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If you are like millions of others right now you are contemplating starting a new weight loss plan. The New Year”s resolutions perennial favorite is losing weight. Big business is well aware of this and ads will target these potential customers. Exercise equipment, diet pills, diet food manufacters, and books will concentrate on influencing the overweight with thier solution to getting to the ideal weight they crave without stopping thier knowledge of which foods to eat to stop the weight gains which the food that they crave gives them.
Linda (http://www.examiner.com/x-798-Denver-LowCarb-Examiner~topic51903-Jenny-Craig)in an article titled “New Year’s diet plans: Resolve not to get ripped off ” writes the following;

Dr. Barry Groves, author of Eat Fat Get Thin and Natural Health & Weight Loss has a great understanding of the core issue. “The overweight are a ready source of income….They rely on you for a very comfortable living.”

According to a CBS report in December of last year, Americans spend somewhere near $35 BILLION PER YEAR on weight-loss products. Yet, for all that money spent, obesity rates are not going down. Not only are people making money off of you if you are fat, they aren’t doing what you paid them to do…help you get skinny.

So when you see the latest diet, the newest exercise gadget, or the hottest new weight loss pill, pause for a minute and think about those 35 billion reasons they are being pushed on you. Below are just a few examples of how an overweight person and their money can end up being parted.

Meal Programs: Jenny Craig and Nutrisystem are two well-known examples (though they are not the only ones). For a fee, they ship you prepackaged, pre-portioned foods. The good news is they will actually send you the food if you pay for it. The bad news is that you also have to purchase your own fresh vegetables, fruits and dairy and you could make the same foods for yourself for much less. As for those tv ads you see for these plans? Next time one pops up, look for the following words…RESULTS NOT TYPICAL. They are there on every single skinny person shown as an example of what their diets can do. The before and after photos are also misleading. In the case of Nutrisystem spokesperson Marie Osmond, she lost her weight while eating Nutrisystem foods AND working out and dancing 6 hours a day as part of Dancing with the Stars. Jillian Barberie’s 41 lb weight loss she credits to Nutrisystem may have had more to do with the fact that she GAVE BIRTH and her widely shown before photo is of her in a maternity dress.

What are the typical results? More like the results for diets in general, which have an abysmal failure rate of over 95%. Kirstie Alley, a former Jenny Craig spokesperson, is a good example. After losing 75 lbs, she was let go after regaining much of the weight 3 years later. Instead of forking over the money for a plan like this, take a cooking class instead.
At the end of the article she sums it up with the advice to read a few good books on low carb dieting and get a support group to help you stay focused. I couldn’t agree more. Save your money with the exception of purchasing a few good books and join an online weight loss forum on low carbs.