Dr. Oz’s 16 Tips for Summer Weight Loss

there is a ton of good info in this article but I liked this part. I may move my nightly dessert to a mid day snack.

Eat dessert in the afternoon.
“The one thing I’m adamant about is not having dessert after dinner,” said Dr. Oz. “You can have sweets, like chocolate, but I don’t want people having dessert after dinner.” Why the hard line? Because following a big meal with a sugary-dessert, he explains, produces a surge of insulin which in turn socks away all the calories you ate at dinner as fat. “Dessert is metabolic suicide,” he said. That said, Dr. Oz recommends — indeed urges you — to eat chocolate every day! “Of all the sweet snacks, chocolate is the healthiest because it’s not loaded with trans fats,” he said. In fact, a recent study just reported that chocolate-eaters have nearly half the risk of heart disease as non-chocolate eaters. Here’s how to make chocolate work for you: Choose dark, rather than milk chocolate or white chocolate. The dark chocolate has many of those indirectly-helpful-for-slimming antioxidants we mentioned earlier. Eat a small amount (say, a quarter of a regular-size candy bar) as your afternoon snack. “Since you’re not eating other food with it,” said Dr. Oz, “you won’t deposit those calories as fat.”