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Dont hide your insecurities under big clothes! We have compiled 12 simple ways to slim down in summer, and feel good inside and out...

Whats not to love about summer? Its the season of relaxing vacations and outdoor activities. You might have lazed around or eaten a lot of junk during the winters, but fortunately summer is here and its time to shed off those extra pounds you added over the winter. It is being noticed that people tend to lose more weight during summers. Remember a weight loss plan is made up of 80 % diet plan and 20 % workout plan. Therefore, you ought to control your diet. Eat a light dinner at night. Make sure that you eat your dinner at least 2 hours before you go to sleep. Weve got some no-fail tips for you to lose weight, and feel more confident in summers...

1. Go organic: The first diet tip is to cut down the food you eat and go organic, which means eating more salads, fruits, and vegetables. Avoid oil, butter, ghee, cheese, and other fattening dairy products. Switch to green tea, mint tea or lemon tea, any tea is fine as long as you do not add milk and sugar to it.

2. No water weight: As winter season is dry, some quantity of water is stored in body to prevent dehydration. This is also a reason why we gain more weight in winters than in summers. But in summers, body sweats a lot thus body lose weight. You can drink more water without fears and lose weight easily in summer.

3. Stay away from temptations: Get temptations out of the home or office. This will limit those emotional binging moments. Stock up with fruits, veggies, yogurt, and other. Making small changes will help you reach your goals. Instead of ice cream, go for frozen yogurt. Replace your potato chips with baked chips.

4. Banish bloating: Take a tip from brides-to-be by abstaining from bloating foods, like beans and artificial sweeteners, for the next two weeks. Learn more bloating foods to avoid here. You can also use your meals to fight bloating, so fill your plate with summer fruits like watermelon, pineapple, papaya and peaches.

5. Soup delight: Experts say that soup is a great appetite suppressant as it has combination of liquids and solids that bust hunger. Eating soup before meals can help lower total calorie intake by about 20%. You can make it your main meal too!

6. Sensible eating: A great way to start adjusting to healthy eating is to not go mad all at once. As opposed to eliminating foods, try substituting it instead. When it comes to rice and pasta, opt for brown versions, as they are higher in fibre. The same goes for bread - swap the white bread for some whole meal; it tastes so much better with less calories! Try to eat fruit in between your meals to stop snacking on food that arent helping your waistline!

7. Emotional eating: There are days when we just feel down and dont want to do anything but eat a tub of ice cream, devour a cake, or order a deep-dish pizza and watch our favourite movies. The key to dealing with emotional eating is to consciously take control of the situation. When youre just about to delve into whatever youve chosen, walk away and run a bath, paint your nails, or simply step outside, take a few deep breaths and ask yourself if you really want to eat it.

8. Ditch the juice: Fruit juice is a higher sugar, lower-nutrient version of its source - and it contains less fiber, too. Besides, plenty of the nutritional goodies in fruit are concentrated in the skins, which tend to be lost in juicing. If you want apple juice, eat the apple, and have a glass of water with it.

9. Change your coffee order: While coffee itself is no bad thing, the dairy and sugar that go into it can be real calorie traps. For the next few weeks, swap your usual latte for black coffee, green tea and herb tea. You may well find that after six weeks, the milky, frothy lattes you once adored have lost their allure... this is the brain retrain youre after: a change of mind to change your shape.

10. Say hello to homemade cooking: People think that if they go to the gym they can eat whatever they want. WRONG! If you seriously want to shape up for the summer, you need to say goodbye to fast food. When you eat out, many of the foods you are ingesting are cooked in butter or other fattening ingredients, which is exactly the stuff you want to stay away from. Therefore, your best bet is to prepare and cook your own food.

11. Get good sleep: Get into a routine that includes exercising, scheduling your meals and working on your sleep patterns, and try to avoid using your phone while in bed. If you sleep well, then the metabolism of your body will be good which will in turn help you to burn your extra calories faster.

12. Summer workouts: Naturally, summer heat itself burns body fats and calories at a higher rate. As you are easily losing weight you also tend to do workouts to make weight loss very effective. Opt for the best summer workouts to lose weight faster; sweat a lot, drink a lot and lose weight easily.

