Weight-loss Tip: Outsmart your hunger hormone. Eat small, balanced meals about every three hours or so.

Weight-loss Tip: Start with soup. People who eat a low-calorie vegetable soup before a meal consum 20 per cent fewer calories during the meal.

Weight-loss Tip: Give yourself at least 90 minutes to end your meal before you plan to go to sleep.

Weight-loss Tip: Choose a variety of foods from all food groups every day. This is a fine way of keeping deficiency diseases at bay.

Weight-loss Tip: Planning meals and snacks works wonders to head off the intense hunger that can do a number on your best intentions to eat right.

Weight-loss Tip: Be realistic. Jump-start your weight-loss program in ways that make sense, and not only will you be thinner, you’ll be happier, too.