BE A DIET DEVIL

It is good to remember that a calorie is a calorie no matter what form it comes in, whether it's in steak, rice cakes or a bag of sweets. It's not so much the foods you eat, as the amount you eat and how often you treat yourself - that counts. No one no matter how dedicated to their diet is going to eat healthy foods for the rest of their lives. The trick is to control the amount of treats that you have. Food should not be the enemy, and treats shouldn't be the "baddies". Red wine and plain chocolate both have 70per cent cocoa and contain antioxidants, these help combat the effects of free radicals in our bodies - which are responsible for causing cancers and ageing. Even fruit cake with it's iron and vitamin-rich dried, isn't all bad.

Here are 25 naughty goodies, each containing 150 calories or less:

•  Half a Burger King hamburger (148 calories)

•  Half a McDonald's hamburger (125 calories

•  Glass of red wine (100 calories)

•  Half a slice of fruit cake (1½oz/40g) (150 calories)

•  4 small squares of plain chocolate (1oz/25g) (150 calories)

•  Mug of tea and two jaffa cakes (121 calories)

•  Jaffa cake roll (106 calories)

•  M & S chocolate mousse (70g) (81 calories)

•  One scoop (2oz/50g) Haagen-Daz vanilla ice cream (125 calories)

•  10 prawn crackers (about 15 calories each)

•  Two Indian poppadoms (98 ccalories)

•  Mioni vegetable Indian samosa (126 calories)

•  15 Maltesers (150 calories)

•  7 Bassett's jelly babies (140 calories)

•  A single Twix finger (144 calories)

•  2 KitKat fingers (122 calories)

•  A Milky Way bar (118 calories)

•  Bailey's Irish cream (1½fl oz/37ml) (129 calories)

•  2 vodka shots with slimline tonic (104 calories)

•  A piece of Pizza Hut garlic bread (101 calories)

•  A slice (2oz/50g) of Domino's cheese & tomato pizza (126 calories)

•  A packet of cheesey Wotsits (21g) (110 calories)

•  A packet of Walker 's cheese & onion flavour Lites crisps (28g) (130 calories)

•  20 cashew nuts, roasted and salted (122 calories)