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For a baseline guide to the number of calories you need to eat each day, it may help to begin with a better understanding of your basal metabolic rate, or the number of calories your body burns to perform its ongoing essential functions.

Basal metabolic rate represents the number of calories needed to fuel your body to breathe, circulate blood and control body temperature. It does not include the calories needed for movement or digesting food, said Caitlin Bus, a licensed and registered dietitian, as well as a certified diabetes educator, who works at Renown Health. In other words, it is an estimate of how many calories you would burn in a day if you did nothing but lay still all day.

Given the fact most folks do more than that, it makes sense we need to consume enough calories to meet and exceed our basal metabolic rate and never dip below it. After all, the calories that make up this rate provide fuel for crucial functions.

Although reducing your calorie consumption and increasing your energy expenditure should promote weight loss, it is important not to reduce calorie intake below your basal metabolic rate, Bus said. Over-restricting calories can lead to a plateau in weight loss, as your body feels like it is being starved and reserves its current energy stores until food is ample again.

However, you can use your basal metabolic rate as a tool to guide you on the path toward healthy weight loss. To begin, you need to know how many calories your body needs simply to survive a number that can vary greatly from person to person and also over time.

Many factors influence a persons basal metabolic rate. They include age, body composition, gender and genetics. Growing children and young people burn more calories per pound of body weight because they are making bones, and increasing muscle mass and other cells, said Keiko Case, a licensed and registered dietitian with Northern Nevada Medical Center. As you get older, the metabolic rate decreases by two percent every decade, which is one of the contributing factors for middle-age weight gain.

Besides age, another factor that impacts basal metabolic rate is the amount of lean muscle mass you have more muscle mass requires more calories for basic maintenance, which is why men tend to have higher metabolic rates than women. To help combat the gradual decrease in basal metabolic rate that comes with age, it can help to engage in regular strength training to build and keep lean muscle mass.

Metabolic rate also increases as weight, height and surface area increase, Bus said. This means heavier people have a higher metabolic rate, as it takes more calories for daily functions such as breathing and controlling body temperature.

For a quick and easy estimate of your own essential caloric needs, find an online calculator for basal metabolic rate, where you will be asked to input your height, weight, age and gender. For a more accurate reading, seek out local fitness centers and medical clinics that offer assessments of basal or resting metabolic rate.

Once you have a better grip on how much fuel your body needs simply to survive, you can begin to tally the total number of calories you need for overall daily activities and to reach any weight-related goals.

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You might skip breakfast. At lunch, you may opt for a salad with lots of veggies, no croutons and low-fat dressing -- on the side, of course.

Then, three o'clock hits.

You're incredibly hungry and craving candy, sweets or chips. You finally cave, eating a candy bar or other treat.

By 6 p.m., you're tearing the kitchen apart, snacking on anything you see.

Despite your best efforts at cutting carbs at meals, you give in to a large helping of pasta or pizza. And then another. But you're still not satisfied. Dessert is calling, and you want something sweet, again. A scoop or two of ice cream satisfies you for the moment, but you continue to graze into the night until finally, you're so tired, you crash into bed.

So what is the cause of all of this diet drama that keeps occurring, almost according to schedule?

"I started noticing a common pattern where my patients were so good with restricting their calories during the day, but in the late afternoon and evening, they fell apart," said Tamara Duker Freuman, a nutritionist who has helped hundreds of people lose weight over the past decade on a meal-timing based plan she describes as the "circadian-synced diet."

"It was the ongoing grazing into the night. ... That's what kept undermining them. They often thought they were binge eaters ... but in reality, they were just really hungry.

"If they just ate a little more at breakfast and lunch, if they just added a few hundred extra calories in the morning, they would get their eating under control and lose weight," she said.

It's true that over-consuming calories at any time of day will result in weight gain. But skipping meals or eating too few calories earlier in the day appears to stack the odds against us. The result: Weight loss is hard to come by. In fact, more and more research points to the fact that when you front-load your calories instead, you have a much better chance of shedding pounds.

