1) Be careful with salad toppings, especially when you eat out. You might think that salad is a healthy choice, but if it is sprinkled with blue cheese, croutons, bacon bits, dried fruit etc, it could be a catastrophic choice for your waistline! Ask your server to half the amount of toppings, and dressing, on your salad to lower the calorie count substantially.

2) Eat more fibre. Recent research showed that those who doubled the amount of fibre in their diets naturally consumed about 100 calories less a day. Fibre fills you up, and helps your digestive system, so try to up the amount you are eating.

3) Replace cream with yoghurt when cooking. Many recipes that call for cream taste just as good when you use yoghurt instead, and doing so will save you many calories.

 4) If you do order a soda at a chain restaurant, make it a kiddie size one. Although it would be better just to ask for water, if you do desperately need that cola or juice, anti supersize it to lower the number of liquid calories you’ll consume.

5) Swap your burger for veggie burger. Most veggie burgers have 100 calories fewer than a regular hamburger.

6) Make your omelet with egg whites. By only using the egg whites to make a 2 egg omelet, you’ll save about 100 calories. (You could use 1 yolk and 2 whites, this still saves you 50 calories.)

7) Use salsa instead of butter to season all kids of foods. You can pour salsa, which can be virtually fat free (check the label), to pour over fish or baked potatoes as a delicious seasoning.

8) Make lower fat tuna sandwiches by nixing mayo in favour of mustard. It may be a bit more of an acquired taste, but mixing up your tuna with mustard adds hardly any calories.

9) Forget about eating bagels. Bagels are dense and can be pretty high in calories, you are much better off eating 2 slices of whole-wheat toast.

10) Try balsamic vinegar instead of salad dressing. It tastes great and has only 10 calories per tablespoon.