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Try the Core Master I’m hoping for a six-pack thanks to this, devised by trainer Dean Varga. It looks like a wobble board with a ball in the middle and handles. You do a range of exercises on it, from press-ups to planks. The instability means your core gets a harder, deeper workout. £149.95, thecoremaster.co.uk. 3 The tipple Fermented fizz, anyone? Fermented drinks that help your microbiome are set to boom. Remedy Kombucha (from £1.99, from Tesco), a sweet tea full of live bacteria, tastes great without the usual sugary hit of fizzy drinks. And my favourite, Agua de Madre Kefir Water (£...

STOCKING FILLERS  Dieting tip of the year comes from Jilly Cooper: ‘Paste photographs of girls in bikinis on all the biscuit tins.’ Other highlights in Between The Covers (Penguin, £14.99), a collection of Cooper’s newspaper columns from the 1970s, include how to deal with Christmas cards — ‘I cover every available piece of furniture with ours; it is such a marvellous excuse not to dust for a month’ — and the tale of her red scarf accidentally finding its way into the wash: her husband was the only member of his rugby team to have a rose-pink jockstrap. The Get Your Teenage Bo...