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The theory behind The Little Book of Calorie Burning is that you can eat what you like so long as you burn off the calories afterwards. However, if you exclude whole food groups (such as carbs, proteins or fats), you will soon start to show signs of deficiencies. These may be in the form of little white spots on your nails, clumps of hair on your pillow in the morning, frequent stinking colds, or just feeling tired all the time. Healthy people are way more attractive than sickly ones, so make sure you eat a wide range of fruit and veg, proteins and fibre, plus healthy fats (found in oily fish, nuts and seeds, avocados, olive oil) if you want to look and feel sensational.

You can calculate your ideal weight using the BMI formula worked backwards.

In other words, if you are now 80 kilos and your height is 1.66 metres, your BMI will be 29 (see formula on page 13). Now multiply 24 – a healthy BMI – by your height multiplied by itself, i.e. 24 × (1.66 × 1.66) = 66.13. The resulting figure of 66 kilos is your ideal weight, meaning you have 14 kilos to lose. Allow yourself up to a year to achieve this – based on the rate of no more than 10 per cent weight loss in six months – and you should be able to keep the weight off for good.