These are tips to follow that I try to obey when I can to stay slim. Unfortunately, my job requires me to eat out a lot and in large portions (my industry is mostly male), and my husband really likes carbs for dinner.
Either way, these are very good tips to follow to get and stay skinny.
1. Keep your metabolism up:
Get plenty of sleep, at least 8 hours a night.
2. Don't let your metabolism slow: Always eat breakfast. Try to never skip meals. And, treat yourself to indulgences every once in a while.
3. Avoid preservatives. Try to have freshly cooked items as much as possible. Freshly cooked items does not change to fat as efficiently as food with lots of preservatives. It's a common misconception to just count calories. Not all calories are created equal. Eating 500 calories worth of spinach is processed way differently by your body than 500 calories of cookies. It's a combination of quality AND quantity.
4. If you ate REALLY badly on a day, that night before you go to bed, boil a cup of water and squeeze the juice of a quarter wedge of lemon into it. Drink while still hot/warm. This lemon tea also does wonders to your skin if done for 3 days in a row. I don't advise doing it everyday. For an unfounded reason, I just don't feel comfortable doing this. Although, I know people who drink this every morning.
5. Eat 3 servings of veggies, 2 servings of fruit a day. Having citrus in your diet every day is beneficial if you are trying to lose weight. Grapefruit is especially effective.
6. Exercise. Even if it is 30 minutes once a week, it's good for your body. If you are trying to lose weight, it's best to do something aerobic and at a constant pace. For example, jogging at the same speed for 20 minutes. Also, for weight loss, it has been shown that running, ellipticals, and this sort of aerobic exercise is more effective than swimming.
Having more muscle/fat ratio produces a higher metabolism. Also, muscle has a greater capacity to keep the body hydrated. People with less fat stay hydrated easier.
7. Eat less at dinner than you do at any of your other meals. Only allow a small portion of carbs at dinner. No sweets for dinner either.
8. Eat till 80% full and STOP. Do not wait until you are very full to stop. 80% full feels like your stomach is comfortably satisfied (if this makes sense).
9. No eating 2.5 hours before bedtime. Sumo wrestlers actually eat a VERY large meal and immediately nap afterwards to build body weight. To be slim, there should be a good amount of time between food consumption and slumber.
10. Weigh yourself every morning. This will make you try harder to be healthy each day.
11. Drink lots of water. Forgo the juice and soda.
Most of the time, I'm not following these rules because my job/lifestyle do not permit it. But, if I see a pound creeping on, I refer back to these tips and keep my weight in check.
I got this item on Ebay for a grand total of $1.79. That's including shipping mind you. It was a buy it now for a set of two tea steepers!
Ok, so Asians are obsessed with small faces for women. It is a very important aspect of being considered attractive. The above item supposedly slims down the face by massage. Ok, in my opinion, this is ridiculously useless... However, accupuncture and accupressure have been proven to be effective! Either way, don't waste your money on it!
This tool improves the profile of a person's face by creating a more desirable angle of the nose. Meanwhile it squeezes the nose into a narrower shape. Again, I do not think this would work. I'd imagine you'd just end up with a very red nose after using it for a while.
Again, this is to make the face smaller. You are supposed to wear it while you sleep. This thing just looks hilarious. I don't know how anyone would manage to sleep with that on. And, once again 0 science behind why it would work. 
First we have sponge ball curlers. They come in packs of 6. If you've got thick hair, you will need 12. But, the great thing about these are they are SOFT, so you can sleep on them. When your hair is 90% dry, put your hair in these and sleep on it. It's that easy!
Razor comb- cut angles and layers into your hair with these easily!
This pic shows the sponge ball curlers and a bang styler at the bottom.
Last but not least, the zit/blackhead remover. Poke the unsightly bump with the pointy end and squeeze out the zit with the other. 
This is how I know our society is completely down the crapper. This piggy bank is sold on a website targeted for young girls. They also sell a ridiculous amount of pink stuff and young teenager magazines such as Seventeen... All women of my generation or younger know that only less than 16 year olds read this... 