"What we have seen is that people on diets with the same number of calories who front-load calories to the earlier part of the day fare better in terms of subjective and objective measures of satiety," Freuman said. "They feel more satiated in evening, and there are actually differences in their hunger and satiety hormones ... and this seems to contribute to weight loss success."

One study involving 420 overweight and obese participants divided individuals into two groups: early eaters and late eaters, based on the timing of their lunch (i.e. before or after 3 p.m.). The late lunch eaters also ate lower-calorie breakfasts or skipped breakfast more often than early eaters.

The nutrient content of the meals was exactly the same for both groups, the only difference being that the breakfast and dinner meals were swapped. After 12 weeks, the big breakfast group lost about 2 times more weight than big dinner group (8.7 pounds for big breakfast group vs. 3.6 pounds for big dinner group) and lost over 4 more inches around their waist.

The big breakfast group experienced a 33% drop in triglyceride levels -- a marker associated with heart disease risk -- while the group that ate the higher-calorie dinner experienced a 14.6% increase. The bigger breakfast group also experienced greater reductions in fasting glucose, insulin and insulin resistance scores, all of which indicate decreased risk for type 2 diabetes, according to the study's authors.

So front-loading calories and carbohydrates is not only favorable in terms of weight loss, it had beneficial effects on other indicators of overall health, including decreased risk for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

That second study "opened my eyes," Freuman said. "It wasn't just that people were less hungry and eating less at night, but it pointed to the fact that there might be some sort of underlying metabolic magic going on, where the timing of calories and carbs mattered more than the total amount of calories and carbs eaten in a day. It helped me understand what I was intuitively seeing in my patients."

More and more research is suggesting that when you eat may be just as important as what you eat. And it is very closely tied to the complex science of circadian rhythms.

Circadian rhythms are driven by biological clocks inside our bodies. The brain has a master biological clock, influenced mainly by light, which tells "peripheral" clocks in the muscles and organs what time of day it is. Because of these clocks, many of the metabolic processes that take place inside us operate at different rates over the course of a 24-hour period.

"Because of circadian rhythms, there are variations in certain hormone levels, enzyme levels and glucose transporters at different parts of the day, which differentially affect how calories, carbohydrates and fat are metabolized," said Freuman, who presented case studies of patients who improved their weight and health by eating in sync with circadian rhythms at the New York State Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics annual meeting in May 2016.

Circadian rhythms can help explain why eating late at night increases the likelihood of weight gain and decreases the rate at which we lose weight, compared with eating earlier in the day.

For example, research suggests that the calories we burn from digesting, absorbing and metabolizing the nutrients in the food we eat -- known as diet-induced thermogenesis -- is influenced by our circadian system and is lower at 8 p.m. than 8 a.m., according to Frank A.J.L. Scheer, director of the Medical Chronobiology Program in the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Other metabolic processes involving insulin sensitivity and fat storage also operate according to circadian rhythms and can greatly influence the likelihood of weight gain or weight loss at different times of the day.

"These different metabolic processes ebb and flow at different times of the day, and they play a role in how your body metabolizes food energy, which ultimately affects your weight, cholesterol levels and blood sugar control -- and so it has tremendous implications for what is considered optimal times for eating," Freuman said.

Circadian rhythms may help explain why breakfast skipping is associated with increased risk of weight gain, even among those who consume comparable amounts of calories in a day.

"The link between breakfast skipping and obesity had once been thought to be due to overcompensation of calories at subsequent meals due to excess hunger ... but the research does not consistently show differences in total energy intake among breakfast-skippers," Freuman said.

"Something else about skipping breakfast -- aside from potentially eating more calories later in the day -- must explain the greater risk of weight gain among breakfast skippers," she said. A more likely answer: Eating more calories in the later part of the day is out of sync with metabolic circadian rhythms.

"We get less metabolically robust as we age," she explained. "So even if you've gotten away with skipping breakfast and eating out of sync in your 20s or 30s, it may eventually catch up with you."

Night shift workers can also benefit from eating in sync with their circadian rhythms. They may modify meal timing to sync up with metabolic circadian rhythms by eating breakfast at the end of their workday, at 7 or 8 a.m., and then eating their heaviest meal when they wake up, about 3 or 4 p.m.

