Diet Advice

Giving diet advice is difficult. I'm usually reluctant to go into details even though I have relevant experience because there was a time when I weighed 50 pounds more than I do now.

Bookstalls and the web are full of diet advice with many, many tips - the 10 best tips, 15 best, 100 best.

From me the first tip, and only tip today is:

• if the center-piece of your meal is a protein, whether meat, fish or shellfish, then NO carbohydrate. By no carbohydrate I mean not letting french fries, mash (in fact potatoes of any kind), no pasta of any form, no grains of any variety, onto your plate.

So what does go with the protein ?

Vegetables of any and all kinds. The more colorful and flavorful the better.

That's my first, but probably not the last, diet tip.

A few of the more interesting diet tips from the Internet:

• 10 real life diet tips


• 13 tips from the Diet Detective


• 10 unconventional diet tips


• WebMDs 17 best foods for dieters


• Podcast with 24 diet tips