Six Great Fat Loss Tips that are guaranteed to help you fit into that Little Black Dress!

Everyone has tried to lose weight in the past, and most of us have either failed miserably, or life just simply got in the way of our plans. There are many diets as well as exercises out there that will help you to lose weight.

But when it comes to losing weight, we all want something simple that will not make us bend over backwards. Here are more than a few, six to be exact fat loss tips that will help you get to where you want to be!

1. There need to be some minute changes in your diet at first. Get rid of that daily fat and salt intake. Salt can retain water, and keep you from losing weight, while fat just adds onto your weight, cutting down on these will help reduce the extra weight you already have on!

2. Exercising in the morning is going to give your metabolism that kick that it needs to help you burn calories while you run around throughout your day. Instead of exercising in the afternoon or after work, take a shot at waking up an hour earlier, not only will you give your metabolism a jump start, you will get a huge energy burst as well!

3. It is proven that water can help to flush out your fat, and clean out your system. So make sure that you are drinking about 8 glasses of water throughout the day. Carry a water bottle around wherever you go. This is known to be one of the best fat loss tips, and people simply look over it!

4. Protein is one of the best ways to help you lose weight. This will help to get muscle to replace the fat that you are trying to lose. You can eat eggs in the morning, apples for a snack, and a protein shake in the morning if you would like!

5. Try to keep from eating larger meals towards the end of the day. If you are planning on eating a large meal, instead of your 6 smaller meals, then eat it for breakfast or lunch. This will allow you to enjoy your meal, but still burn off some of those extra calories you ingested. Your dinner should have the fewest amounts of calories, so that food is not sitting in your stomach throughout the night.

6. And the last of the fat loss tips that will help you lose that weight you have always wanted to lose is setting your goals, and taking the steps to accomplishing those goals! Give yourself little mini rewards along the way after you accomplish a goal. If you lose 5 pounds, go by a new shirt or blouse. Make sure you are rewarding yourself for your hard work! 

//A survey by M&S reveals that 6 million of us keep our little black dresses for over 12 years. If you're dying to fit back into your favourite LBD again, try our emergency 10-day diet to help you lose 10 pounds and feel like Audrey Hepburn in this iconic picture from 1961 film, Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Originally devised for people who need to lose weight for health reasons, this no-alcohol Little Black Dress Diet helps you lose weight quickly using food combinations (eg you can't mix protein and carbohydrates) to help you quickly look great in that LBD.

What is the Little Black Dress Diet?

It's a 10-day plan devised by nutritional consultant Michael van Straten for people who need to lose weight quickly for health reasons. But he admits there's no reason why you shouldn't use it now and again for an emergency Little Black Dress moment. Followed religiously, you could lose up to 10lb in 10 days!

How does it work?

The LBD diet is loosely based on the idea of food combining. The basic idea is that you don't mix protein and carbohydrates, or starch, in any meal. Some experts believe this helps our body digest food easily and so avoids weight gain. As well as following the meal plans, you're advised to take certain vitamins and herbal tonics to boost your immunity. You're also told to avoid alcohol which in itself will probably help you lose weight.Anyone who wants to lose a lot of weight quickly. People who enjoy cooking meals from scratch.

What are the drawbacks?

The first three days are extremely low-calorie so you might find these
hard going. Several of the meals are quite time consuming to make. All
the ingredients are of a high quality so this plan could be expensive.

What do you do?

Follow the meal plans as accurately as possible. Each day, there's
breakfast plus one light meal or snack and one main meal.
If you're out during the day, there are packed lunch options to choose
from although take care to eat either protein or starch based lunches.
The menus below will give you an idea.

As well as the food, make sure that you take 3 tsp a day of the Swiss
herbal tonic Bio-Strath elixir to boost your natural immunity and 1
Genesis vitamin and mineral pill. Drink an extra 1 litre of water in
addition to your normal drinks and stay off the alcohol if you want to
shift those pounds.

Day 1 on the Little Black Dress Diet 

Breakfast:
1/2 large melon.
Light meal or snack:
Vegetable soup or carrot and celery juice. Raw vegetable salad with brown rice and olive oil and lemon juice dressing
Main meal:
Mixed salad, any cooked green vegetables with a well-rinsed can of beans (not baked) and 1 tsp olive oil

Day 2

Breakfast:
Freshly juiced apple and carrot or fresh orange
Light meal or snack:
The rest of yesterday's soup, salad, baked sweet potatoes.
Main meal:
Salad, cooked green vegetables, cooked cauliflower sprinkled with grated cheese and browned under the grill

Day 3

Breakfast:
A cup of hot water mixed with soya milk and 2 tbsp treacle. 2 slices of wholewheat bread and butter
Light meal or snack:
Large selection of fruit with raisins and dates
Main meal:
Salad, cooked green vegetables, wholewheat pasta and tomato sauce

Day 4

Breakfast:
1/2 grapefruit, 1 apple, natural yogurt with a little honey and chopped nuts
Light meal or snack:
Baked potato with butter or 1 tbsp sour cream and chopped fresh herbs, coleslaw, 1 ripe sweet pear
Main meal:
Vegetable and cheese casserole: Wash and slice 1 green, 1 red and 1
yellow pepper, 2 courgettes, 3 tomatoes, 1 large onion and 2 cloves
garlic. Rub casserole dish with olive oil. Add vegetables in layers,
sprinkling each layer with a little olive oil and chopped parsley and
basil. Cover with foil and bake at 180C (gas mark 4) for 45 mins. Remove
foil, sprinkle with 2 tbsp grated Parmesan and return to oven until
cheese is golden. Serve with steamed broccoli and have 1 orange for
pudding

Day 5

Breakfast:
Porridge made with water and 1tbsp single cream, 1 slice wholewheat bread or toast with a little butter.
Light meal or snack:
Winter salad: Mix shredded white cabbage, orange juice, 4 soaked dried
apricots and 2 tbsp chopped walnuts. Top with a dressing of 2 tbsp
natural yogurt, 2 tsp runny honey and grated lemon rind. Stewed apple
cooked with cinnamon and cloves.
Main meal:
Watercress Soup and grilled spiced chicken. Allow 1 skinned chicken
breast per person and cook extra as this is delicious cold the next day.
Chop onion and garlic and put in bowl with natural yogurt. Heat 1 tsp
each coriander and cumin seeds for 2 mins. Crush and add to yogurt with
half a tsp chilli powder. Pour over chicken and leave for 1 hour to
marinate. Grill the chicken 10 mins each side, basting occasionally with
marinade. Serve with steamed leeks and carrots.

Day 6

Breakfast:
Scrambled eggs with mushrooms, orange juice
Light meal or snack:
Pumpkin soup with wholewheat roll and butter. Watercress, avocado and celery salad
Main meal:
Houmous with celery, carrot, and fennel sticks. Grilled trout stuffed with lemon slices, baby spinach and steamed green cabbage.

Day 7

Breakfast:
Grapefruit juice, stewed apples sprinkled with flaked almonds, natural yogurt
Light meal or snack:
Mushroom risotto with a tossed green salad, a ripe sweet pear.
Main meal:
Stir-fried lean lamb cut into thin strips with a packet of mixed stir-fry vegetables. Sticks of celery and an apple

Day 8

Breakfast:
Muesli with a sliced banana and a little single cream
Light meal or snack:
Large baked potato with baked beans, chicory and watercress salad.
Main meal:
Shop bought carrot soup, cod with yogurt crust. To make the cod, pour a
large carton of natural yogurt into a blender along with 1 chopped
onion, 2 cloves peeled garlic, 3 tbsp coriander seeds, 2 tbsp fresh
mint, 2 tsp ground cumin, 2 tsp dried dill, 2 tsp paprika, a pinch of
nutmeg and 2 tbsp chopped parsley. Whizz together. Put 4 cod fillets
into dish, pour over sauce and put under a very hot grill until a crust
forms on the fish. Serve with mixed salad.

Day 9

Breakfast:
Dried Fruit Compote with 1 tbsp Greek yogurt
Light meal or snack:
Hot wholemeal pitta filled with houmous, spring onions, tomato and lettuce. A bunch of grapes and 1 banana.
Main meal:
Half a grapefruit, poached salmon, cauliflower puree and a tossed green salad.

Day 10

Breakfast:
2 rashers lean grilled bacon with 1 scrambled egg, mushrooms and large grilled tomato
Light meal or snack:
Winter Salad as before, 1apple.
Main meal:
Small avocado and prawn salad. Roast lamb with most of the fat removed
and cooked with plenty of garlic and rosemary, puree of turnips and
carrots. Celery sticks and selection of cheese.

