weight loss

1 Detox diet: Get your eating habits back on track
With the excess of food and alcohol that it involves, the holiday season can be detrimental to health, beauty and well-being. So January is the perfect time to embark on a detox, which helps...
2 Getting your figure back after the summer
Even if you spent the run-up to the summer focused on your personal 'operation bikini', the chances are you've returned to the fray only to find you've brought back a few extra kilos along with the...
3 Making the most of time at the gym
Old habits die hard and even when we've given up the academic life for good, September feels like a time for new beginnings. After the excesses of summer we're determined to start new diets and exercise...
4 Skating: wheely good exercise!
The summer's beginning to wind down, but there should still be time to get in some outdoor exercise, and skating – with either in-line or quad skates – is both healthy and good fun, as well...
5 Keeping your figure over the summer
In the run up to the summer, we're all hard at work trying to shake off those extra kilos so we can do justice to our new bikinis. But once the holidays actually start, it's all too easy to let the discipline...
6 Get ready, get set... but just don't forget to warm up!
With summer just around the corner, many of us have suddenly realised it's time to start a new keep-fit routine in a hasty attempt to shed those unwanted winter kilos. There's no doubt this is a good...
7 Weight loss know-how
Diets and weight-loss are big business, and all of a sudden this nutrition plan or that fitness-and-health regime becomes the focus of media attention. For those of us who seem to spend our whole lives...
8 A question of constancy
When we talk about an exercise routine we tend to focus on the word 'exercise' rather than on 'routine'. But it's precisely the routine element – i.e. the regularity and constancy – that's...
9 Do it right: dieting
There's still some time to go before summer is with us and we want to flaunt our figures in strappy tops and swimsuits. But, as the days get longer and the warm weather approaches, for lots of us it's...
10 Don't put the weight back on
First of all, if you've slimmed down to your target weight, congratulations! Dieting is tough, and if you've struggled to get there, it would be a real shame to see the kilos creep back on again. Most...
11 The time is right... to start a diet
Dieting is tough enough at any time, so don't make it even harder for yourself by choosing a particularly difficult time to start. Whatever form of diet you choose, once you get into the habit, it all...
12 Change how, not what, you eat to get in shape
Catherine Zeta-Jones has been looking particularly slender recently – which isn’t surprising considering the work involved in her Tony award-winning role in Broadway’s A Little Night...
13 Supermodel Naomi Campbell reveals her bitter-sweet diet
Appearing on Oprah Winfrey's show recently, British beauty Naomi Campbell revealed she relies on a detox diet several times a year, saying 'it’s good to clean out your body once in a while'....
14 Hollywood's hottest slimming tips: get in shape with the stars
How the stars stay in shape
15 Vanessa Feltz loses two stone in three months – with the help of seaweed
Talking to Vanessa Feltz about her fitness regime recently, we were shocked to learn the presenter and radio host has lost two stone in three months – and she’s crediting a diet aid made from...
16 Diets and healthy weight: Laugh your way to weight loss
What better excuse do you need to relax in front of the TV tonight? Stick on your Friends DVDs, because research from Nashville, Tennessee published in the International Journal of Obesity shows that 15...