The carbohydrates we eat (such as sugar, bread, pasta, rice, potatoes wheat and flour etc.) are used by your body to maintain vital levels of sugars stored in your muscles and liver. These stored carbohydrates are the primary energy source that your body uses for everyday activities. When you start dieting to lose weight, your body generally continues to burn up mostly carbohydrates for energy. Only when carbohydrate stores become low do you start to burn a significant amount of fat, and burning fat leads to the type of weight loss that we want.

Unfortunately, even if you are dieting, each time you eat a meal containing a reasonable amount of carbohydrates, your carbohydrate stores get topped up again and you stop burning a lot of fat and go back to burning mostly carbohydrates - which slows down the whole weight loss process. However, if you start to cut back on the amount of carbohydrates you eat, your carbohydrate stores start to run low, which forces your body to start burning more fat for energy. When you start burning fat more regularly, you lose weight faster - it really is as simple as that!

Celebrity Slim is not a 'no' or 'low' carbohydrate programme, it does allow a regular intake of healthy fibrous carbohydrates - but compared to a traditional Western diet, it contributes about a quarter of the amount of carbohydrates.

Many diets focus on counting calories, and work by making you consume less calories (energy) each day than your body needs. This forces your body to draw on your reserves of body fat to meet your energy needs and so you lose weight. The Celebrity Slim Programme is designed so that you don't really need to count calories. By following our simple guidelines, you'll not only cut back the amount of carbohydrates you eat, but in most cases you'll reduce your overall daily calorie consumption. Cutting back on both carbohydrates and calories will have a very positive effect on your weight loss progress. The programme is designed to take the pain and effort out of losing weight, so you can actually enjoy the whole process and feel good about the positive steps you are taking to improve your health and lifestyle.

For anyone who is serious about losing weight, having a basic understanding of the energy equation is worthwhile. Almost everyone has a different daily calorie requirement, or in other words, a different amount of energy that their body burns each day. This is determined by many factors such as age, sex, body type, health status and level of physical activity.

When you consume less energy each day than your body burns, this forces your body to draw on your reserves of body fat to meet your energy needs, causing you to lose weight. So basically, as long as you consume less energy than your body burns each day, you will lose weight. It really is as simple as that!