Packed Lunches

You should aim to keep packed lunches made up of either protein or
starch which means old favourites like ham and cheese sandwiches are
out. These packed lunch ideas are based on either starch or protein and are
simple substitutes for the light meals or snacks in the daily diet
plans.

Starchy packed lunches
Wholewheat pitta pocket stuffed with cucumber, tomato, watercress, black
olives, lettuce and a dribble of olive oil. Raisins and nuts
Wholewheat sandwiches with hardboiled egg-yolks mashed with mayonnaise,
slices of cucumber and cress. 2 oatmeal biscuits, 1 banana
A thermos of thick vegetable soup with a wholewheat roll or rye crackers
with butter. Carrot salad with raisins and nuts, 1 banana
Rice Salad, a rye crispbread and a ripe sweet pear
Sticks of carrot, celery, fennel and cucumber along with sprigs of
cauliflower. Tatsiki for dipping and a wholewheat roll with butter

Protein packed lunches
Plain cottage cheese, 1 apple, a hardboiled egg, chunks of carrot, celery, cucumber, fennel
Cabbage, celery, apple and grated Gruyere cheese salad. Orange or grapes, 25g (1oz) roasted almonds, yogurt.
Chopped vegetables with guacamole, a carton of stewed apple with Ginger with 2 tbsp yogurt. Mixed nuts
A piece of cold roast chicken or slices of cold roast turkey breast, apple, celery and peanut salad, grapes
Natural yogurt, sticks of celery, a piece of hard cheese, 1 apple, dates

Visit www.michaelvanstraten.com for more information on Michael van Straten's diets.

Recipes to try: Mushroom risotto Goodtoknow diets:
Slimming and sex positions for Christmas
'I tried the Little Black Dress Diet'
Find your perfect diet quiz
Flatten your belly

Read more at http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/wellbeing/132645/Little-Black-Dress-Diet#sL20Flt6Pd6IfbCX.99A survey by M&S reveals that 6 million of us keep our little black dresses for over 12 years. If you're dying to fit back into your favourite LBD again, try our emergency 10-day diet to help you lose 10 pounds and feel like Audrey Hepburn in this iconic picture from 1961 film, Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Originally devised for people who need to lose weight for health reasons, this no-alcohol Little Black Dress Diet helps you lose weight quickly using food combinations (eg you can't mix protein and carbohydrates) to help you quickly look great in that LBD.

What is the Little Black Dress Diet?

It's a 10-day plan devised by nutritional consultant Michael van Straten for people who need to lose weight quickly for health reasons. But he admits there's no reason why you shouldn't use it now and again for an emergency Little Black Dress moment. Followed religiously, you could lose up to 10lb in 10 days!

How does it work?

The LBD diet is loosely based on the idea of food combining. The basic idea is that you don't mix protein and carbohydrates, or starch, in any meal. Some experts believe this helps our body digest food easily and so avoids weight gain. As well as following the meal plans, you're advised to take certain vitamins and herbal tonics to boost your immunity. You're also told to avoid alcohol which in itself will probably help you lose weight.Anyone who wants to lose a lot of weight quickly. People who enjoy cooking meals from scratch.

What are the drawbacks?

The first three days are extremely low-calorie so you might find these
hard going. Several of the meals are quite time consuming to make. All
the ingredients are of a high quality so this plan could be expensive.

What do you do?

Follow the meal plans as accurately as possible. Each day, there's
breakfast plus one light meal or snack and one main meal.
If you're out during the day, there are packed lunch options to choose
from although take care to eat either protein or starch based lunches.
The menus below will give you an idea.

As well as the food, make sure that you take 3 tsp a day of the Swiss
herbal tonic Bio-Strath elixir to boost your natural immunity and 1
Genesis vitamin and mineral pill. Drink an extra 1 litre of water in
addition to your normal drinks and stay off the alcohol if you want to
shift those pounds.

Day 1 on the Little Black Dress Diet 

Breakfast:
1/2 large melon.
Light meal or snack:
Vegetable soup or carrot and celery juice. Raw vegetable salad with brown rice and olive oil and lemon juice dressing
Main meal:
Mixed salad, any cooked green vegetables with a well-rinsed can of beans (not baked) and 1 tsp olive oil

Day 2

Breakfast:
Freshly juiced apple and carrot or fresh orange
Light meal or snack:
The rest of yesterday's soup, salad, baked sweet potatoes.
Main meal:
Salad, cooked green vegetables, cooked cauliflower sprinkled with grated cheese and browned under the grill

Day 3

Breakfast:
A cup of hot water mixed with soya milk and 2 tbsp treacle. 2 slices of wholewheat bread and butter
Light meal or snack:
Large selection of fruit with raisins and dates
Main meal:
Salad, cooked green vegetables, wholewheat pasta and tomato sauce

Day 4

Breakfast:
1/2 grapefruit, 1 apple, natural yogurt with a little honey and chopped nuts
Light meal or snack:
Baked potato with butter or 1 tbsp sour cream and chopped fresh herbs, coleslaw, 1 ripe sweet pear
Main meal:
Vegetable and cheese casserole: Wash and slice 1 green, 1 red and 1
yellow pepper, 2 courgettes, 3 tomatoes, 1 large onion and 2 cloves
garlic. Rub casserole dish with olive oil. Add vegetables in layers,
sprinkling each layer with a little olive oil and chopped parsley and
basil. Cover with foil and bake at 180C (gas mark 4) for 45 mins. Remove
foil, sprinkle with 2 tbsp grated Parmesan and return to oven until
cheese is golden. Serve with steamed broccoli and have 1 orange for
pudding

Day 5

Breakfast:
Porridge made with water and 1tbsp single cream, 1 slice wholewheat bread or toast with a little butter.
Light meal or snack:
Winter salad: Mix shredded white cabbage, orange juice, 4 soaked dried
apricots and 2 tbsp chopped walnuts. Top with a dressing of 2 tbsp
natural yogurt, 2 tsp runny honey and grated lemon rind. Stewed apple
cooked with cinnamon and cloves.
Main meal:
Watercress Soup and grilled spiced chicken. Allow 1 skinned chicken
breast per person and cook extra as this is delicious cold the next day.
Chop onion and garlic and put in bowl with natural yogurt. Heat 1 tsp
each coriander and cumin seeds for 2 mins. Crush and add to yogurt with
half a tsp chilli powder. Pour over chicken and leave for 1 hour to
marinate. Grill the chicken 10 mins each side, basting occasionally with
marinade. Serve with steamed leeks and carrots.

Day 6

Breakfast:
Scrambled eggs with mushrooms, orange juice
Light meal or snack:
Pumpkin soup with wholewheat roll and butter. Watercress, avocado and celery salad
Main meal:
Houmous with celery, carrot, and fennel sticks. Grilled trout stuffed with lemon slices, baby spinach and steamed green cabbage.

Day 7

Breakfast:
Grapefruit juice, stewed apples sprinkled with flaked almonds, natural yogurt
Light meal or snack:
Mushroom risotto with a tossed green salad, a ripe sweet pear.
Main meal:
Stir-fried lean lamb cut into thin strips with a packet of mixed stir-fry vegetables. Sticks of celery and an apple

Day 8

Breakfast:
Muesli with a sliced banana and a little single cream
Light meal or snack:
Large baked potato with baked beans, chicory and watercress salad.
Main meal:
Shop bought carrot soup, cod with yogurt crust. To make the cod, pour a
large carton of natural yogurt into a blender along with 1 chopped
onion, 2 cloves peeled garlic, 3 tbsp coriander seeds, 2 tbsp fresh
mint, 2 tsp ground cumin, 2 tsp dried dill, 2 tsp paprika, a pinch of
nutmeg and 2 tbsp chopped parsley. Whizz together. Put 4 cod fillets
into dish, pour over sauce and put under a very hot grill until a crust
forms on the fish. Serve with mixed salad.

Day 9

Breakfast:
Dried Fruit Compote with 1 tbsp Greek yogurt
Light meal or snack:
Hot wholemeal pitta filled with houmous, spring onions, tomato and lettuce. A bunch of grapes and 1 banana.
Main meal:
Half a grapefruit, poached salmon, cauliflower puree and a tossed green salad.

Day 10

Breakfast:
2 rashers lean grilled bacon with 1 scrambled egg, mushrooms and large grilled tomato
Light meal or snack:
Winter Salad as before, 1apple.
Main meal:
Small avocado and prawn salad. Roast lamb with most of the fat removed
and cooked with plenty of garlic and rosemary, puree of turnips and
carrots. Celery sticks and selection of cheese.

Packed Lunches

You should aim to keep packed lunches made up of either protein or
starch which means old favourites like ham and cheese sandwiches are
out. These packed lunch ideas are based on either starch or protein and are
simple substitutes for the light meals or snacks in the daily diet
plans.

