It is cold. The nights are still long, and very dark. This is the hardest part of winter because it feels like it is going on forever, you'll never warm again, and there's no Christmas to look forward to.

This is when it is easy to comfort eat, and warm up with big mugs of frothy hot chocolate. And generally be tempted into lots of things that are simply going to put inches on your waist. Whether you're a mum or a dad.

It is probably with that in mind that Weight Watchers has launched a range of low calorie hot chocolate drinks in sachets. We received three flavours to try out. Read on to find out whether they're the answer to your winter prayers, or just another trick to get you to spend your cash.

We heard about the rumoured £2.5 million deal offered to Jessica Simpson w-a-y back in November last year; at the time it wasn't really confirmed or denied by her 'people' but NOW it's being shouted loud and proud from the rooftops (apart from the money bit, of course).

Jessica's opinion about her body also appears to have moved from 'never having felt so sexy' to 'I can't wait to get my body back' - in fact, what she's said is this, "After you have your baby it's like, "Oh my God, what happened to my body... this is not me"."

She's also said that she was planning to join Weight Watchers anyway, before she found out she was preggars - I wonder they would have offered a £2.5M deal without the promise of tons of baby weight piling on..? OOOH, I'm so cynical!

Jessica has also revealed that, "It would be nice to feel comfortable in a bikini, but that's not my goal. I just want to fit into jeans."

Little teeny, tiny Daisy Duke jean shorts...?  Goodness me, I hope not - at least not for a long while!