My worst snacking times are evenings and weekends: I’m at home, I’ve got time on my hands, and food on my mind… even though I might have just eaten dinner.
If you’re tempted to carry on picking even when full – and who can honestly say they aren’t, especially if there’s delicious leftovers sitting in the […]

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I’m indecisive at the best of times, and buffets – with all their tempting options – can often spell dieting doom. Like many office workers, I occasionally get a free lunch to compensate for sitting through a day-long boring meeting, and I’m learning not to treat this as an excuse to indulge too much.
My tips […]

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We all know that we should eat more fruit and vegetables, but this can be difficult to manage during a busy working week. A typical day’s menu might be cereal for breakfast, a sandwich and a packet of crisps for lunch, and pizza or fish and chips from the local takeaway for dinner. It’s quite […]

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Have you established any new habits yet this year? If you started on January 1st, you’re hopefully well on your way by now.
Dieting and exercise are much easier when they’re a natural part of life. My boyfriend’s been making a real effort to eat five portions of fruit and veg a day, this year: he’s […]

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In the past, I often blamed other people for my lack of dieting success. If only I could have a perfect week – or even a perfect day – free from their influence. But dieting downfall came in varied, tasty forms:

My granny’s baking
Meals out with friends
Someone’s birthday in the office
An unexpected invitation to coffee (with […]

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It’s easy to come to the end of a day, or week, and think back over what went wrong. Sometimes we’re encouraged to take stock of our mistakes, in the hopes this will spur us to greater efforts over the next days and weeks.
But it can be profoundly discouraging to constantly focus on things that […]

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