Starchy packed lunches
Wholewheat pitta pocket stuffed with cucumber, tomato, watercress, black
olives, lettuce and a dribble of olive oil. Raisins and nuts
Wholewheat sandwiches with hardboiled egg-yolks mashed with mayonnaise,
slices of cucumber and cress. 2 oatmeal biscuits, 1 banana
A thermos of thick vegetable soup with a wholewheat roll or rye crackers
with butter. Carrot salad with raisins and nuts, 1 banana
Rice Salad, a rye crispbread and a ripe sweet pear
Sticks of carrot, celery, fennel and cucumber along with sprigs of
cauliflower. Tatsiki for dipping and a wholewheat roll with butter

Protein packed lunches
Plain cottage cheese, 1 apple, a hardboiled egg, chunks of carrot, celery, cucumber, fennel
Cabbage, celery, apple and grated Gruyere cheese salad. Orange or grapes, 25g (1oz) roasted almonds, yogurt.
Chopped vegetables with guacamole, a carton of stewed apple with Ginger with 2 tbsp yogurt. Mixed nuts
A piece of cold roast chicken or slices of cold roast turkey breast, apple, celery and peanut salad, grapes
Natural yogurt, sticks of celery, a piece of hard cheese, 1 apple, dates

Visit www.michaelvanstraten.com for more information on Michael van Straten's diets.

Recipes to try: Mushroom risotto Goodtoknow diets:
Slimming and sex positions for Christmas
'I tried the Little Black Dress Diet'
Find your perfect diet quiz
Flatten your belly

Read more at http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/wellbeing/132645/Little-Black-Dress-Diet#sL20Flt6Pd6IfbCX.99A survey by M&S reveals that 6 million of us keep our little black dresses for over 12 years. If you're dying to fit back into your favourite LBD again, try our emergency 10-day diet to help you lose 10 pounds and feel like Audrey Hepburn in this iconic picture from 1961 film, Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Originally devised for people who need to lose weight for health reasons, this no-alcohol Little Black Dress Diet helps you lose weight quickly using food combinations (eg you can't mix protein and carbohydrates) to help you quickly look great in that LBD.

What is the Little Black Dress Diet?

It's a 10-day plan devised by nutritional consultant Michael van Straten for people who need to lose weight quickly for health reasons. But he admits there's no reason why you shouldn't use it now and again for an emergency Little Black Dress moment. Followed religiously, you could lose up to 10lb in 10 days!

How does it work?

The LBD diet is loosely based on the idea of food combining. The basic idea is that you don't mix protein and carbohydrates, or starch, in any meal. Some experts believe this helps our body digest food easily and so avoids weight gain. As well as following the meal plans, you're advised to take certain vitamins and herbal tonics to boost your immunity. You're also told to avoid alcohol which in itself will probably help you lose weight.Anyone who wants to lose a lot of weight quickly. People who enjoy cooking meals from scratch.

What are the drawbacks?

The first three days are extremely low-calorie so you might find these
hard going. Several of the meals are quite time consuming to make. All
the ingredients are of a high quality so this plan could be expensive.

What do you do?

Follow the meal plans as accurately as possible. Each day, there's
breakfast plus one light meal or snack and one main meal.
If you're out during the day, there are packed lunch options to choose
from although take care to eat either protein or starch based lunches.
The menus below will give you an idea.

As well as the food, make sure that you take 3 tsp a day of the Swiss
herbal tonic Bio-Strath elixir to boost your natural immunity and 1
Genesis vitamin and mineral pill. Drink an extra 1 litre of water in
addition to your normal drinks and stay off the alcohol if you want to
shift those pounds.

Day 1 on the Little Black Dress Diet 

Breakfast:
1/2 large melon.
Light meal or snack:
Vegetable soup or carrot and celery juice. Raw vegetable salad with brown rice and olive oil and lemon juice dressing
Main meal:
Mixed salad, any cooked green vegetables with a well-rinsed can of beans (not baked) and 1 tsp olive oil

Day 2

Breakfast:
Freshly juiced apple and carrot or fresh orange
Light meal or snack:
The rest of yesterday's soup, salad, baked sweet potatoes.
Main meal:
Salad, cooked green vegetables, cooked cauliflower sprinkled with grated cheese and browned under the grill

Day 3

Breakfast:
A cup of hot water mixed with soya milk and 2 tbsp treacle. 2 slices of wholewheat bread and butter
Light meal or snack:
Large selection of fruit with raisins and dates
Main meal:
Salad, cooked green vegetables, wholewheat pasta and tomato sauce

Day 4

Breakfast:
1/2 grapefruit, 1 apple, natural yogurt with a little honey and chopped nuts
Light meal or snack:
Baked potato with butter or 1 tbsp sour cream and chopped fresh herbs, coleslaw, 1 ripe sweet pear
Main meal:
Vegetable and cheese casserole: Wash and slice 1 green, 1 red and 1
yellow pepper, 2 courgettes, 3 tomatoes, 1 large onion and 2 cloves
garlic. Rub casserole dish with olive oil. Add vegetables in layers,
sprinkling each layer with a little olive oil and chopped parsley and
basil. Cover with foil and bake at 180C (gas mark 4) for 45 mins. Remove
foil, sprinkle with 2 tbsp grated Parmesan and return to oven until
cheese is golden. Serve with steamed broccoli and have 1 orange for
pudding

Day 5

Breakfast:
Porridge made with water and 1tbsp single cream, 1 slice wholewheat bread or toast with a little butter.
Light meal or snack:
Winter salad: Mix shredded white cabbage, orange juice, 4 soaked dried
apricots and 2 tbsp chopped walnuts. Top with a dressing of 2 tbsp
natural yogurt, 2 tsp runny honey and grated lemon rind. Stewed apple
cooked with cinnamon and cloves.
Main meal:
Watercress Soup and grilled spiced chicken. Allow 1 skinned chicken
breast per person and cook extra as this is delicious cold the next day.
Chop onion and garlic and put in bowl with natural yogurt. Heat 1 tsp
each coriander and cumin seeds for 2 mins. Crush and add to yogurt with
half a tsp chilli powder. Pour over chicken and leave for 1 hour to
marinate. Grill the chicken 10 mins each side, basting occasionally with
marinade. Serve with steamed leeks and carrots.

Day 6

Breakfast:
Scrambled eggs with mushrooms, orange juice
Light meal or snack:
Pumpkin soup with wholewheat roll and butter. Watercress, avocado and celery salad
Main meal:
Houmous with celery, carrot, and fennel sticks. Grilled trout stuffed with lemon slices, baby spinach and steamed green cabbage.

Day 7

Breakfast:
Grapefruit juice, stewed apples sprinkled with flaked almonds, natural yogurt
Light meal or snack:
Mushroom risotto with a tossed green salad, a ripe sweet pear.
Main meal:
Stir-fried lean lamb cut into thin strips with a packet of mixed stir-fry vegetables. Sticks of celery and an apple

Day 8

Breakfast:
Muesli with a sliced banana and a little single cream
Light meal or snack:
Large baked potato with baked beans, chicory and watercress salad.
Main meal:
Shop bought carrot soup, cod with yogurt crust. To make the cod, pour a
large carton of natural yogurt into a blender along with 1 chopped
onion, 2 cloves peeled garlic, 3 tbsp coriander seeds, 2 tbsp fresh
mint, 2 tsp ground cumin, 2 tsp dried dill, 2 tsp paprika, a pinch of
nutmeg and 2 tbsp chopped parsley. Whizz together. Put 4 cod fillets
into dish, pour over sauce and put under a very hot grill until a crust
forms on the fish. Serve with mixed salad.

Day 9

Breakfast:
Dried Fruit Compote with 1 tbsp Greek yogurt
Light meal or snack:
Hot wholemeal pitta filled with houmous, spring onions, tomato and lettuce. A bunch of grapes and 1 banana.
Main meal:
Half a grapefruit, poached salmon, cauliflower puree and a tossed green salad.

Day 10

Breakfast:
2 rashers lean grilled bacon with 1 scrambled egg, mushrooms and large grilled tomato
Light meal or snack:
Winter Salad as before, 1apple.
Main meal:
Small avocado and prawn salad. Roast lamb with most of the fat removed
and cooked with plenty of garlic and rosemary, puree of turnips and
carrots. Celery sticks and selection of cheese.

Packed Lunches

You should aim to keep packed lunches made up of either protein or
starch which means old favourites like ham and cheese sandwiches are
out. These packed lunch ideas are based on either starch or protein and are
simple substitutes for the light meals or snacks in the daily diet
plans.