Freuman discourages her night shift patients from eating during the night. "We don't want them eating many calories, so we'll have them sip on tea or have a Thermos of miso soup or, if need be, something small like an apple in order to minimize overnight calories.

"Your metabolism is working in a certain way, whether you are awake or asleep -- so even if you are awake during most of the night, you still want to be eating most of your calories during daylight. Sleep has little to do with it," Freuman said.

So how do we eat in sync with our circadian rhythms? They key is to front-load your calories and carbs. Freuman suggests the following, which she advises to her patients:

1. Don't skip breakfast

Ideally, breakfast should be satiating enough to preclude the need for a midmorning snack, and it should have a minimum of 300 calories, according to Freuman. It should always include high-fiber carbohydrates, which are more slowly digested than refined carbs, and it should include protein, which helps keep hunger in check.

Good breakfasts include a cup of cooked oatmeal with low-fat milk and a small handful of nuts, two slices of Ezekiel or whole-grain bread with mashed avocado and sliced tomato, or a two-egg omelet with veggies, fruit and a slice of whole-wheat toast.

If you are not hungry when you wake up, you can defer breakfast for a few hours -- but it should not be skipped, according to Freuman.

2. Have the "blue plate special" for lunch

"Lunch should be like that blue plate special ... the main meal of the day," Freuman said.

For a simple lunch strategy, Freuman suggests filling half of your plate with non-starchy vegetables and then dividing the second half into protein (like grilled fish or chicken) and slowly digested high-fiber carbohydrates (like beans or quinoa). "A salad with grilled chicken is fine, but try adding a baked sweet potato, a heaping scoop of chickpeas or even a thick, hearty lentil soup," she said.

If you prefer a sandwich for lunch, pair it with fiber-rich vegetables. "A turkey sandwich is part of a good lunch, but it's not a whole lunch." Try adding butternut squash soup or carrots with hummus.

Other good lunches that Freuman recommends include baked salmon with lentils and cooked green veggies or a Mexican quinoa bowl with quinoa, black beans, chicken, avocado and salsa, along with a pile of greens.

The easiest way to plan for lunch may be to use last night's leftovers. "I cook dinner at home and bring in my leftovers for lunch the next day. When I get home from work, I'm not tearing the house apart."

3. Pack a snack

An afternoon snack may be necessary if lunch and dinner are more than five hours apart. However, it should be no more than 200 calories, and it should be high in protein and fiber. "This will prevent you from arriving at dinner feeling 'starving,' " Freuman said.

Snacks that will satisfy include an apple with a tablespoon of peanut butter, grape tomatoes with string cheese, a hard-boiled egg or plain Greek yogurt with fruit.

4. Go low-carb for dinner

Dinner should be light and low in carbohydrates. "The more you can go low-carb for dinner, the more it will mitigate the effects of distorted calories at night," Freuman said.

Dinners might include fish and a cooked vegetable, lettuce-wrapped tacos or a turkey burger (minus the bun) and a salad with light dressing.

"I'll make turkey meatballs for my kids, and I'll give them pasta too, but I'll have mine on a bed of spinach -- and the next day, I'll bring the pasta for lunch."

And when dining out, Freuman suggests ordering two appetizers, like a salad and a shrimp cocktail or grilled calamari.

Lisa Drayer is a nutritionist, author and health journalist.

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Weight loss can be tied to when, not just what, you eat ...

A new study suggests using a mindfulness approach helps weight loss.

With obesity reaching epidemic proportions, mindful eating focusing just on what we are eating, not watching television, surfing the Internet, or reading has become a possible strategy for weight management.

The new study, presented at the 2017 European Congress on Obesity (ECO),investigated the relationship between mindful eating and weight loss.

It also examined the effectiveness of a program called Eat Smart, Move More, Weigh Less (ESMMWL) in increasing mindful eating. The program involves a weekly class with a live instructor that is streamed online, so participants can watch on their computers or mobile devices.

ESMMWL was developed by researchers at North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Division of Public Health. It employs the theory of planned behavior to help participants change behaviors that have been associated with weight management.

