Do diets work?

I have seen some commercials suggestions that diets do not work. In a way that is true if you consider that diet actually means the food you eat rather than something someone put together to try to lose weight. The typical american diet does not work today because food today has less nutritive value than even 30 years ago-no lie-they did a study & found this to be true. That diet also has tons of convenience foods in it & lots of processed foods. Let's face it, its called convenience food because it is convenient. But much is lost in the processing of our foods. So much so that the AMA is even saying that we need to supplement our diet with vitamins.
I can't tell you how many times I have heard people say, I've tried every diet & nothing works. Why is that? My Top 10 diet suggestions;

1. Everyone is different, there is no one size fits all diet. Take my brother for example. I got him on a program & at first he was doing well, but he couldn't stick to it. He also tried the Adkins, same thing. Then he tried Weight Watchers, bingo. For him success was in the points. It wasn't that the other things he tried didn't work, they just didn't work for him. There are so many diets out there and nobody has truly tried them all but if you have tried many, many & none have worked then its time you just concentrate on eating healthy.
2. Whatever diet you choose does not get rid of cravings. Ok, this may sound strange but cravings come from two things, not enough water or not enough nutrition. If you know you are drinking enough water, then you need to supplement your diet because something is missing. Like I said in an earlier post, I used to crave sugar-all my life-but once I supplemented my diet, no more cravings.
3. Diets make me crabby or tired or both. See number 2 & only weigh yourself every 3 days.
4. Another common complaint; 'I don't have any willpower'. See two & understand that studies show people who have a support group have better long term success in losing & maintaining that weightloss. These days there are weight loss challenges, Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig- just to mention a few places where someone is there to support you.
5. And another; "I have trouble with portion control." Get smaller dishes & don't have seconds.
6. And yet another; "I don't even know what to eat!" No problem. Join a weight loss challenge. Not only will they give you a 12 week nutrition course, $30.00 of your entry fee is paid back out to the biggest losers-not gonna get that at any of the other places & they will give you a meal plan too.
7. I'm too sick, fat or (or whatever), I was thinking of bariatic surgery. What are you kidding!!?? Hello, your colon is where you body gets its nutrition, most of those procedures severely limit you ability to absorb nutrition not to mention the additional operations you're gonna need for all that excess skin! Diet properly & your skin shrinks WITH you. Start with a colon cleanse instead, then pay close attention to your nutrition. And that cleanse is good for everyone not just the morbidly obese.
8. There are so many diets out there, people can get overwhelmed. How do you choose one? That is actually easier than you would think. Any diet program should stress water, fruits & veggies-in other words-nutrition above all. When your body gets what it needs, it lets what it doesn't need go. This is not to say that you can have as much as you want as long as its a fruit,veggie or meat no you still need to have only as many calories as needed for someone your height & lifestyle.
9. Water, water, water.
10. You say you aren't a dietician. No problem. See #4 or go online where there are any number of websites that list pretty much every food, including fast food, nutritional & caloric counts & print it out.

Now, I could tell you that buying a program from me is the only way to go but I am not going to do that. Sure it would be nice but...the purpose of my posts are to help other people & you don't know me or my products not to mention that there really are many 'diets' that work. My programs just make it easier for people to lose or maintain their weight & feel great at the same time. Really if you stop to think about it, who doesn't want to eat pie for breakfast & lunch? Could it be any easier than that?