Yet as a population we are becoming more obese

It’s true all diet and weight loss programmes do work and it’s also true that as a population we are becoming more overweight.

So how can this be! especially as the numbers of people beginning weight loss regimes increases every year ?

Obviously the diets work because you consume less energy than usual while on the diet or burn up more energy on the weight loss programme than you would normally burn up.

The reason the average weight is going up is to do with what people eat and what they do every day. What people eat and what they do every day before they go on a weight loss programme and what they eat and do in the days after they come off the weight loss programme.

If, before you go on a diet and weight loss programme you were consuming more energy than you burn up, the chances are that when you finish the diet and weight loss programme you will return to the lifestyle that you know. Then you will begin to regain the weight you have lost and as statistics show, probably even more.
So the problem doesn’t lie with the diet and weight loss programme that you follow, although some are far better than others, the real problem lies with your everyday lifestyle.
Your daily energy consumption verses your daily energy expenditure, not just for the duration of the diet and weight loss programme, but every day.

Instead of concentrating on a diet and weight loss programme to lose weight, your real effort should be centred on establishing a lifestyle with good habits. Before considering a diet and weight loss programme establish a healthy well balanced diet, an exercise programme that delivers at least what we know to be the minimum amount of aerobic exercise for a healthy heart and daily routines that are purposefully active rather than sedentary.

Once these lifestyle changes are well established if you still need to lose weight it will be easy and permanent.