1. Lust - If someone's birthday in the office (again!) and there's one piece of better-than-sex double-chocolate cake left with your name on it.You're starting to drool...

What to do: Before temtation gets the better of you, call or email one of diet experts to give you tips on how to curb those cravings.

2. Gluttony - You've started turning down dinner invitations because youknow that when everyone else is ordering the most fattening (read tastiest) dishes on the menu, your green salad just doesn't cut the mustard.

What to do: Check out the advice on one of an eating-out guides so you can cut the calories without missing out on the taste.

3. Greed - You set off the very best of intensions but, as soon as you're through the door, you're like a kid in a sweet shop. Before you know it, your trolley's piled sky-high with sinful treats.

What to do: Keep yourself focused and make your weekly shop with your ready-made shopping list.

4. Sloth - Planning your meals for the week is hard enough when you're working late and your social diar's bursting at the seams, without having to calculate calories too.

What to do: Try some online daily meal plans and easy recipes.Organize and prepare your meals.

5. Envy - When all of your workmates have apparently been blessed with the Kate Moss gene and can scoff chocolate, chips and full-fat lattes every day - without putting on so much as a pound-life can seem pretty unfair.

What to do: Don't worry - there are thousand of girls out there who are in the same boat. Visit some diet-blogs and chat rooms to swap notes, get the support of fellow dieters or simply vent!

6. Wrath - After three days of sugar deprivation, you fell like chucking your salad out of the window and giving the whole diet up for a box of krispy kreme doughnuts.

What to do: If you really straggle find some diet experts online. Sign up for their weekly newsletters, full of motivational advice and tips, delivered straight to your inbox.

7. Pride - You're too proud to admit you're on a diet and try to keep it a closely guarded secret from your friends, family and workmates, making it even more difficult to stay on track.

What to do: The only pride you're guilty of is taking pride in your appearance. Get inspiration from real-life success stories, then shout about your own success!