This article has some excellent advice. One thing I would add is about the importance for avoiding processed food when you can and why. Not all calories are e

This article has some excellent advice. One thing I would add is about the importance for avoiding processed food when you can and why. Not all calories are equal and basically it's about if your body can absorb them or not. To borrow an example from Gerald Yeo[1] if you eat 400g of sweetcorn a large amount of it will turn up undigested in your poo. i.e. It's just passing through you and not making you fat. If you process that corn though, by grinding it up and making something like bread out of it, it will become much more easily absorbed by the gut. The calorie count will be the same on each packet but one case is clearly being used by the body and the other is not. Also, processing foods thends to strips them of flavour, so to compensate manufacturers will often compensate for that by adding in more salt, sugar and fat to get closer to that "bliss" point mentioned in the article. For the same absorption reason I personally try to avoid liquid calories where ever possible. e.g. no milk in coffee, keep the beers and wine to a minimum, etc. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5BE49fCRqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5BE49fCRqo