Dr Khandee Ahnaimugan

The celebrity chef, Nigella Lawson, had been reported to have lost up to three stone recently. However, unlike most celebrities who lose weight, she had not attributed this to a miracle diet programme, which was highly unusual.

As it turns out, the reason for her weight loss was actually...

Lady Gaga has recently been in trouble for this tweet:

Just killed back to back spin classes. Eating a salad dreaming of a cheeseburger #PopSingersDontEat #IWasBornThisWay

— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) April 10, 2012

Lady Gaga found out that it's ok to dream of...

It's reported that Adele has gone on a health kick to lose weight after a health scare. She wants to drop two dress sizes.

Her health kick has involved quitting smoking, going on a vegetarian diet with her partner and working out twice a week with a personal trainer.

So...

Jamie Oliver was recently in the news after an Australian journalist asked him about his weight.

But this begs the question: how does a celebrity chef lose or manage their weight?

Specifically, Jamie Oliver has three things going against him:
1. He's in an industry...

Beyoncé is well on her way to losing 30 pounds of weight she gained after having her baby. That's great for her, but what interests me more is how it affects others trying to lose weight.

No matter how much we say that we are not influenced by others...

How do Hollywood stars maintain such great bodies? A recent article in Harper's Bazaar about Gwyneth Paltrow offers a glimpse into the regime she uses to maintain her slim physique

This sort of information is interesting because while most of our society struggles with being overweight, celebrities have...

At this time of year, many people's minds are on losing weight. And in our society, what is the default solution for being overweight?

"I won't eat any more chocolate, crisps, ice cream or cake."

"I am going to run five miles every day (even though I haven't done any exercise for six months)."

These are...

So what do you do if you want to lose weight but Christmas is approaching quickly? The most common response is to think to yourself "I'll think about losing weight after Christmas. I'll enjoy myself now and start afresh in the new year"

It's a common strategy but that doesn't...

An article in Sunday's Independent stated that "Quick-fix diets drive teens to hate their bodies".

This angst over how weight, body image and dieting affect young people was also brought to the fore in August because of the children's book "Maggie Goes on a Diet".

Sometimes it's hard to be a celebrity. Yoyo dieting (a cycle of losing weight and then gaining it back) is very common, but it is of course much worse when it's played out in public.

By now, you must be familiar with the scenario. A celebrity loses weight on...

The comedienne Dawn French has lost four stone. And when pressed to reveal the secret behind her weight loss, she has been quoted as saying:

"I'm eating healthily, taking care of myself and feeling very happy indeed."

This made me reflect on the entire nature of celebrity weight...

Do you think that you have the "fat gene" that makes you more likely to gain weight?

I know for some people who are overweight, it can be some comfort to know that their genes predispose them to gain weight. It gives them a reason and some meaning for why...

The Department of Health's report "Healthy Lives, Healthy People" has been released and the spotlight has been on Health secretary Andrew Lansley emphasising the need for the nation to cut calories to fight the obesity epidemic. I might be alone in this, but I think this message was useful because:

Our society, to its detriment, is obsessed with the diet as a solution to being overweight. But even people who accept that dieting is not the way to lose weight are still affected by the underlying principle behind a diet:

Diets are based on...

"If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same"

These lines from the Rudyard Kipling poem "If" are ones that should be taped to every dieter's set of scales, since they capture one of the big challenges of weighing yourself.

If you want to lose weight, there are so many different ways to do it. But why then, do so many people struggle to lose weight?

Because most people go about losing weight in the wrong way. This is less about the specific diet they choose, but more about how...

Could it possibly be easier for a woman to lose weight and keep it off after 40?

On the face of it, that sounds ridiculous. Even some of my most successful clients talk about how much easier it was to lose weight in their 20s.

"When I was 25, I...