One of these behaviors is to increase mindful eating as measured by the Mindful Eating Questionnaire (MEQ), a 28-item questionnaire that assesses five domains of mindful eating, said the researchers, who were led by Dr. Carolyn Dunn.

Mindful eating includes paying attention to hunger and fullness cues, planning meals and snacks, eating as a singular activity as opposed to eating while doing other activities, and paying special attention to how food tastes.

Mindful eating may also include having just one or two bites of special higher calorie foods and savoring the flavor, researchers noted.

For the study, 80 participants were part of a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of ESMMWL, an online, 15-week weight management program. Participants enrolled in ESMMWL were asked if they would be willing to participate in the study. Willing participants were then randomly placed in the intervention group (42 people) or the wait list control group (38 people).

According to the studys findings, the 28 participants who completed the program lost more weight than participants in the wait list control group.

Mean weight loss for ESMMWL participants was 1.9 kg (about four pounds) compared to 0.3 kg (about .66 pounds) for participants in the wait list control group; a statistically significant result, according to the researchers.

Participants who completed ESMMWL also had a significantly larger increase in their mindfulness scores than those in the wait list control group, the researchers noted.

Results suggest that there is a beneficial association between mindful eating and weight loss, the researchers said. The current study contributes to the mindfulness literature as there are very few studies that employed rigorous methodology to examine the effectiveness of an intervention on mindful eating.

Source: European Association for the Study of Obesity

APA Reference Wood, J. (2017). Study Finds Mindfulness Aids Weight Loss. Psych Central. Retrieved on May 22, 2017, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2017/05/21/study-finds-mindfulness-aids-weight-loss/120804.html

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Obese people lost an average of 2st 6lb over 16 weeks, a study found, with experts suggesting the technique could be used as an alternative to drastic weight-loss surgery.

The Elipse Balloon is contained inside a capsule which is swallowed with a drink of water. The capsule is attached to a hollow plastic tube.

A doctor uses imaging to check the balloon is correctly in place before filling it up, via the tube, with almost a pint of water.

The tube is then detached and removed.

After 16 weeks, a valve disintegrates and the device is excreted safely by the body.

In the new study presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Porto, Portugal, the balloon was given to 42 obese people (29 men and 13 women).

They were typically aged 46, had a body mass index of 39 and weighed just over 17st on average.

After 16 weeks, typical weight loss per person was 2st 6lb and people lost more than 14pc of their total body weight.

The balloon, which costs around 4,000, is available in several countries around the world.

"The reaction of patients is incredible. They are very happy about the results they were able to achieve," said Dr Roberta Ienca, from the University of Rome, who led the study.

Work was also carried out with patients on changing their eating habits long-term, she said.

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When you make a choice to lose some weight, whether thats just for yourself or for a holiday goal, its great to know that you have awhole world of advice right at your fingertips. Its one of the most Googled phrases on the internet, as so many log on for ideas on how to quickly and effectively lose weight.

Magazines are always giving advice on how you can lose the pounds quickly and shrink those inches.

There are many hints and tips on the web to help you shed the weight as quickly and safely as you can, but its a choice on how you actually decide to embark on your weight loss plan. A lot of people like to start with a detox of sorts to get the initial weight off, then gradually introduce foods back in and build up their metabolism.

Ultimately, the choice is up to you how you decide to get the weight off, but weve put together lots of different ways you can get started:

Juicing. A detox of purely fruit and vegetable juicing is a very popular way to detox before a weight loss regime. They work well because your body is getting everything it needs while detoxing away from sugar, fat and other additives that can stick to your insides!

Military Diet. A diet that most havent heard of, the military diet is a combination of low calorie foods to help you lose weight successfully. Its going to help you lose the weight quickly on a three day on, four days off routine that allows you to keep your metabolism moving. You can check outthese great military substitution foods that can allow your body to keep going while burning away the pounds. Giving it a go can change your entire outlook!

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Shakes. Were not talking about vibration plates and shaking off the weight loss, but by replacing your meals with shakes instead of food. Shakes are full of minerals and vitamins that your diet needs for you to stay healthy, but allows you to lose the weight at the same time.

