Thirty Days To A Slimmer You

Anna Richardson followed some extreme diets in an effort to lose weight, including the apple diet, during which she ate only apples.

After weeks of horrible diets, she talks to an expert.

Here The great weight race: Which extreme weight-loss methods really work? | the Daily Mail she says:

"I then travel into central London to do an interview with someone sensible - Professor Tony Moffat of the London School of Pharmacy.

He has analysed more than ten different slimming products which the programme makers have bought over the counter, and despite the myriad claims, they all generally do one of four things: have a bulking effect (to make you feel full); a laxative effect; a diuretic effect; or act as a stimulant/appetite suppressant.

When I ask Tony what really works, his answer is simple: eat a healthy, balanced diet and move your body a bit more. Boring but true."

So if you're thinking of trying yet another fad diet - don't. Eat well, and exercise.

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If you're on a weight loss diet, one of the best tools you can use is a food journal. You simply enter everything you eat into the journal, and over time, your journal helps you to become more aware of your eating habits.

However, keeping a food journal is difficult. You need to carry it with you. Sometimes you won't have your journal handy. At other times, you're too busy and forget to write down that cookie or that soda.

Tweetwhatyoueat to the rescue.

You simply join the Twitter service, if you haven't done it already, and friend TWYE.

From the site :

"How does it work?
Tweetwhatyoueat is a Twitter user just like you! On Twitter, the web app Tweetwhatyoueat.com is the user 'TWYE.' The magic behind this site works the following way:

You make friends with 'TWYE' through Twitter. Simply tweet or twit 'follow twye.'
'TWYE' then makes friends with you. In order for that to happen, you must follow the setup steps.
You then send direct messages to TWYE with food items you’ve eaten like this, 'd twye yogurt cup.'
Tweetwhatyoueat.com checks the direct messages going to the TWYE account at regular intervals and parses and stores the contents and displays them in your diary."

This is a private service - no one else sees your tweets to TWYE.

Try it - it solves the journal hassle.

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When you're on a diet, milk products are often the first items you drop from your new eating plan.

If you love milk, the sacrifice may not be necessary.

Fat-fighting farmers ditch the welly belly with dairy diet reports on four dairy farmers who followed a milky diet: "The Calon Wen farmers swapped their usual winter warmer diet for organic milk and yogurt with plenty of fruit and vegetables for a month whilst competing in their very own dairy diet challenge.

Before and after pictures show their dramatic weight loss, with the group having lost 4 st 10 lbs between them. Their efforts were judged by the diet’s author, top nutritionist Monica Grenfell, who is an expert in diet and weight loss. "

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