The Daily Record in the UK has a straightforward plan: cut your food intake and up your physical activity to burn an extra 500 calories a day, and you’ll lose a pound in a week. Keep it up and you’re down 10 pounds in two and a half months.

I call this the no-Cokes, no-cookies strategy: replace high-calorie drinks like Cokes and beers, and swap cookies for baby carrots. Get in a one-hour hike every day as well and the pounds will come off. Just a matter of sticking to it.

Note: the above article is written with British women in mind so you’ll have to translate a few items.