Best 5 Lose Weight Tips. Taken from Reader's Digest

1) After breakfast, make water your primary drink: At breakfast, go ahead and drink orange juice. But, throughout the rest of the day, focus on water instead of juice or soda.

2) Carry a palm size notebook everywhere you go for one week: Write down every single morsel that enters your lips -- even water. Studies have found that people who maintain food diaries wind up eating about 15 percent less food than those who don't.

3) Walk for 45 minutes a day: A Duke University study found that while 30 minutes of daily walking is enough to prevent weight gain in most relatively sedentary people, exercise beyond 30 minutes results in weight and fat loss.

4) Eat only when you hear your stomach growling: Instead of eating just for the sake of it, wait until your stomach is growling before you reach for food. If you'd eat anything you could get your hands on, chances are you're truly hungry.

5) Eat five or six small meals or snacks a day instead of three large meals: Studies show that if you eat a few couple calories of food in a distributed way, your body releases less insulin, which keeps blood sugar steady and helps control hunger.