It’s round about this time of year that I, and perhaps you, start to feel as if it’s time to lose some weight before Christmas. But with winter well set in, exercise seems an unattractive option, motivation may be low and we just want to keep warm and – possibly – comfort eat.

Yet, knowing what’s in store over the forthcoming festive season – parties and possible excesses – it makes sense to try and lose a few pounds before Christmas so that the impact isn’t too serious.

There are plenty of calorie-counting and crash diets available to help you lose weight fast, but quite apart from them being unhealthy, and even potentially dangerous, long-term they don’t work, because the weight and fat you lose will always come back (and usually more) when you stop the diet.

What is needed is a new and healthy approach to losing weight.

So I am pleased to recommend to you “The Diet Solution”, a program devised by certified nutritionist Isabel De Los Rios.  It incorporates all the principles I learned on my 3-year nutrition course and, if I’m honest, some updated material! Yes, you could probably research the material yourself, but you’d have trouble sorting the wheat from the chaff, and could waste an awful lot of time.

If you’re looking to lose weight quickly, Isabel brings everything together in one easy-to-use package so you don’t need to waste time preparing your own charts

You can watch a video explaining the principles on which her diet is based in the top right hand corner of my healthy weight loss site. There’s a special offer on at the time of writing, but I can’t guarantee how long that will be available.

Here’s “food for thought” (sorry for the appalling pun) in an article in “Scientific American” – and some interesting comments by readers. Click on the link below to read the story.

Does eating fewer calories improve the brain?

What do you think? Please leave your comments here.

Weight loss

Nutritionist Patrick Holford

• Do you want to lose weight quickly and keep it off?
• Feel full and bursting with energy?
• Slow down the ageing process
• Improve your mood and memory
• Lower your cholesterol without drugs
• Cut your cancer risk
• Prevent and reverse diabetes and heart disease?

The good news is you can find out how to achieve all of this with nutrition expert Patrick Holford – author of the best selling Optimum Nutrition Bible – who will be touring the UK from 20th April to 1st May 2009 to explain how a low glycaemic load (GL) diet can help you master your weight and improve your health.

Patrick is a great speaker and one of the UK’s leading nutritionists. I am proud to have numbered him amongst my lecturers when I trained at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition.

The tour takes in Bristol, Totnes, Bournemouth, Brighton, Guildford, London, Leeds, Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin and Manchester.

We have arranged for you to save £3 on the normal ticket price of £15. To book click here and quote GLRSO when asked for a promotion code.

Click above to learn more and book your place