Originally published May 25 2005
Weight Watchers tops list of long-term effective diets
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Consumer Reports magazine analyzed popular, well-known diet plans and found that Weight Watchers tops the list for weight lost and kept off. But it's not an easy process -- shedding pounds is a long-term commitment, not a magic bullet, like the Zone diet and the South Beach Diet. The key to Weight Watchers' success is to eat less, exercise more and participate in weekly support group meetings.
- 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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