A few kilos lost? With these 15 small tricks, you can easily lose some calories.

Losing weight feels so uninviting to me. Come on: I'm not going to starve myself just to fit into a size 34, because I find life with food and drink way too enjoyable.

I enjoy a good glass of Chardo, a croquette, a bag of chips, and a piece of chocolate. I hope you do too, every now and then. But if you want to keep an eye on your figure to look a bit sharp in your suit: fine, I get that. So I looked for the 15 smallest tricks for you, which will help you reduce calories every day. No dramatic diet where you can't eat anything, no exaggerated fuss with juices and meal bars that taste like plastic, no, just small things that change your lifestyle and make it easier for you to stick with it for the long haul. This will become your new normal. And then you'll naturally see the pounds flying off, just wait and see.

Women need 2000 calories a day. If you consume about 500 calories less per day, you'll lose weight in a responsible way. You can maintain these 15 tricks in a healthy way to get just a bit fewer calories in a day:

1. Eat everything you crave, but in smaller portions. Think 'just a little less' with everything you take. Often, with a smaller plate, you'll feel just as full, but you won't overeat.

2. Drink a large glass of water before breakfast, before lunch, and before dinner. This way, you'll eat about 90 calories less.

3. If you want more coffee after two cappuccinos a day, drink black coffee without sugar.

4. Eat slowly, especially your dinner. Research from Kyushu University in Japan shows that your brain takes as long as twenty minutes to realize that you're full.

5. Try not to have lunch or snack at your desk. According to scientists, this can lead you to eat an extra 250 kcal a day, because you don't really notice what you're eating.

6. At a large dinner, always go for a low-calorie starter, like carpaccio, soup, or a salad. This reduces the total amount of kcal you eat by as much as 20 percent, researchers say.

7. Exercise twice a week. No matter how much you hate it, once you schedule it into your weekly routine, you won't even notice you're doing it. It will feel good. Really. Just put it in your calendar and make time for it. Two hours a week should be doable, right?

8. Drink white wine instead of red wine: a glass of wine served in a 100 ml glass has an average of 67 kcal, while red wine has 82 kcal.

9. Stay active: get up often and plan a walk.

10. Do a plank for a minute every now and then, especially if you work from home. Small effort, big result.

11. Treat yourself to something sweet, but only in the evening with a cup of tea. If you allow yourself something all day, it's harder to find your limits. Chocolate = evening.

12. Only eat chips on the weekend and don't eat nuts often, because healthy, they're very fatty. The same goes for avocado, by the way.

13. Not full: always go for products with 0 percent sugar and 0 percent fat. Instead of full yogurt or quark, this saves you a lot. And you often don't even taste it.

14. Eat less meat: white fish is quite healthy and light, and vegetarian is always good. If you do want meat, turkey or chicken is fine lean meat.

15. Soda is so incredibly outdated, right? Enjoy a cup of tea and you'll feel a lot better.