People Who Are Overweight Continues To Rise

Every year more and more people go on a diet and yet the number of people who are overweight continues to rise. Diets are clearly working for the diet industry, but not for dieters. The question has to be asked - do diets work? Going on a diet can result in short-term weight loss, but diets fail to deliver what every dieter desperately wants to achieve, and that is permanent weight loss.

Losing weight is not just about what and how much you put into your mouth. It's about making change. Unless you take steps to change your behaviors, you will never achieve permanent weight loss. Recognising old behaviors and learning new habits, slim habits, is the only way to give yourself the chance to achieve permanent weight loss.

Traci Mann, who is a psychologist at UCLA has been doing some very interesting work on the effectiveness of diets. She didn't take just one or two diets, she studied 31 - and over a period of between two and five years. What she discovered is that for the majority of people, diets don't lead to better health benefits or sustained weight loss.

So what can you expect if you go on a diet? Short-term weight loss is the short answer. You may be able to lose up to 10% of your body weight. You might think that's a pretty good result until you realise that within a very short space of time you will have put the weight back on again - with interest! This is what happens in the majority of cases - well over 90% in fact.

We live in interesting times. Change is happening all around us and is accellerating every day, yet we seem to be reluctant to embrace change when it comes to our own lives. Scientists - specifically neuroscientists and psychologists - have made some amazing discoveries in recent years: discoveries that have opened up the workings of how our brain and body function and interact, for example. They have given us the opportunity to use this new found knowledge to develop ways of helping us to make change by learning new habits - slim habits, if you like.

Making change is not difficult, but it helps to have a program that supplies a knowledge base and also a means of offering long-term support. We need help and a formal structure if we are to identify our old behaviors and learn new habits. We have to have a means of taking control of our lives to make long-term change. It needs to be a program of learning and where we can discover our true strength and resolve.

Programs that open the door to a new slimmer, healthier life will be the ones that help to identify the behaviors that caused overweight to occur in the first place and provides the means and support to learn new habits that lead to permanent weight loss. For those struggling to lose weight permanently, the big weight could soon be over.

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