Weight Loss Methods are a bit like daisies in spring. They're forever popping up and many of them are seasonal. The weight loss industry is worth more than a couple billion dollars a year.
And I'm not just talking about the crazy eating plans, pills, powders, potions and patches, I'm talking about TV programs like 'The Biggest Loser', well established weight loss methods like Weigh Less, Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig and so on.
From self-help, to group help, to online help, to pre-packaged food help, the weight loss methods tried by millions upon millions, often more than once continue to grow and expand in their numbers and creativity.
We're an ever trusting (actually to be truthful - I was just ever-gullible, but I prefer to think of myself as over-trusting), ever hopeful bunch. We cling to the belief that the next diet that pops up is going to be 'the one' that will forever end our body woes.
There's an almost exhaustible list: The Warrior Diet, The Sacred Heart Diet, 1 Day Diet, 2 Day Slim Down, 5 Day Miracle Diet, 7 Step Diet, American Longevity, Anorex (hey - at least it sounds honest), Apple Cider Vinegar Diet, Body for Life, Blood Type Diets, Cabbage Soup Diet, Brown Rice Diet, Cookie Diet, Ice-cream diet (yum! yum!).... blah, blah... you get the picture!
We tread the well worn Monday 'diet calendar' as this humerous 3 minute video shows:
Well over time I'm going to be taking a more in depth look at some of these weight loss methods and sharing with you the psychological reasons behind why I don't think you get diets that work.
As far as I'm concerned diets that 'work' need to free you permanently from:
• calorie counting
• being a slave to the scale
• endlessly stressing about weight
• thinking of exercise as a boring chore
• ever dieting ever again - you have to be liberated from them.
Feeling like a guilty failure is no way to get thin or healthy and most diets and diet programs are BIG on those. Forget searching for diets that work. I'm a great believer in the power of self-love, self-kindness and self-respect. Those are the principles around what I have to offer you is based. Those are healing and healthy.
But before you go further, I really believe that most weight loss methods are fads because you can't live like that permanently. Check out all the many ways that all those diets that 'work' don't really.
In fact, read these stories about 'diet failures' and why I think they found something that 'worked.'
You may watch this TV program and be impressed with the weight loss some of the contestants seem to be losing, but I watch them with a kind of fascinated horror.
Click here to find out why.
Weight Watchers
Ever since it started becoming a main stream belief that 'diets don't work', Weight Watchers have wised up and are changing their weight loss advertisements. But
here's why
I think it's the same old diet just wrapped in different packaging!
Weight Loss Surgeries
They're performed on the 'morbidly obese' as a health measure - but just how 'healthy' are they? Click here to find out