If you'd like to approach your weight-loss efforts as a scientist would, your guiding decision-making principle should be one of simplicity. More often than not, the most straight-forward solutions are also ones that get us the greatest results, and this is very much the case when it comes to quick weight loss.

And what's more straight-forward than identifying your existing daily habits and giving them a small tweak to (literally) tip the scales in your favor? BJ Fogg, a behavior scientist at Stanford University and author of a new book Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything, agrees with this approach.