Why 95% of All Diets Fail

Countless people struggle with weight loss and wonder what they’re doing wrong. They try FAD diets they read about on the Internet that promise rapid weight loss. But they never deliver.

The bottom line is this. If you’re going to lose weight and stay fit, you have to think long term lifestyle changes. You can’t eat a banana or a bowl of cabbage soup for three days and think you’ve succeeded in your weight loss goal. You haven’t. You’ve only developed a nasty habit of Yo-Yo dieting.

I know that’s probably not what you wanted to hear. Most people want instant gratification when they make that all important decision to get fit and lose weight. And while I will show you that you can actually jump start your metabolism so you can lose weight faster, it’s not instantaneous and it doesn’t come without hard work and dedication.

This statistic has been published all over the Internet and used by health care professionals for years because it’s true. I didn’t make it up. Let’s look at just a few numbers. Statistics show that about 40,000 people per year reach their weight loss goal. But when you consider programs like Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, NutriSystem and The Zone have millions of people who participate in their programs, that number is mighty insignificant and downright discouraging. Only 40,000 people out of millions reach their weight loss goal!

If you’re the one who is standing on the springboard of a new diet program, seeing a statistic like this can be deflating. It doesn’t motivate many people to even try to lose weight because a vast majority of those who diet and lose even a little weight will eventually put all that weight (and many times more fat) back on as soon as they stop dieting.

Bingo! Therein lies the problem. Diets are doomed to fail right from the start because most people view diets as a short term solution.

If you want to lose weight and keep that weight off, you need to stop thinking of a diet as a temporary fix. Everyone follows some form of a diet whether they know it or not. Unfortunately, most people follow an “unhealthy” diet which leads to weight gain, high blood sugar, and for some, obesity, high blood pressure and heart disease … More