Don’t crash

Fatty or restrictive diets have loads of drawbacks; inevitably they reduce your muscle mass and water content as well as your body fat. The classic crash diet actually affects your metabolism that means as soon as you go off the diet you put all the weight back on that you lost (and typically even more!). Limiting what you eat to a few foods such as cabbage, grapefruit or meal replacement shakes can also be unhealthy as you are restricting your nutritional intake.

The trick to sustainable weight loss is to combine a healthy approach to eating with exercise.

Dig out your running shoes, grab your iPod

Exercise helps you burn calories, increase your lean muscle and body tone, and raise your metabolic rate. Which will help you to lose weight, improve your appearance, reduce stress, and improve your overall health. So dig out those running shoes.

What about the eating bit? Throw away those diet books and stop counting points or calories. The trick to healthy weight loss is to balance blood sugar levels and to manage your portion sizes.