Healthy diets are a key requirement for losing weight and keeping it off. While many diets are restrictive in requiring you to give up the sweets and treats that give your mood a boost, some modern nutrition experts are challenging this model.

Alex Buckley, for example, argues that when we sacrifice the little pleasures in our daily life in order to lose weight, we are setting ourselves up to fail. She advises people to make very small and simple adjustments to their diet and behavior in order to have the best chance of success. By accepting your habits and learning to work around them with small changes you can still achieve significant weight loss over time. Setting extreme dieting targets is a sure fire way to disrupt your daily life, ruin your mood and fail to stick to it in the long run.