Intermittent Fasting. This one isnt the same as a weight loss starter like juicing, but intermittent fasting can do wonders for your health. Two days a week at five hundred calories, while the other five days are within a normal calorie range, your metabolism gets a massive kick!

Cabbage Soup. One of the least popular ways to kick off weight loss, the cabbage soup diet is one that starts you off with a week of, you guessed it, cabbage soup. Then you gently and slowly add in other foods and build your diet up again slowly until you can maintain your weight.

Kicking off your weight loss with a detox of sorts can help you go a long way to keeping the weight off. Detoxing your body of all the toxins youve ingested is a smart idea so that you can get into the right space for your new weight.

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Crinkly plates are creation of a graphic artist from the Art Academy of Latvia. Its ridges trick the mind into seeing less food as more. Photograph: Art Academy of Latvia/PA

A crinkly plate, designed with ridges that cunningly reduce the amount of food it holds, may be heading for the market to help people concerned about their weight to eat less.

The plate is the brainchild of a Latvian graphic designer, Nauris Cinovics, from the Art Academy of Latvia, who is working with a Latvian government agency to develop the idea and hopes to trial it soon. It may look like just another arty designer plate, but it is intended to play tricks with the mind.

My idea is to make food appear bigger than it is. If you make the plate three-dimensional [with the ridges and troughs] it actually looks like there is the same amount of food as on a normal plate but there is less of it, said Cinovics.

You are tricking the brain into thinking you are eating more.

The plate will be made of clear glass and could turn eating dinner into a more complex and longer process than it is usually for most of us. Negotiating the folds in the glass where pieces of fish or stray carrots may lurk will slow down the speed with which people get through their meal.

Cinovics has also designed heavy cutlery, with the idea of making eating more of a labour that therefore lasts longer. His knife, fork and spoon weigh 1.3kg each.

We tested this and it took 11 minutes to finish a meal with this cutlery rather than seven minutes, he said.

Our brain takes at least 20 minutes to receive the message that we should feel full, so if we eat really fast we think we need more food if we eat slowly the message gets through sooner so we eat less.

Cinovics unveiled his idea at the European Congress on Obesity in Porto, Portugal, where experts said they were interested in the notion.

This seems like a good idea, said Dr Paul Christiansen from the University of Liverpools school of psychology. If people think they have eaten a full plate of food they will feel more satisfied.

Many people think you have to finish the food on the plate. If you can satisfy the perception that they have a nice big portion on their plate, they will think they have eaten a full meal. If, on the other hand, you put a small portion on a big plate, they will think they are not satisfied by it and will want more.

For plate clearers if you can feed the perception that you have a reasonable amount of food here they may eat less.

Susan Jebb, professor of diet and population health at the Nuffield department of primary care health sciences, Oxford University, also thought the concept had possibilities. It is an interesting idea because it will reduce portion size and you can have a meal with other people and it looks like you have the right size plate, she said although she added that because a trial has not yet been carried out, there is no evidence as to how well it will work.

Professor Jane Ogden, professor in health psychology at the University of Surrey, thought it was an exciting possibility which could be very helpful.

There is lots of evidence that we eat for other reasons other than biological need it is about habit, it is about perception, it is about what we visually perceive, she said.

Anything that can manipulate any of that could well be an effective way of eating less. Of course we need to see some evidence that this works, but if you can tell your body that you are eating more than you actually are then you might eat less.

Professor Charles Spence, a behavioural psychologist at the University of Oxford who specialises in the perception of food and taste, said: This is a nice idea. There are a number of ways of tricking the eye, from use of smaller plates to make it look like there is more, through heavier bowls. The crinkle plate seems to provide much same impression though I do worry how you get the bits out that fall in crevices.

Slowing down is one thing, I am all for that though the danger is people might get irritated if they perceive it to be difficult.

He said his own research suggests a wavy shape is something most people associate with sweetness which in itself may help satisfy them.

More than 2.1 billion people 30% of the worlds population are obese or overweight, Cinovics pointed out in his poster presentation at the conference. There are many ways to reduce weight exercises, stress reduction, diets and others however, it has been little studied how tableware design can contribute to weight loss by changing eating habits.

