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• Weight Watchers is a frumpy diet plan.
• But for more than 40 years, it has slowly been doing the job of helping people lose weight.
• Consumer Reports' magazine conducted a diet analysis that found Weight Watchers is tops among popular, well-known diet plans for helping people lose weight and keep it off.
• What is the secret to their success?
• Eat less, exercise more, participate in weekly support group meetings.
• This edges out diet plans that exhort people to eat more and weigh less --- as long as you don't eat meat.
• That's Dr. Dean Ornish's vegetarian plan, which had a low retention rate.
• Plans with trendy names like the Zone, South Beach and Volumetrics also did not do as well.
• This doesn't mean that dropping pounds is ever easy.
• Successfully losing weight is a long-term endeavor.
• It's not a matter of making a new year's resolution and never breaking it.
• Rather, it's a continuous struggle for almost everybody.
• If you struggle with your weight, don't beat yourself up over it.
• Whether or not you use any specific plan, set goals, exercise more often and be disciplined when you eat.

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