Six diet-free ways to get lighter this January

A cross between a stress ball and an aromatherapy inhalation, the “slim” version of the highly satisfying mohdoh promises to stave off cravings when they strike. Remove the putty from its pot and squeeze between your hands until the scent is released as well as the desire to visit the vending machine. Well – that’s the idea.
Mohdoh Slim, £4.99, mohdoh.co.uk

Rather than telling you what not to eat (which in my experience only leads to rebellion), Ian Marber’s How Not To Get Fat – Your Daily Diet tells you what foods you can eat and can keep eating, to help you stay slim. The so-called Food Doctor’s advice is sound, sensible and anti-dieting – rather 50 recipes, 200 meal suggestions and 10 food planners that focus on the best and healthiest foods to build your diet around. Positively motivating.
‘How Not To Get Fat – Your Daily Diet’, by Ian Marber , £14.99

Enriched with antioxidant properties, Cho-Yung Tea claims to work by oxidising fat and stimulating the digestive tract, aiding weight loss when accompanied by a healthy diet and exercise programme. So if you already eat well and exercise, this could be the boost you need for extra January weight loss: or Nutritional Consultant Dr E Allison suggests trying the teas combined with six small meals a day, every two to three hours, to keep cravings at bay.
Cho-Yung tea, £39.99 for 30, hollandandbarrett.com

While we know there’s no magic pill that will give us the body of Gisele, there’s real science behind Formoline L112, which has gathered such a following in Europe it’s now launching in the UK. Two pills twice daily aid weight loss, or one twice daily will help weight maintenance – it’s the fibre in Formoline that’s clinically proven to bind to dietary fats (which are then excreted) and increase a feeling of fullness, thus reducing the calories that your body absorbs.
Formoline, £29.95 for 48 tablets, at Healthstuff.co.uk

How about lying down on a treatment couch and getting up again an hour later (after a thorough massage) an inch slimmer around the tummy and thighs? Tatiana, massage therapist at the Neville salon in London, can make this a reality. The combination of lymphatic drainage-based massage - which should force your body to let go of waste and leave you lighter - and deep tissue kneading, including suction with a cup-shaped tool to break down fat deposits and leave your body reshaped, sees best results over a course of treatments, but just one session should leave you slimmer. Hurrah!

Neville Hair and Beauty , Body re-shaping massage, £120

Put aside soup-only diets and pure-protein programmes and try Rodial’s Crash Diet range of beauty products combined with your usual balanced diet. Rodial’s clinical trials saw its Crash Diet Gel reduce thigh measurements by as much as 3.8cm in 6 weeks. We can’t wait to see the results of combining this with the Crash Diet sticks, a dietary supplement which contains guarana (promotes lipolysis, the breakdown of fat stored in fat cells), green tea leaf extract (slows down absorption of fat in the intestine) and green coffee seed extract (reduces intestinal absorption of glucose), and which gave weight loss of 5.7% over a 60 day period in clinical trials. Not bad for zero effort!
Rodial Crash diet sticks, £48 for 14 sticks and Crash diet gel, £75