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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.

Eat 5 to 6 small meals a day instead of three large meals. It is an excellent way of having smaller quantities of food.

Try to have food at fixed times of the day. You can stretch these times by half an hour, but anything more than that is going to affect your eating pattern, the result will either be a loss of appetite or that famished feeling which will make you stuff yourself.

Sometimes we think we are hungry but are only thirsty. Eat only when hungry and try to eat less or drink some water instead.

Snack on vegetables if you must. You might get the pangs of hunger in between meals. It is something that you can very well control.

Eggs have a high level of cholesterol and should be limited to no more than 3 servings per week and only 1 a day.

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

Choose white meat rather than red which includes fish and fowl, is better than red meat, which includes beef and pork for those trying to lose weight.

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.

Limit the amount of fat you get in your diet. The amount of calories from fat should be no more than 30% of the total calories you eat per day. Figure out the amount of calories from fat by multiplying the grams of fat on the label by 9.

Try to eat uncooked fresh vegetables more than cooked or canned. If you must cook them then steam them rather tan boiling as boiling takes away more than half of the nutrients in the veggies.

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.

Choose low fat substitutes or no fat substitutes. There are plenty of low fat or even no fat substitutes available in the market so why not choose wisely.

One way to lower the amount of oil you ingest is to cook with a non stick pan so you do not have to add any or less oil as possible when frying.

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