Starchy packed lunches
Wholewheat pitta pocket stuffed with cucumber, tomato, watercress, black
olives, lettuce and a dribble of olive oil. Raisins and nuts
Wholewheat sandwiches with hardboiled egg-yolks mashed with mayonnaise,
slices of cucumber and cress. 2 oatmeal biscuits, 1 banana
A thermos of thick vegetable soup with a wholewheat roll or rye crackers
with butter. Carrot salad with raisins and nuts, 1 banana
Rice Salad, a rye crispbread and a ripe sweet pear
Sticks of carrot, celery, fennel and cucumber along with sprigs of
cauliflower. Tatsiki for dipping and a wholewheat roll with butter

Protein packed lunches
Plain cottage cheese, 1 apple, a hardboiled egg, chunks of carrot, celery, cucumber, fennel
Cabbage, celery, apple and grated Gruyere cheese salad. Orange or grapes, 25g (1oz) roasted almonds, yogurt.
Chopped vegetables with guacamole, a carton of stewed apple with Ginger with 2 tbsp yogurt. Mixed nuts
A piece of cold roast chicken or slices of cold roast turkey breast, apple, celery and peanut salad, grapes
Natural yogurt, sticks of celery, a piece of hard cheese, 1 apple, dates

Visit www.michaelvanstraten.com for more information on Michael van Straten's diets.

Recipes to try: Mushroom risotto Goodtoknow diets:
Slimming and sex positions for Christmas
'I tried the Little Black Dress Diet'
Find your perfect diet quiz
Flatten your belly

Read more at http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/wellbeing/132645/Little-Black-Dress-Diet#sL20Flt6Pd6IfbCX.99A survey by M&S reveals that 6 million of us keep our little black dresses for over 12 years. If you're dying to fit back into your favourite LBD again, try our emergency 10-day diet to help you lose 10 pounds and feel like Audrey Hepburn in this iconic picture from 1961 film, Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Originally devised for people who need to lose weight for health reasons, this no-alcohol Little Black Dress Diet helps you lose weight quickly using food combinations (eg you can't mix protein and carbohydrates) to help you quickly look great in that LBD.

What is the Little Black Dress Diet?

It's a 10-day plan devised by nutritional consultant Michael van Straten for people who need to lose weight quickly for health reasons. But he admits there's no reason why you shouldn't use it now and again for an emergency Little Black Dress moment. Followed religiously, you could lose up to 10lb in 10 days!

How does it work?

The LBD diet is loosely based on the idea of food combining. The basic idea is that you don't mix protein and carbohydrates, or starch, in any meal. Some experts believe this helps our body digest food easily and so avoids weight gain. As well as following the meal plans, you're advised to take certain vitamins and herbal tonics to boost your immunity. You're also told to avoid alcohol which in itself will probably help you lose weight.Anyone who wants to lose a lot of weight quickly. People who enjoy cooking meals from scratch.

What are the drawbacks?

The first three days are extremely low-calorie so you might find these
hard going. Several of the meals are quite time consuming to make. All
the ingredients are of a high quality so this plan could be expensive.

What do you do?

Follow the meal plans as accurately as possible. Each day, there's
breakfast plus one light meal or snack and one main meal.
If you're out during the day, there are packed lunch options to choose
from although take care to eat either protein or starch based lunches.
The menus below will give you an idea.

As well as the food, make sure that you take 3 tsp a day of the Swiss
herbal tonic Bio-Strath elixir to boost your natural immunity and 1
Genesis vitamin and mineral pill. Drink an extra 1 litre of water in
addition to your normal drinks and stay off the alcohol if you want to
shift those pounds.

Day 1 on the Little Black Dress Diet 

Breakfast:
1/2 large melon.
Light meal or snack:
Vegetable soup or carrot and celery juice. Raw vegetable salad with brown rice and olive oil and lemon juice dressing
Main meal:
Mixed salad, any cooked green vegetables with a well-rinsed can of beans (not baked) and 1 tsp olive oil

Day 2

Breakfast:
Freshly juiced apple and carrot or fresh orange
Light meal or snack:
The rest of yesterday's soup, salad, baked sweet potatoes.
Main meal:
Salad, cooked green vegetables, cooked cauliflower sprinkled with grated cheese and browned under the grill

Day 3

Breakfast:
A cup of hot water mixed with soya milk and 2 tbsp treacle. 2 slices of wholewheat bread and butter
Light meal or snack:
Large selection of fruit with raisins and dates
Main meal:
Salad, cooked green vegetables, wholewheat pasta and tomato sauce

Day 4

Breakfast:
1/2 grapefruit, 1 apple, natural yogurt with a little honey and chopped nuts
Light meal or snack:
Baked potato with butter or 1 tbsp sour cream and chopped fresh herbs, coleslaw, 1 ripe sweet pear
Main meal:
Vegetable and cheese casserole: Wash and slice 1 green, 1 red and 1
yellow pepper, 2 courgettes, 3 tomatoes, 1 large onion and 2 cloves
garlic. Rub casserole dish with olive oil. Add vegetables in layers,
sprinkling each layer with a little olive oil and chopped parsley and
basil. Cover with foil and bake at 180C (gas mark 4) for 45 mins. Remove
foil, sprinkle with 2 tbsp grated Parmesan and return to oven until
cheese is golden. Serve with steamed broccoli and have 1 orange for
pudding

Day 5

Breakfast:
Porridge made with water and 1tbsp single cream, 1 slice wholewheat bread or toast with a little butter.
Light meal or snack:
Winter salad: Mix shredded white cabbage, orange juice, 4 soaked dried
apricots and 2 tbsp chopped walnuts. Top with a dressing of 2 tbsp
natural yogurt, 2 tsp runny honey and grated lemon rind. Stewed apple
cooked with cinnamon and cloves.
Main meal:
Watercress Soup and grilled spiced chicken. Allow 1 skinned chicken
breast per person and cook extra as this is delicious cold the next day.
Chop onion and garlic and put in bowl with natural yogurt. Heat 1 tsp
each coriander and cumin seeds for 2 mins. Crush and add to yogurt with
half a tsp chilli powder. Pour over chicken and leave for 1 hour to
marinate. Grill the chicken 10 mins each side, basting occasionally with
marinade. Serve with steamed leeks and carrots.

Day 6

Breakfast:
Scrambled eggs with mushrooms, orange juice
Light meal or snack:
Pumpkin soup with wholewheat roll and butter. Watercress, avocado and celery salad
Main meal:
Houmous with celery, carrot, and fennel sticks. Grilled trout stuffed with lemon slices, baby spinach and steamed green cabbage.

Day 7

Breakfast:
Grapefruit juice, stewed apples sprinkled with flaked almonds, natural yogurt
Light meal or snack:
Mushroom risotto with a tossed green salad, a ripe sweet pear.
Main meal:
Stir-fried lean lamb cut into thin strips with a packet of mixed stir-fry vegetables. Sticks of celery and an apple

Day 8

Breakfast:
Muesli with a sliced banana and a little single cream
Light meal or snack:
Large baked potato with baked beans, chicory and watercress salad.
Main meal:
Shop bought carrot soup, cod with yogurt crust. To make the cod, pour a
large carton of natural yogurt into a blender along with 1 chopped
onion, 2 cloves peeled garlic, 3 tbsp coriander seeds, 2 tbsp fresh
mint, 2 tsp ground cumin, 2 tsp dried dill, 2 tsp paprika, a pinch of
nutmeg and 2 tbsp chopped parsley. Whizz together. Put 4 cod fillets
into dish, pour over sauce and put under a very hot grill until a crust
forms on the fish. Serve with mixed salad.

Day 9

Breakfast:
Dried Fruit Compote with 1 tbsp Greek yogurt
Light meal or snack:
Hot wholemeal pitta filled with houmous, spring onions, tomato and lettuce. A bunch of grapes and 1 banana.
Main meal:
Half a grapefruit, poached salmon, cauliflower puree and a tossed green salad.

Day 10

Breakfast:
2 rashers lean grilled bacon with 1 scrambled egg, mushrooms and large grilled tomato
Light meal or snack:
Winter Salad as before, 1apple.
Main meal:
Small avocado and prawn salad. Roast lamb with most of the fat removed
and cooked with plenty of garlic and rosemary, puree of turnips and
carrots. Celery sticks and selection of cheese.

Packed Lunches

You should aim to keep packed lunches made up of either protein or
starch which means old favourites like ham and cheese sandwiches are
out. These packed lunch ideas are based on either starch or protein and are
simple substitutes for the light meals or snacks in the daily diet
plans.

