose all the weight you want to lose. Your diet is what keeps you slim, and needs to be healthy, so make lifestyle changes rather than short-term ones.

5. Don't be fooled: Read nutrition labels, and ignore the pretty pictures. Just because there's a picture of fruit on the package doesn't mean there is fruit in the package. Some examples of this misleading packaging are fruit drinks and fruit yoghurts.