He cites consumer psychologist Brian Wansink, a professor at Cornell University, and famous for inventing the concept mindless eating as his inspiration. Wansink and colleagues pioneered the idea of moving from a 12 inch plate to a 10 inch plate, which their research suggests causes people to serve themselves more than 20% less food. He is also credited with the concept of 100 calorie snack packs.

Crinkles may be unusual in dinner plates, but the idea of redesigning crockery and cutlery to trick our brains and our stomachs into believing less food is sufficient has been around for some time.

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The 46-year-old has just been announced as SlimFasts latest celebrity weight loss ambassador, having lost two stone (28lbs) on the SlimFast 3.2.1. Plan.

She follows in the footsteps of former ambassador Kimberly Walsh (who lost 7lbs with SlimFast after the birth of her first child in 2015) and current ambassador, Alexandra Burke, who has lost a total of 28lbs with SlimFast.

Claire said: Like so many other people out there the start of 2017 really was a promise to lose weight and get back to my ideal 10 stone. I knew I could get there - because Id been there before. Though admittedly that was well before I had become a mum.

In November 2016, Claire was performing in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. She had previously been in Hairspray and touring had taken its toll on her eating habits and figure.

She said: I was working long hours and often eating late at night and eating lots of the wrong foods.

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I was working long hours and often eating late at night and eating lots of the wrong foods.

We would often indulge in late night curries and whilst it was fun for a while I noticed the weight starting to creep up and that made me feel annoyed and frustrated with myself. I knew I was slipping into bad eating habits.

The actress revealed shes always struggled with her weight.

She said: You name a diet and Ive probably done it and got the T-shirt. I also know what you need to do to lose weight and get in shape but despite that knowledge and experience of achieving weight loss success its not that easy to find that positive mind set.

I love food. Its one of lifes biggest pleasures and denying yourself food, or god forbid starving yourself is just not something I can do. I suppose deep down I was missing the self-belief and focus I needed to get back to where I wanted to be.

Claire started following the SlimFast 3.2.1. Plan in February 2017 and in just over three months has lost 28lbs to regain her pre-baby figure. The plan promotes safe and healthy weight loss of 1-2lbs per week.

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She said: Id got complacent about my weight. By the end of the tour I weighed in at nearly 12 stone. I looked heavy and bloated. Not a good feeling when youre cavorting on stage in little more than a Basque and fishnet tights for most of the show! There is only so much a 5 foot 8-inch frame can hide.

I stocked up on SlimFast products and quickly worked out which were my favourite products and flavours. I love the new SlimFast Advanced Vitality Raspberry Crush shake at breakfast, the fortified formula and 26grams of protein make it a super filling kick-start for the day, or Ill have the SlimFast Banana ready-to-drink shakes or a SlimFast Nutty Salted Caramel meal replacement bar so quick and easy when Im on the go. I also like the SlimFast Sour Cream & Chive Pretzels to snack on. The SlimFast Noodle Pots and new SlimFast Porridge with Golden Syrup are delicious - theres lots to choose from.

It was easy, I was motivated and hugely encouraged by the immediate weight loss success I lost 9lbs. I was flying! Then my weight loss stalled a little. The show ended at the beginning of February and inevitably we celebrated and commiserated and all of that led to a few off plan weeks! However, I didnt beat myself up. I knew exactly what I needed to do and so I reached again for SlimFast and quickly felt back in control.

For Claire, it is really important that her son Jaxon sees her happy and healthy.

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She added: Claire adds: Becoming a mum was such a rewarding and hugely happy experience for me. I had always wanted children but the timings were never right. Eating well and looking after your body is an essential life lesson. SlimFast helps me stay healthy and nutritionally balanced whilst I lose my weight.

To date I have lost 28lbs and feel fantastic, I am getting back into my old wardrobe and feel like I have more energy and strength than I ever had before.

Claire hopes that her success will help to inspire, resonate and motivate women who want to lick-start their weight loss this summer.

She is currently gearing up for lead guest entertainment roles with P&O, Lytham Festival and an exciting TV project in the pipeline.

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