Starchy packed lunches
Wholewheat pitta pocket stuffed with cucumber, tomato, watercress, black
olives, lettuce and a dribble of olive oil. Raisins and nuts
Wholewheat sandwiches with hardboiled egg-yolks mashed with mayonnaise,
slices of cucumber and cress. 2 oatmeal biscuits, 1 banana
A thermos of thick vegetable soup with a wholewheat roll or rye crackers
with butter. Carrot salad with raisins and nuts, 1 banana
Rice Salad, a rye crispbread and a ripe sweet pear
Sticks of carrot, celery, fennel and cucumber along with sprigs of
cauliflower. Tatsiki for dipping and a wholewheat roll with butter

Protein packed lunches
Plain cottage cheese, 1 apple, a hardboiled egg, chunks of carrot, celery, cucumber, fennel
Cabbage, celery, apple and grated Gruyere cheese salad. Orange or grapes, 25g (1oz) roasted almonds, yogurt.
Chopped vegetables with guacamole, a carton of stewed apple with Ginger with 2 tbsp yogurt. Mixed nuts
A piece of cold roast chicken or slices of cold roast turkey breast, apple, celery and peanut salad, grapes
Natural yogurt, sticks of celery, a piece of hard cheese, 1 apple, dates

Visit www.michaelvanstraten.com for more information on Michael van Straten's diets.

Recipes to try: Mushroom risotto Goodtoknow diets:
Slimming and sex positions for Christmas
'I tried the Little Black Dress Diet'
Find your perfect diet quiz
Flatten your belly

Read more at http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/wellbeing/132645/Little-Black-Dress-Diet#sL20Flt6Pd6IfbCX.99A survey by M&S reveals that 6 million of us keep our little black dresses for over 12 years. If you're dying to fit back into your favourite LBD again, try our emergency 10-day diet to help you lose 10 pounds and feel like Audrey Hepburn in this iconic picture from 1961 film, Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Originally devised for people who need to lose weight for health reasons, this no-alcohol Little Black Dress Diet helps you lose weight quickly using food combinations (eg you can't mix protein and carbohydrates) to help you quickly look great in that LBD.

What is the Little Black Dress Diet?

It's a 10-day plan devised by nutritional consultant Michael van Straten for people who need to lose weight quickly for health reasons. But he admits there's no reason why you shouldn't use it now and again for an emergency Little Black Dress moment. Followed religiously, you could lose up to 10lb in 10 days!

How does it work?

The LBD diet is loosely based on the idea of food combining. The basic idea is that you don't mix protein and carbohydrates, or starch, in any meal. Some experts believe this helps our body digest food easily and so avoids weight gain. As well as following the meal plans, you're advised to take certain vitamins and herbal tonics to boost your immunity. You're also told to avoid alcohol which in itself will probably help you lose weight.Anyone who wants to lose a lot of weight quickly. People who enjoy cooking meals from scratch.

What are the drawbacks?

The first three days are extremely low-calorie so you might find these
hard going. Several of the meals are quite time consuming to make. All
the ingredients are of a high quality so this plan could be expensive.

What do you do?

Follow the meal plans as accurately as possible. Each day, there's
breakfast plus one light meal or snack and one main meal.
If you're out during the day, there are packed lunch options to choose
from although take care to eat either protein or starch based lunches.
The menus below will give you an idea.

As well as the food, make sure that you take 3 tsp a day of the Swiss
herbal tonic Bio-Strath elixir to boost your natural immunity and 1
Genesis vitamin and mineral pill. Drink an extra 1 litre of water in
addition to your normal drinks and stay off the alcohol if you want to
shift those pounds.

Day 1 on the Little Black Dress Diet 

Breakfast:
1/2 large melon.
Light meal or snack:
Vegetable soup or carrot and celery juice. Raw vegetable salad with brown rice and olive oil and lemon juice dressing
Main meal:
Mixed salad, any cooked green vegetables with a well-rinsed can of beans (not baked) and 1 tsp olive oil

Day 2

Breakfast:
Freshly juiced apple and carrot or fresh orange
Light meal or snack:
The rest of yesterday's soup, salad, baked sweet potatoes.
Main meal:
Salad, cooked green vegetables, cooked cauliflower sprinkled with grated cheese and browned under the grill

Day 3

Breakfast:
A cup of hot water mixed with soya milk and 2 tbsp treacle. 2 slices of wholewheat bread and butter
Light meal or snack:
Large selection of fruit with raisins and dates
Main meal:
Salad, cooked green vegetables, wholewheat pasta and tomato sauce

Day 4

Breakfast:
1/2 grapefruit, 1 apple, natural yogurt with a little honey and chopped nuts
Light meal or snack:
Baked potato with butter or 1 tbsp sour cream and chopped fresh herbs, coleslaw, 1 ripe sweet pear
Main meal:
Vegetable and cheese casserole: Wash and slice 1 green, 1 red and 1
yellow pepper, 2 courgettes, 3 tomatoes, 1 large onion and 2 cloves
garlic. Rub casserole dish with olive oil. Add vegetables in layers,
sprinkling each layer with a little olive oil and chopped parsley and
basil. Cover with foil and bake at 180C (gas mark 4) for 45 mins. Remove
foil, sprinkle with 2 tbsp grated Parmesan and return to oven until
cheese is golden. Serve with steamed broccoli and have 1 orange for
pudding

Day 5

Breakfast:
Porridge made with water and 1tbsp single cream, 1 slice wholewheat bread or toast with a little butter.
Light meal or snack:
Winter salad: Mix shredded white cabbage, orange juice, 4 soaked dried
apricots and 2 tbsp chopped walnuts. Top with a dressing of 2 tbsp
natural yogurt, 2 tsp runny honey and grated lemon rind. Stewed apple
cooked with cinnamon and cloves.
Main meal:
Watercress Soup and grilled spiced chicken. Allow 1 skinned chicken
breast per person and cook extra as this is delicious cold the next day.
Chop onion and garlic and put in bowl with natural yogurt. Heat 1 tsp
each coriander and cumin seeds for 2 mins. Crush and add to yogurt with
half a tsp chilli powder. Pour over chicken and leave for 1 hour to
marinate. Grill the chicken 10 mins each side, basting occasionally with
marinade. Serve with steamed leeks and carrots.

Day 6

Breakfast:
Scrambled eggs with mushrooms, orange juice
Light meal or snack:
Pumpkin soup with wholewheat roll and butter. Watercress, avocado and celery salad
Main meal:
Houmous with celery, carrot, and fennel sticks. Grilled trout stuffed with lemon slices, baby spinach and steamed green cabbage.

Day 7

Breakfast:
Grapefruit juice, stewed apples sprinkled with flaked almonds, natural yogurt
Light meal or snack:
Mushroom risotto with a tossed green salad, a ripe sweet pear.
Main meal:
Stir-fried lean lamb cut into thin strips with a packet of mixed stir-fry vegetables. Sticks of celery and an apple

Day 8

Breakfast:
Muesli with a sliced banana and a little single cream
Light meal or snack:
Large baked potato with baked beans, chicory and watercress salad.
Main meal:
Shop bought carrot soup, cod with yogurt crust. To make the cod, pour a
large carton of natural yogurt into a blender along with 1 chopped
onion, 2 cloves peeled garlic, 3 tbsp coriander seeds, 2 tbsp fresh
mint, 2 tsp ground cumin, 2 tsp dried dill, 2 tsp paprika, a pinch of
nutmeg and 2 tbsp chopped parsley. Whizz together. Put 4 cod fillets
into dish, pour over sauce and put under a very hot grill until a crust
forms on the fish. Serve with mixed salad.

Day 9

Breakfast:
Dried Fruit Compote with 1 tbsp Greek yogurt
Light meal or snack:
Hot wholemeal pitta filled with houmous, spring onions, tomato and lettuce. A bunch of grapes and 1 banana.
Main meal:
Half a grapefruit, poached salmon, cauliflower puree and a tossed green salad.

Day 10

Breakfast:
2 rashers lean grilled bacon with 1 scrambled egg, mushrooms and large grilled tomato
Light meal or snack:
Winter Salad as before, 1apple.
Main meal:
Small avocado and prawn salad. Roast lamb with most of the fat removed
and cooked with plenty of garlic and rosemary, puree of turnips and
carrots. Celery sticks and selection of cheese.

Packed Lunches

You should aim to keep packed lunches made up of either protein or
starch which means old favourites like ham and cheese sandwiches are
out. These packed lunch ideas are based on either starch or protein and are
simple substitutes for the light meals or snacks in the daily diet
plans.

