How 2 lose weight sensibly

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Ditch the crash diets: you’ll only gain weight when you come off them. Your aim is consistency. Once you’ve cracked this, everything falls into place.
Eat breakfast within an hour of waking, even if it’s just a pot of yoghurt. Eating first thing kick-starts your metabolism.
Eat little and often. Don’t starve yourself with long, hunger-filled gaps between food.
Balance complex carbohydrates with protein, ideally at a ratio of about 2:1.
Have a blow-out meal once a week. It stops you feeling deprived and mutinous.
Cut down on caffeine. It boosts adrenaline which overrides the body’s need for food and confuses the digestive system.
Make weekends and Wednesdays your allocated drinking days. It’s a relatively painless way of reducing alcohol intake – you’re never more than two days away from an evening glass.
If you can’t resist a pudding, share it, or just take a few spoonfuls

Source: The Sunday Telegraph.
Quoted in ‘The Week’, 5 January 2008.