Summer Diet Traps

Many of us welcome summer as a time of healthy eating. We intend to lose weight easily due to all those salads that will be on the menu. For a start, salads are not always as healthy as you might think. What about all that mayo you'll be eating along with your coleslaw and potato salad? It is really high in fat unless you choose the low-fat variety. Or you could replace the mayo entirely with your choice of low-fat yoghurt. Because the weather is hot, we'll drink plenty of fluids and that will fill us up, so we don't want to eat quite as much, saving weight gain in yet another way. But be careful; you could fall into a summer diet trap.

For a start, salads are not always as healthy as you might think. What about all that mayo you'll be eating along with your coleslaw and potato salad? It is really high in fat unless you choose the low-fat variety. Or you could replace the mayo entirely with your choice of low-fat yoghurt.

Hot weather is also the time when you can enjoy a refreshing fruit salad for desert - but that is often topped with a big dollop of cream or ice cream. So be sure to get the low-fat variety in this treat also - and limit the number of spoonfuls you put on your fruit salad. You could even replace it with yoghurt. And if you choose the fruit salad with natural juice instead of syrup you'll soon find that summer truly is the time to lose weight easily.

Make drinking water a habit by always having bottled spring water available - Tranquil Water (http://www.tranquilwater.com.au) for example provides bottled water delivery to Sydney and surrounds.