Fried foods should be avoided like the plague and even when they are not oily on the outside there is still oil hidden inside the food.

Chocolate should not be included in your diet due to the large amount of sugar they contain.

Do not skip meals. The worst things you can do while watching you diet is skip a meal. It has just the opposite effect of what you want. You need to have at least four regular meals every day.

Keep to a vegetarian diet as much as you can. Make a non- vegetarian diet a week end event if you find it impossible to totally give up meat.

It’s always best to have breakfast within an hour of waking so that your body can charge itself with the energy it needs for the day. The idea is not to wait for your self to get really hungry. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day but that does not mean that it should be the most filling meal of the day.

Control that sweet tooth. Remember that sweet things mean more calories and therefore more exercise to burn it off.

Try to avoid canned vegetables and opt instead for fresh instead. Eat raw vegetables more than cooked as cooking removes more than 50% of the vitamins and minerals they contain.

Variety in what you eat is important so choose a variety of foods from each food group each day.

Instead of 3 large meals eat 4 to 6 small meals a day. It revs up your metabolism as well as having smaller quantities of food

Eat your meals at around the same time every day to avoid feeling hungry at certain times which can make you eat more.

Do not eat just to eat, eat if you are hungry and when you are offered food just eat less of it or decline it altogether.

Avoid snacks or snack on vegetables, low sugar or low fat items in between meals.

Never eat more than 1 egg a day. Eggs are not such a bright idea. It would be best to reduce your intake of eggs to maybe three in a week. But for those of you die hard egg fans, you may have up to one egg a day but nothing more than that.

Avoid drinking alcohol and beer as they can be fattening as well as reduce your will power to maintain your diet.

Avoid eating red meat as it is harder to digest, is full of chemicals, growth hormone, antibiotics and more as well as a high fat content. Eat more fish (especially salmon which contains Omega 3 fatty acids) and turkey.

Try to use unsweetened items or with a sugar substitute. Even though they still taste sweet they do not have the amount of calories as sugar does.

Needless to say it is important to limit your fat consumption. Most products today will tell you how much fat they contain right on the label. In order to calculate the amount of calories from fat just multiply the fat grams by 9 and that tells you the amount of calories. You should not get any more that 30% of your calories from fat.

Boil your vegetables instead of cooking them, or even better, eat them fresh. However if you do not like eating your vegetables as it is, try steaming them without adding anything at all. This is probably the healthiest way to eat cabbages, cauliflowers and a host of other vegetables.

Dry wine is better than sweet wine. Sweet wines naturally contain a lot of sugar. But on the other hand, in dry wines most of this sugar has been fermented away so from the weight point of view dry wines are better than sweet wines.

Develop a habit of chewing all food including liquid food and soft foods like sweets, ice creams at least 15 to 20 times. This is essential to add saliva to the food, as it is only in the saliva that sugar is digested.

Try low and no fat substitutes for some of the foods you eat. Supermarkets now carry a wide variety of these no and low fat substitute so they are no longer than difficult to find.

Use a non stick frying pan for your cooking so that you do not have to add oil. The golden rule is to try and avoid as much oil as possible and a non stick pan is the perfect solution to this problem.

Keith Junor writes a blog with great tips on fat loss, wellness and longevity at www.behealthyandslim.com

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