Getting into your summer wardrobe, just like moving house, tends to be one of those situations most people make plans for. For a month we are letting people know that we are going to start a low calorie diet. It might be you love your final final sausage roll and you prepare for the […]

The main summer diet information on this site contains virtually everything you need to know to effectively lose weight for a beach-ready body but there are a few handy diet tips for the summer that don’t neatly fit in anywhere else on this site - so I’ve lumped them all together here to make life a little easier for you - a collection of useful diet tips I’ve learned the hard way over the years.

The summer diet is clearly so-called because the hot, sunny weather is approaching rapidly. As the weather improves your baggy old jumpers and coats come off, hopefully not to return until fall.

In their place shorts, t-shirts and swimming gear start to appear and its often at this time of year you realize how much weight you’ve put on over winter.

Either that or you already knew but were glad of your thick winter clothes that hid your paunch.

Detoxing is the most wonderful experience - clearing your body of all the toxins and impurities that can fill your body during the cold, wet, dismal winter months of the year.

It is not only a physical process of toxin removal that makes your body stronger, purer, more able to resist sickness and looking more radiant than ever but is also a mental process.

One of the other articles on this site deals with suitable foods for your summer diet so lets take a closer look at your summer exercise plan.

Fortunately summer is by default the season with the best weather making exercise both easier and more pleasant.

No need to drag yourself down to the gym in the cold. No need to try and fit a game of tennis around the rain showers. No going out in the snow wearing your t-shirt and shorts (just the idea makes me think of school! I remember having to play football during a thunder storm once with a pitch black sky and lighting breaking over the field as we tore around soaked to the skin trying to keep warm!).

The principle of an effective diet is simple - a nutritional program that will help you take in less calories than you burn on a daily basis.

Added to this in an ideal world you will be able to lose weight without feeling at all ill, without feeling lethargic, hungry and while still being able to live a full, enjoyable life.

Indeed, if you are constantly starving yourself, saying no to the odd treat and avoiding social occasions you’re unlikely to keep up with your diet for long.

There are two problems with teens trying to lose weight.

The first of these is that teens live in a far more “junk food focused” environment than most adults.

School dinners often consist of fries, burgers, macaroni cheese, donuts and more.

Teens tend to love milkshakes, hot dogs, meeting at McDonalds after school and as they get older they start drinking alcohol.

Firstly as I’ve discussed in numerous other articles on this site it is entirely possible to have the odd “sinful” thing in your summer diet plan.

I don’t think you should have to give up all your treats or else life can become pretty sterile.

It’s a case of everything in moderation and many diet experts - and little old me - suggest having one day a week - or at the least one meal a week - where you let yourself go a little.

Dieting doesn’t have to be hard. No really, it doesn’t.

You see, you have two ways to start your diet for a slim summer.

The first is to ease into it slowly and gently. The other is to jump in with both feet and go at it hammer and tongs.

The best summer diet plan of all involves a simple, basic, easy to follow program.

The more complicated you make your summer diet plans the harder you’ll find them to stick to.

So first off let’s throw the calorie counting out of the window and instead just think of “portions”.