Starchy packed lunches
Wholewheat pitta pocket stuffed with cucumber, tomato, watercress, black
olives, lettuce and a dribble of olive oil. Raisins and nuts
Wholewheat sandwiches with hardboiled egg-yolks mashed with mayonnaise,
slices of cucumber and cress. 2 oatmeal biscuits, 1 banana
A thermos of thick vegetable soup with a wholewheat roll or rye crackers
with butter. Carrot salad with raisins and nuts, 1 banana
Rice Salad, a rye crispbread and a ripe sweet pear
Sticks of carrot, celery, fennel and cucumber along with sprigs of
cauliflower. Tatsiki for dipping and a wholewheat roll with butter

Protein packed lunches
Plain cottage cheese, 1 apple, a hardboiled egg, chunks of carrot, celery, cucumber, fennel
Cabbage, celery, apple and grated Gruyere cheese salad. Orange or grapes, 25g (1oz) roasted almonds, yogurt.
Chopped vegetables with guacamole, a carton of stewed apple with Ginger with 2 tbsp yogurt. Mixed nuts
A piece of cold roast chicken or slices of cold roast turkey breast, apple, celery and peanut salad, grapes
Natural yogurt, sticks of celery, a piece of hard cheese, 1 apple, dates

Visit www.michaelvanstraten.com for more information on Michael van Straten's diets.


Recipes to try: Mushroom risotto Goodtoknow diets:
Slimming and sex positions for Christmas
'I tried the Little Black Dress Diet'
Find your perfect diet quiz
Flatten your belly

Read more at http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/wellbeing/132645/Little-Black-Dress-Diet#sL20Flt6Pd6IfbCX.99A survey by M&S reveals that 6 million of us keep our little black dresses for over 12 years. If you're dying to fit back into your favourite LBD again, try our emergency 10-day diet to help you lose 10 pounds and feel like Audrey Hepburn in this iconic picture from 1961 film, Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Originally devised for people who need to lose weight for health reasons, this no-alcohol Little Black Dress Diet helps you lose weight quickly using food combinations (eg you can't mix protein and carbohydrates) to help you quickly look great in that LBD.

What is the Little Black Dress Diet?

It's a 10-day plan devised by nutritional consultant Michael van Straten for people who need to lose weight quickly for health reasons. But he admits there's no reason why you shouldn't use it now and again for an emergency Little Black Dress moment. Followed religiously, you could lose up to 10lb in 10 days!

How does it work?

The LBD diet is loosely based on the idea of food combining. The basic idea is that you don't mix protein and carbohydrates, or starch, in any meal. Some experts believe this helps our body digest food easily and so avoids weight gain. As well as following the meal plans, you're advised to take certain vitamins and herbal tonics to boost your immunity. You're also told to avoid alcohol which in itself will probably help you lose weight.Anyone who wants to lose a lot of weight quickly. People who enjoy cooking meals from scratch.

What are the drawbacks?

The first three days are extremely low-calorie so you might find these
hard going. Several of the meals are quite time consuming to make. All
the ingredients are of a high quality so this plan could be expensive.

What do you do?

Follow the meal plans as accurately as possible. Each day, there's
breakfast plus one light meal or snack and one main meal.
If you're out during the day, there are packed lunch options to choose
from although take care to eat either protein or starch based lunches.
The menus below will give you an idea.

As well as the food, make sure that you take 3 tsp a day of the Swiss
herbal tonic Bio-Strath elixir to boost your natural immunity and 1
Genesis vitamin and mineral pill. Drink an extra 1 litre of water in
addition to your normal drinks and stay off the alcohol if you want to
shift those pounds.

Day 1 on the Little Black Dress Diet 

Breakfast:
1/2 large melon.
Light meal or snack:
Vegetable soup or carrot and celery juice. Raw vegetable salad with brown rice and olive oil and lemon juice dressing
Main meal:
Mixed salad, any cooked green vegetables with a well-rinsed can of beans (not baked) and 1 tsp olive oil

Day 2

Breakfast:
Freshly juiced apple and carrot or fresh orange
Light meal or snack:
The rest of yesterday's soup, salad, baked sweet potatoes.
Main meal:
Salad, cooked green vegetables, cooked cauliflower sprinkled with grated cheese and browned under the grill

Day 3

Breakfast:
A cup of hot water mixed with soya milk and 2 tbsp treacle. 2 slices of wholewheat bread and butter
Light meal or snack:
Large selection of fruit with raisins and dates
Main meal:
Salad, cooked green vegetables, wholewheat pasta and tomato sauce

Day 4

Breakfast:
1/2 grapefruit, 1 apple, natural yogurt with a little honey and chopped nuts
Light meal or snack:
Baked potato with butter or 1 tbsp sour cream and chopped fresh herbs, coleslaw, 1 ripe sweet pear
Main meal:
Vegetable and cheese casserole: Wash and slice 1 green, 1 red and 1
yellow pepper, 2 courgettes, 3 tomatoes, 1 large onion and 2 cloves
garlic. Rub casserole dish with olive oil. Add vegetables in layers,
sprinkling each layer with a little olive oil and chopped parsley and
basil. Cover with foil and bake at 180C (gas mark 4) for 45 mins. Remove
foil, sprinkle with 2 tbsp grated Parmesan and return to oven until
cheese is golden. Serve with steamed broccoli and have 1 orange for
pudding

Day 5

Breakfast:
Porridge made with water and 1tbsp single cream, 1 slice wholewheat bread or toast with a little butter.
Light meal or snack:
Winter salad: Mix shredded white cabbage, orange juice, 4 soaked dried
apricots and 2 tbsp chopped walnuts. Top with a dressing of 2 tbsp
natural yogurt, 2 tsp runny honey and grated lemon rind. Stewed apple
cooked with cinnamon and cloves.
Main meal:
Watercress Soup and grilled spiced chicken. Allow 1 skinned chicken
breast per person and cook extra as this is delicious cold the next day.
Chop onion and garlic and put in bowl with natural yogurt. Heat 1 tsp
each coriander and cumin seeds for 2 mins. Crush and add to yogurt with
half a tsp chilli powder. Pour over chicken and leave for 1 hour to
marinate. Grill the chicken 10 mins each side, basting occasionally with
marinade. Serve with steamed leeks and carrots.

Day 6

Breakfast:
Scrambled eggs with mushrooms, orange juice
Light meal or snack:
Pumpkin soup with wholewheat roll and butter. Watercress, avocado and celery salad
Main meal:
Houmous with celery, carrot, and fennel sticks. Grilled trout stuffed with lemon slices, baby spinach and steamed green cabbage.

Day 7

Breakfast:
Grapefruit juice, stewed apples sprinkled with flaked almonds, natural yogurt
Light meal or snack:
Mushroom risotto with a tossed green salad, a ripe sweet pear.
Main meal:
Stir-fried lean lamb cut into thin strips with a packet of mixed stir-fry vegetables. Sticks of celery and an apple

Day 8

Breakfast:
Muesli with a sliced banana and a little single cream
Light meal or snack:
Large baked potato with baked beans, chicory and watercress salad.
Main meal:
Shop bought carrot soup, cod with yogurt crust. To make the cod, pour a
large carton of natural yogurt into a blender along with 1 chopped
onion, 2 cloves peeled garlic, 3 tbsp coriander seeds, 2 tbsp fresh
mint, 2 tsp ground cumin, 2 tsp dried dill, 2 tsp paprika, a pinch of
nutmeg and 2 tbsp chopped parsley. Whizz together. Put 4 cod fillets
into dish, pour over sauce and put under a very hot grill until a crust
forms on the fish. Serve with mixed salad.

Day 9

Breakfast:
Dried Fruit Compote with 1 tbsp Greek yogurt
Light meal or snack:
Hot wholemeal pitta filled with houmous, spring onions, tomato and lettuce. A bunch of grapes and 1 banana.
Main meal:
Half a grapefruit, poached salmon, cauliflower puree and a tossed green salad.

Day 10

Breakfast:
2 rashers lean grilled bacon with 1 scrambled egg, mushrooms and large grilled tomato
Light meal or snack:
Winter Salad as before, 1apple.
Main meal:
Small avocado and prawn salad. Roast lamb with most of the fat removed
and cooked with plenty of garlic and rosemary, puree of turnips and
carrots. Celery sticks and selection of cheese.

Packed Lunches

You should aim to keep packed lunches made up of either protein or
starch which means old favourites like ham and cheese sandwiches are
out. These packed lunch ideas are based on either starch or protein and are
simple substitutes for the light meals or snacks in the daily diet
plans.

Starchy packed lunches
Wholewheat pitta pocket stuffed with cucumber, tomato, watercress, black
olives, lettuce and a dribble of olive oil. Raisins and nuts
Wholewheat sandwiches with hardboiled egg-yolks mashed with mayonnaise,
slices of cucumber and cress. 2 oatmeal biscuits, 1 banana
A thermos of thick vegetable soup with a wholewheat roll or rye crackers
with butter. Carrot salad with raisins and nuts, 1 banana
Rice Salad, a rye crispbread and a ripe sweet pear
Sticks of carrot, celery, fennel and cucumber along with sprigs of
cauliflower. Tatsiki for dipping and a wholewheat roll with butter

Protein packed lunches
Plain cottage cheese, 1 apple, a hardboiled egg, chunks of carrot, celery, cucumber, fennel
Cabbage, celery, apple and grated Gruyere cheese salad. Orange or grapes, 25g (1oz) roasted almonds, yogurt.
Chopped vegetables with guacamole, a carton of stewed apple with Ginger with 2 tbsp yogurt. Mixed nuts
A piece of cold roast chicken or slices of cold roast turkey breast, apple, celery and peanut salad, grapes
Natural yogurt, sticks of celery, a piece of hard cheese, 1 apple, dates

Visit www.michaelvanstraten.com for more information on Michael van Straten's diets.


