Looking to lose some weight this year? You might be considering a diet, along with some healthy exercise of course. But don’t get caught in the trap of falling for the first diet you see on social media. Consider some of these tried and tested solutions to get the right fuel in your body and achieve your goal.

The Mediterranean Diet

There’s a good reason Mediteranean countries have some of the highest life expectancy rates: it’s how they eat. The Mediterranean diet has been ranked #1 by the  U.S. News & World Report for four years running now.

The focus of eating Mediteranean is on vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans and seeds, fish, and lots of extra virgin olive oil. There’s not much butter to it, really no refined sugar or floud, and meat is more for flavor. Say goodbye to refined sugar and flour except on rare occasions. Fats other than olive oil, such as butter, are consumed rarely, if at all.