Most people know that the diet industry is huge, but did you realise that it’s worth about $61 billion a year? While that’s good news for those flogging diet products, it’s not good for the normal person who just wants to lose some weight and keep it off. That number is an indication of the fact that most diets don’t work, and most people just regain the weight that they lose, if they manage to lose it in the first place – before forking out for yet another diet plan or bottle of pills.
And it doesn’t have to be like that! If you want to lose weight, but don’t want to be contributing to those huge diet industry profits, you need to decide that finding a plan that gives long term results is more important than one that gives a rapid weight loss ‘quick fix’. 
Are you willing to let the weight come off at a slow, sustainable pace, to give up on the gimmicky diet pills, to learn (if necessary) about healthy eating and nutrition, to get some regular exercise, to really make the effort to retrain your eating habits and make permanent changes?
Because there’s no magic pill, no miracle diet, no way of losing weight and keeping it off without doing these things. And it’s not always easy to make changes, especially if you’ve been practising unhealthy habits for years on end, but it can be done. Maybe you want to drop some pounds before Christmas and are tempted to go on yet another crash diet, or maybe you’re thinking of making weight loss one of your new year’s resolutions for next year but whatever the motivation, please do your body the favour of adopting a sensible, long term plan that will enable you not only to lose weight now, but to keep it off, and to preserve your health in the process. If more people did that, there would be a lot of happier, healthier people in the world, and the ‘quick fix’ merchants who contribute so much to the diet industry’s profits would thankfully be out of business.
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