Recipes to try: Mushroom risotto Goodtoknow diets:
Slimming and sex positions for Christmas
'I tried the Little Black Dress Diet'
Find your perfect diet quiz
Flatten your belly

Read more at http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/wellbeing/132645/Little-Black-Dress-Diet#sL20Flt6Pd6IfbCX.99A survey by M&S reveals that 6 million of us keep our little black dresses for over 12 years. If you're dying to fit back into your favourite LBD again, try our emergency 10-day diet to help you lose 10 pounds and feel like Audrey Hepburn in this iconic picture from 1961 film, Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Originally devised for people who need to lose weight for health reasons, this no-alcohol Little Black Dress Diet helps you lose weight quickly using food combinations (eg you can't mix protein and carbohydrates) to help you quickly look great in that LBD.

What is the Little Black Dress Diet?

It's a 10-day plan devised by nutritional consultant Michael van Straten for people who need to lose weight quickly for health reasons. But he admits there's no reason why you shouldn't use it now and again for an emergency Little Black Dress moment. Followed religiously, you could lose up to 10lb in 10 days!

How does it work?

The LBD diet is loosely based on the idea of food combining. The basic idea is that you don't mix protein and carbohydrates, or starch, in any meal. Some experts believe this helps our body digest food easily and so avoids weight gain. As well as following the meal plans, you're advised to take certain vitamins and herbal tonics to boost your immunity. You're also told to avoid alcohol which in itself will probably help you lose weight.Anyone who wants to lose a lot of weight quickly. People who enjoy cooking meals from scratch.

What are the drawbacks?

The first three days are extremely low-calorie so you might find these
hard going. Several of the meals are quite time consuming to make. All
the ingredients are of a high quality so this plan could be expensive.

What do you do?

Follow the meal plans as accurately as possible. Each day, there's
breakfast plus one light meal or snack and one main meal.
If you're out during the day, there are packed lunch options to choose
from although take care to eat either protein or starch based lunches.
The menus below will give you an idea.

As well as the food, make sure that you take 3 tsp a day of the Swiss
herbal tonic Bio-Strath elixir to boost your natural immunity and 1
Genesis vitamin and mineral pill. Drink an extra 1 litre of water in
addition to your normal drinks and stay off the alcohol if you want to
shift those pounds.

Day 1 on the Little Black Dress Diet 

Breakfast:
1/2 large melon.
Light meal or snack:
Vegetable soup or carrot and celery juice. Raw vegetable salad with brown rice and olive oil and lemon juice dressing
Main meal:
Mixed salad, any cooked green vegetables with a well-rinsed can of beans (not baked) and 1 tsp olive oil

Day 2

Breakfast:
Freshly juiced apple and carrot or fresh orange
Light meal or snack:
The rest of yesterday's soup, salad, baked sweet potatoes.
Main meal:
Salad, cooked green vegetables, cooked cauliflower sprinkled with grated cheese and browned under the grill

Day 3

Breakfast:
A cup of hot water mixed with soya milk and 2 tbsp treacle. 2 slices of wholewheat bread and butter
Light meal or snack:
Large selection of fruit with raisins and dates
Main meal:
Salad, cooked green vegetables, wholewheat pasta and tomato sauce

Day 4

Breakfast:
1/2 grapefruit, 1 apple, natural yogurt with a little honey and chopped nuts
Light meal or snack:
Baked potato with butter or 1 tbsp sour cream and chopped fresh herbs, coleslaw, 1 ripe sweet pear
Main meal:
Vegetable and cheese casserole: Wash and slice 1 green, 1 red and 1
yellow pepper, 2 courgettes, 3 tomatoes, 1 large onion and 2 cloves
garlic. Rub casserole dish with olive oil. Add vegetables in layers,
sprinkling each layer with a little olive oil and chopped parsley and
basil. Cover with foil and bake at 180C (gas mark 4) for 45 mins. Remove
foil, sprinkle with 2 tbsp grated Parmesan and return to oven until
cheese is golden. Serve with steamed broccoli and have 1 orange for
pudding

Day 5

Breakfast:
Porridge made with water and 1tbsp single cream, 1 slice wholewheat bread or toast with a little butter.
Light meal or snack:
Winter salad: Mix shredded white cabbage, orange juice, 4 soaked dried
apricots and 2 tbsp chopped walnuts. Top with a dressing of 2 tbsp
natural yogurt, 2 tsp runny honey and grated lemon rind. Stewed apple
cooked with cinnamon and cloves.
Main meal:
Watercress Soup and grilled spiced chicken. Allow 1 skinned chicken
breast per person and cook extra as this is delicious cold the next day.
Chop onion and garlic and put in bowl with natural yogurt. Heat 1 tsp
each coriander and cumin seeds for 2 mins. Crush and add to yogurt with
half a tsp chilli powder. Pour over chicken and leave for 1 hour to
marinate. Grill the chicken 10 mins each side, basting occasionally with
marinade. Serve with steamed leeks and carrots.

Day 6

Breakfast:
Scrambled eggs with mushrooms, orange juice
Light meal or snack:
Pumpkin soup with wholewheat roll and butter. Watercress, avocado and celery salad
Main meal:
Houmous with celery, carrot, and fennel sticks. Grilled trout stuffed with lemon slices, baby spinach and steamed green cabbage.

Day 7

Breakfast:
Grapefruit juice, stewed apples sprinkled with flaked almonds, natural yogurt
Light meal or snack:
Mushroom risotto with a tossed green salad, a ripe sweet pear.
Main meal:
Stir-fried lean lamb cut into thin strips with a packet of mixed stir-fry vegetables. Sticks of celery and an apple

Day 8

Breakfast:
Muesli with a sliced banana and a little single cream
Light meal or snack:
Large baked potato with baked beans, chicory and watercress salad.
Main meal:
Shop bought carrot soup, cod with yogurt crust. To make the cod, pour a
large carton of natural yogurt into a blender along with 1 chopped
onion, 2 cloves peeled garlic, 3 tbsp coriander seeds, 2 tbsp fresh
mint, 2 tsp ground cumin, 2 tsp dried dill, 2 tsp paprika, a pinch of
nutmeg and 2 tbsp chopped parsley. Whizz together. Put 4 cod fillets
into dish, pour over sauce and put under a very hot grill until a crust
forms on the fish. Serve with mixed salad.

Day 9

Breakfast:
Dried Fruit Compote with 1 tbsp Greek yogurt
Light meal or snack:
Hot wholemeal pitta filled with houmous, spring onions, tomato and lettuce. A bunch of grapes and 1 banana.
Main meal:
Half a grapefruit, poached salmon, cauliflower puree and a tossed green salad.

Day 10

Breakfast:
2 rashers lean grilled bacon with 1 scrambled egg, mushrooms and large grilled tomato
Light meal or snack:
Winter Salad as before, 1apple.
Main meal:
Small avocado and prawn salad. Roast lamb with most of the fat removed
and cooked with plenty of garlic and rosemary, puree of turnips and
carrots. Celery sticks and selection of cheese.

Packed Lunches

You should aim to keep packed lunches made up of either protein or
starch which means old favourites like ham and cheese sandwiches are
out. These packed lunch ideas are based on either starch or protein and are
simple substitutes for the light meals or snacks in the daily diet
plans.

Starchy packed lunches
Wholewheat pitta pocket stuffed with cucumber, tomato, watercress, black
olives, lettuce and a dribble of olive oil. Raisins and nuts
Wholewheat sandwiches with hardboiled egg-yolks mashed with mayonnaise,
slices of cucumber and cress. 2 oatmeal biscuits, 1 banana
A thermos of thick vegetable soup with a wholewheat roll or rye crackers
with butter. Carrot salad with raisins and nuts, 1 banana
Rice Salad, a rye crispbread and a ripe sweet pear
Sticks of carrot, celery, fennel and cucumber along with sprigs of
cauliflower. Tatsiki for dipping and a wholewheat roll with butter

Protein packed lunches
Plain cottage cheese, 1 apple, a hardboiled egg, chunks of carrot, celery, cucumber, fennel
Cabbage, celery, apple and grated Gruyere cheese salad. Orange or grapes, 25g (1oz) roasted almonds, yogurt.
Chopped vegetables with guacamole, a carton of stewed apple with Ginger with 2 tbsp yogurt. Mixed nuts
A piece of cold roast chicken or slices of cold roast turkey breast, apple, celery and peanut salad, grapes
Natural yogurt, sticks of celery, a piece of hard cheese, 1 apple, dates

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Originally devised for people who need to lose weight for health reasons, this no-alcohol Little Black Dress Diet helps you lose weight quickly using food combinations (eg you can't mix protein and carbohydrates) to help you quickly look great in that LBD.

