Statistics show that the weight loss industry profits at over forty billion dollars in revenue each year. Let's face it , who doesn't know how to eat healthier and that you need to exercise if you want to lose weight ? We all do. Most of us who have been to weight loss programs or on the new diet of the week can tell you what it takes . The problem is they can't do it . They just can't change their behaviors long enough to either lose the weight or if they lose it they can't make the lifestyle changes required to maintain a healthier body and almost always go back to the old ways and put the weight back on . Worse yet most people gain even more and end up weighing much more over time than when they first started . So, what's the problem ? First let's look at some of the better known weight loss programs available .

Weight Watchers - They write on their website ; "Learn to make positive changes to lose weight and keep it off." I wonder what the statistics show of all past members of who lost weight and actually was able to keep it off ? Like most reputable weight loss programs they are a source of good information , support and whatever else you need to know. But again , it's all an approach of using will power, conscious force , in order to change the behaviors that created weight gain . Folks , if this approach worked , we'd all reach our goals, be thin and happy and the profit made in the area of weight loss would nose dive . Evidence proves this approach is futile or at best, a winning struggle for a small percentage of those who use it.

Believe it or not , the best component of any weight loss program is hypnosis . The reason why (people eat when not hungry or eat past being physically full is emotional . Weight loss with hypnosis is based on the subconscious programming of food being needed as the substance thing used to feel good , cope with life , feel protected or whatever the issue . If you could only focus on the body, we are missing the main target of why the behaviors are what they are . Behaviors are based in the mind, not the body.

LA Weight Loss - The issue that has been reported about LA WeightLoss is that it is expensive . You have to buy their product which is where they get you . And again, you're pretty much left on your own when at home to struggle through the nagging, haunting, insanity driven thoughts about wanting to eat in ways that will make you fat or fatter . Meanwhile , they too use well known people to endorse their program .

Jenny Craig - Another buy our food program and endorsed by a celebrity . If I'm going to hook my wagon to a weight loss company that's proven , I want to see a person working full time or 2 jobs , kids , a hectic lifestyle children and not so much expendable income . Show me how to get through each day dealing with the pressures of life that are what's driving me to want to stuff my face with sweets that makes me feel good . I mean really. Too bad those "feel good" foods are what add fat to the body easier than grade school addition .

South Beach Diet - Yet another low carb approach method to weight loss . The problem isn't whether or not you eat carbs . Thin people eat bread, pastas and other carbs we are warned to avoid . The problem is eating them to excess . When we balance our food intake and include daily activity , we have a much better chance at the struggle that comes with all weight loss programs.

NutriSystem - Once again a company appears that is in the selling food market . I didn't know that if you want to be thin you had to purchase secret food that only the weight loss program has available . Doesn't my local grocer carry healthy food that will assist me in my weight loss struggle ? I wonder where all those fit , trim, skinny people buy their food who don't belong to a weight loss program ?

Atkins - Remember when the Atkins Diet was the rage ? So, what happened? Maybe people realized after a while that like any other magic weight loss program , special eating plan or food products sold through the program plan that it wasn't the magic or top secret formula to weight loss . That's why after all this time , money spent , time and effort looking for the magic formula , we're still fat !