Jane Wenham-Jones, best-selling author and columnist, would love to share how you can have wine and chocolate - and still be slim. Jane is available for interview 12-15 May, and 26-30 May.
 
This useful, amusing guide to becoming and staying trim (whilst still enjoying life) started out as advice for avoiding Writer's Bottom, a common occupational hazard associated with spending long hours in front of a computer. The tips were intended to be light-hearted, but Jane soon realised just how seriously she takes them.
 
Her first tip is 'eat chocolate' - not a traditional dieting strategy. Jane eats chocolate every day. She's also partial to crisps. It's important to her that she eats food that she enjoys, so she makes sure that she manages the Flab Fighting process in a way that allows her to eat the food she likes. Realising that everyone has different and varying motivations (depending on what kind of day we've had), Jane has put together a range of tips for people to choose from, dip into, to fit into our ever-changing life styles. In 100 Way To Fight the Flab (and still have wine and chocolate), she offers her top 100 tips on slimming down  - without sacrifice. 
 
 
‘The irrepressible Wenham-Jones has a sense of humour as well as a complete lack of inhibition...'  Daily Mail 
 
Jane Wenham-Jones is the author of four acclaimed novels - Raising the Roof, Perfect Alibis, One Glass Is Never Enough and Prime Time, and two popular writing guides, Wannabe a Writer? and Wannabe a Writer We've Heard Of? 

As a freelance journalist, she writes for women's magazines and the national press, has regular humorous columns in her local paper and Woman's Weekly Fiction Special and is the agony aunt for Writing Magazine. She has presented on BBC radio and TV, chaired panels at book festivals and been ‘in conversation with' dozens of authors and personalities including Julian Clary,  Richard Madeley, Jenny Éclair, Helen Lederer, Amanda Ross, Victoria Hislop, Bel Mooney, Irma Kurtz, Lucy Mangan, Judy Finnigan, Tim Bentinck, Fern Britton, Penny Vincenzi and Kate Mosse. She lives in Broadstairs, Kent.

 
100 Ways to Fight the Flab ... and still have wine and chocolate by Jane Wenham-Jones is published in paperback 15^th May by Accent Press, £7.99.
 
Quirky but useful, fun and factual, Jane's tips are a mixture of everyday science and common sense strategies, designed to fit in with your busy life. With advice on ‘party weeks', dressing to hide the pounds, and how to lose weight fast when a big date looms, Jane offers tactics that work where most diets fail.  From eating a chilli a day to speed up your metabolism, to doing quick exercise with rapid results, these tried-and-tested methods will have you looking and feeling leaner and fitter - and still allow for a daily fix of wine and chocolate.  
 
Jane, a 49 year-old mother and step-mum says: ‘This isn't a diet book but a series of strategies you can employ in order to lose or control your weight.  I'm not stick thin but I'm not morbidly obese either. Yet I do drink wine and eat chocolate and crisps daily. By following these strategies I manage to maintain my weight at a healthy 9 stone.' 

 ‘My tips will appeal to women of all ages and busy mums. It's all about fitting tips into your busy lifestyle. It's for those people who can't stick to traditional diets and want to enjoy their food.' 
 
Jane's top tips
 
• Have eggs for breakfast. Studies have shown that if you eat eggs for breakfast you will consume, on average, 400 calories less during the rest of the day than if you have a carbohydrate-only based start to the morning. 
 
• Eat a chilli a day. Chillies raise the metabolism and the fierier they are, the greater the effect. Experts estimate that one can expect a 15% increase in calories burned for about two hours after eating a hot chilli sauce. 
 
• Use dark chocolate to stave off hunger pains. Choose high quality at least 70% or preferably 85%. Chocolate contains stearic acid which slows digestion and also tryptophan, an essential amino acid that stimulates the production of serotonin - a natural anti-depressant - in the brain. This means that a few squares will not only take a significant edge off your appetite, and leave you feeling fuller for longer, but will cheer you up as well.
 
• Take a brisk walk before bed: A march round the block before you hit the sack will boost your metabolism no end and help burn off whatever you've been stuffing in front of Newsnight.
 
• Wear bigger knickers: Or whatever underwear it takes to hold it all in but make sure it's the type that are tight and well-cut, not the all-in-one body shapers that squash all the blubber under your armpits or down your thighs. 

 To arrange an interview with Jane Wenham-Jones or to receive a copy of 100 Ways To Fight The Flab, please contact Katrina Power, Katrina Power PR, 07 963 962 538, katrina.power@yahoo.com.