The Diet Experts Have It All Wrong!

Take a look at the overwhelming amount of information about food, dieting and exercise and it's easy to see why losing weight and keeping it off is a problem in this country. Nothing the experts are telling us to do is working - and that's a fact.

No matter where you turn to on diet sites, food sites, exercise sites, health forums, weight loss and management blogs or just about any other forum, the discussions and the solutions about weight loss are not really about weight loss. They are about what food is good for you, what food is bad for you, how much you should eat, when you should eat, what kind of exercise you should do, when you should exercise etc, etc, etc.

I believe that what's missing in all of the forums is an honest discussion about whether what the experts talk about is actually the issue. From my point of view little of what the experts tell us really gets at the root of the challenge to weight loss and that is - how do we get control of our eating habits.

Virtually all of these forums are designed to show you how to eat as much good tasting, healthy food as you can... without blowing up like a balloon. Rarely do you see a discussion about just getting excess food out of your life. And I think there's an obvious reason - fat is money.

Tens of thousands of businesses, including this one, exist because people don't want to weigh so much. But telling people to lose weight by changing the way they live, gradually, over time, is just not very glamorous and you can't package it. And in our fast paced world of, "I want results right now", most people are not willing to pay if they don't see instant results. There is simply no market in this country for "not eating so much" because our whole way of life is centered on it and the amount of money made in the food industry is staggering.

If you don't believe that our society revolves around food then ask yourself "when was the last time I went to any kind of social, sporting or community event where food and drink wasn't offered." We are quite simply a nation of people who can't do anything without eating or drinking something.

It's time for us to realize that the challenge we face with trying to lose weight is not that we lack ways to do it, it's that we lack ways to do it that work.