The trick, though, is to eat the right sort of snacks. Avoid chocolate bars, crisps, and even those "healthy" cereal bars. There are too many calories, fat and sugar in them. You should snack on fruit (yes, more of the stuff!), vegetables like celery, carrots, dried fruit, unsalted rice cakes, Ice cubes made from fruit juice, oatcakes, Unsalted or unsweetened popcorn or frozen lower fat yoghurt, for example. You can even put a piece of fruit in some lower fat yoghurt, if you wish. Apart from the fact that you will be avoiding building up a big hunger that you will want to satisfy, snacking on healthy foods maintains a regular blood glucose level and also keeps your metabolism elevated a little. Good news all around!

Begin to develop an exercise pattern - but keeping it simple is best! Do you want to know a secret? My first effort at ding exercise involved me doing no more than going for a walk around the block! And I'm talking only a very small block that took me about ten minutes to complete at a very easy pace! My point is that you should commence an easy and "doable" exercise programme. Forget about pounding the streets at 6am for a five-mile run or going to the gym for a blistering 60 minute workout. Just do something active that you like.