Britons spend over a billion pounds a year on diet and weight loss programs , while Americans spend an astonishing thirty billion pounds on similar products and programs. What do these two nations have in common? Well, they are two of the fattest nations on earth and they have been losing the battle of the bulge for decades now.
While it is true that Americans are a bit heavier on average, the numbers for British citizens are not much better. According to a recent study, one out of every three Britons is overweight, while one out of every five is obese. The figures are particularly alarming when it comes to the number of obese children, which has nearly doubled in only a decade.
So, why are two nations that spend billions of pounds on diets and weight loss programs getting fatter and fatter? In the end, it is because diets simply do not work. In fact, according to a recent study, 95 percent of people who lose weight on fad diets end up gaining it all back in less than a year.
What is the solution? Should we simply give up? Well, yes and no. We should give up on fad and celebrity diets. To be blunt, they never, have never and will never work. Sure, they're good at cutting off five or ten pounds in short order, but once the person returns to his regular diet it all comes back.
The only effective solution we have found is to make minor alterations to your regular diet. After all, these are the foods you like, the ones you have likely been eating for years, and to ask you to change that overnight isn't just unreasonable, it's downright asinine.
Therefore, we suggest that you eliminate a few of the bad foods you eat over a period of a few weeks. This will help you reduce your calorific consumption by a few hundred calories a day without starving or depriving yourself of most of the foods you love.