What is the Little Black Dress Diet?

It's a 10-day plan devised by nutritional consultant Michael van Straten for people who need to lose weight quickly for health reasons. But he admits there's no reason why you shouldn't use it now and again for an emergency Little Black Dress moment. Followed religiously, you could lose up to 10lb in 10 days!

How does it work?

The LBD diet is loosely based on the idea of food combining. The basic idea is that you don't mix protein and carbohydrates, or starch, in any meal. Some experts believe this helps our body digest food easily and so avoids weight gain. As well as following the meal plans, you're advised to take certain vitamins and herbal tonics to boost your immunity. You're also told to avoid alcohol which in itself will probably help you lose weight.Anyone who wants to lose a lot of weight quickly. People who enjoy cooking meals from scratch.

What are the drawbacks?

The first three days are extremely low-calorie so you might find these
hard going. Several of the meals are quite time consuming to make. All
the ingredients are of a high quality so this plan could be expensive.

What do you do?

Follow the meal plans as accurately as possible. Each day, there's
breakfast plus one light meal or snack and one main meal.
If you're out during the day, there are packed lunch options to choose
from although take care to eat either protein or starch based lunches.
The menus below will give you an idea.

As well as the food, make sure that you take 3 tsp a day of the Swiss
herbal tonic Bio-Strath elixir to boost your natural immunity and 1
Genesis vitamin and mineral pill. Drink an extra 1 litre of water in
addition to your normal drinks and stay off the alcohol if you want to
shift those pounds.

Day 1 on the Little Black Dress Diet 

Breakfast:
1/2 large melon.
Light meal or snack:
Vegetable soup or carrot and celery juice. Raw vegetable salad with brown rice and olive oil and lemon juice dressing
Main meal:
Mixed salad, any cooked green vegetables with a well-rinsed can of beans (not baked) and 1 tsp olive oil

Day 2

Breakfast:
Freshly juiced apple and carrot or fresh orange
Light meal or snack:
The rest of yesterday's soup, salad, baked sweet potatoes.
Main meal:
Salad, cooked green vegetables, cooked cauliflower sprinkled with grated cheese and browned under the grill

Day 3

Breakfast:
A cup of hot water mixed with soya milk and 2 tbsp treacle. 2 slices of wholewheat bread and butter
Light meal or snack:
Large selection of fruit with raisins and dates
Main meal:
Salad, cooked green vegetables, wholewheat pasta and tomato sauce

Day 4

Breakfast:
1/2 grapefruit, 1 apple, natural yogurt with a little honey and chopped nuts
Light meal or snack:
Baked potato with butter or 1 tbsp sour cream and chopped fresh herbs, coleslaw, 1 ripe sweet pear
Main meal:
Vegetable and cheese casserole: Wash and slice 1 green, 1 red and 1
yellow pepper, 2 courgettes, 3 tomatoes, 1 large onion and 2 cloves
garlic. Rub casserole dish with olive oil. Add vegetables in layers,
sprinkling each layer with a little olive oil and chopped parsley and
basil. Cover with foil and bake at 180C (gas mark 4) for 45 mins. Remove
foil, sprinkle with 2 tbsp grated Parmesan and return to oven until
cheese is golden. Serve with steamed broccoli and have 1 orange for
pudding

Day 5

Breakfast:
Porridge made with water and 1tbsp single cream, 1 slice wholewheat bread or toast with a little butter.
Light meal or snack:
Winter salad: Mix shredded white cabbage, orange juice, 4 soaked dried
apricots and 2 tbsp chopped walnuts. Top with a dressing of 2 tbsp
natural yogurt, 2 tsp runny honey and grated lemon rind. Stewed apple
cooked with cinnamon and cloves.
Main meal:
Watercress Soup and grilled spiced chicken. Allow 1 skinned chicken
breast per person and cook extra as this is delicious cold the next day.
Chop onion and garlic and put in bowl with natural yogurt. Heat 1 tsp
each coriander and cumin seeds for 2 mins. Crush and add to yogurt with
half a tsp chilli powder. Pour over chicken and leave for 1 hour to
marinate. Grill the chicken 10 mins each side, basting occasionally with
marinade. Serve with steamed leeks and carrots.

Day 6

Breakfast:
Scrambled eggs with mushrooms, orange juice
Light meal or snack:
Pumpkin soup with wholewheat roll and butter. Watercress, avocado and celery salad
Main meal:
Houmous with celery, carrot, and fennel sticks. Grilled trout stuffed with lemon slices, baby spinach and steamed green cabbage.

Day 7

Breakfast:
Grapefruit juice, stewed apples sprinkled with flaked almonds, natural yogurt
Light meal or snack:
Mushroom risotto with a tossed green salad, a ripe sweet pear.
Main meal:
Stir-fried lean lamb cut into thin strips with a packet of mixed stir-fry vegetables. Sticks of celery and an apple

Day 8

Breakfast:
Muesli with a sliced banana and a little single cream
Light meal or snack:
Large baked potato with baked beans, chicory and watercress salad.
Main meal:
Shop bought carrot soup, cod with yogurt crust. To make the cod, pour a
large carton of natural yogurt into a blender along with 1 chopped
onion, 2 cloves peeled garlic, 3 tbsp coriander seeds, 2 tbsp fresh
mint, 2 tsp ground cumin, 2 tsp dried dill, 2 tsp paprika, a pinch of
nutmeg and 2 tbsp chopped parsley. Whizz together. Put 4 cod fillets
into dish, pour over sauce and put under a very hot grill until a crust
forms on the fish. Serve with mixed salad.

Day 9

Breakfast:
Dried Fruit Compote with 1 tbsp Greek yogurt
Light meal or snack:
Hot wholemeal pitta filled with houmous, spring onions, tomato and lettuce. A bunch of grapes and 1 banana.
Main meal:
Half a grapefruit, poached salmon, cauliflower puree and a tossed green salad.

Day 10

Breakfast:
2 rashers lean grilled bacon with 1 scrambled egg, mushrooms and large grilled tomato
Light meal or snack:
Winter Salad as before, 1apple.
Main meal:
Small avocado and prawn salad. Roast lamb with most of the fat removed
and cooked with plenty of garlic and rosemary, puree of turnips and
carrots. Celery sticks and selection of cheese.

Packed Lunches

You should aim to keep packed lunches made up of either protein or
starch which means old favourites like ham and cheese sandwiches are
out. These packed lunch ideas are based on either starch or protein and are
simple substitutes for the light meals or snacks in the daily diet
plans.

Starchy packed lunches
Wholewheat pitta pocket stuffed with cucumber, tomato, watercress, black
olives, lettuce and a dribble of olive oil. Raisins and nuts
Wholewheat sandwiches with hardboiled egg-yolks mashed with mayonnaise,
slices of cucumber and cress. 2 oatmeal biscuits, 1 banana
A thermos of thick vegetable soup with a wholewheat roll or rye crackers
with butter. Carrot salad with raisins and nuts, 1 banana
Rice Salad, a rye crispbread and a ripe sweet pear
Sticks of carrot, celery, fennel and cucumber along with sprigs of
cauliflower. Tatsiki for dipping and a wholewheat roll with butter

Protein packed lunches
Plain cottage cheese, 1 apple, a hardboiled egg, chunks of carrot, celery, cucumber, fennel
Cabbage, celery, apple and grated Gruyere cheese salad. Orange or grapes, 25g (1oz) roasted almonds, yogurt.
Chopped vegetables with guacamole, a carton of stewed apple with Ginger with 2 tbsp yogurt. Mixed nuts
A piece of cold roast chicken or slices of cold roast turkey breast, apple, celery and peanut salad, grapes
Natural yogurt, sticks of celery, a piece of hard cheese, 1 apple, dates

Visit www.michaelvanstraten.com for more information on Michael van Straten's diets.


Recipes to try: Mushroom risotto Goodtoknow diets:
Slimming and sex positions for Christmas
'I tried the Little Black Dress Diet'
Find your perfect diet quiz
Flatten your belly

Read more at http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/wellbeing/132645/Little-Black-Dress-Diet#sL20Flt6Pd6IfbCX.99