Introduction
The New Year comes with resolutions of weight loss. Each year,
Americans spend over $30 billion in the weight loss industry.
There are hundreds of diet books and programs on the market, and
they each seem to have a different twist: low fat, high carbohydrate;
high fat, low carbohydrate; high protein; liquid supplements;
food combining; eat for your blood type; and many others. Finding
a program that is safe, realistic and effective long term is quite
a confusing task.
We have all heard the statistics: 95% of people who lose weight
subsequently regain it. This is because the majority of the diets
are fad diets that promise quick easy results, but unfortunately
end up in weight gain. Most programs do not focus on changing
behaviors. Therefore once you go "off" the diet, the weight is
regained. Most of the diets are also not realistic or even safe
to follow on a long-term basis.
