Use weekly weigh ins. If you’re weigh yourself every day all that happens is that you see fluctuations that have no rhyme or reason and end up in a depressive cycle of weighing and sporadic dieting which leads nowhere! The solution then is simple, set yourself a day each week when you weigh in and [...]

Dieting is as much of a discipline as any sport or job skill, it takes constant effort and targets to stay on top, and only once you’ve been going for a while does it become easier and more enjoyable. Therefore, especially in the early stages of dieting you’ve got to make sure that you set [...]

There a host of different schools of thought on this point but I’m firmly in the camp of daily weighing – it gives you daily results on your progress, and you learn about how your body responds to different foods, times of eating and exercise. That means you can get used to weight variation patterns [...]

Life isn’t all about being strict with what you eat and when you eat it, it’s about the relationships we have with people and the time we share. Therefore it’s really important that we don’t allow dieting to get in the way of those moments – don’t let wanting to lose weight stop you going [...]