I don't think I would get my diet advice from Consumer Reports any sooner than I would ask my doctor about what car to buy.

I agree -- forget the dieting! Two things that have worked for me: 1) tracking what I eat on an online calorie/exercise counter, and 2) using my child as a good example. Should my child eat this? If no, then I shouldn't either. Is my child outside playing or taking a walk? Well, I should, too.
/great tips Jenny. Tx for sharing.

There is no magic bullet in any diet. But anyone based on sound scientific principles can work. I think it always helps to try different things like herbal supplements or distilled water, regardless of your overall diet plan. They can't hurt.

I'd be curious to know what Consumer Reports defines as "best results". Are they just measuring weight loss or weight loss & maintenance? I believe that the latter is the most important; keeping it off! I may be a little bit biased because I am using Weight Watchers to lose weight, but I just want to point out that it’s not just about staying within a certain number of points. The program is also about assigning a value to the foods that you are eating and the participant decides if it’s worth eating or not. It’s not a restrictive diet where you eat only premade meals or meals from a can. The weekly weigh-ins help with making you accountable for your actions. The scale doesn’t lie! The meetings are also a great tool to chat with others in the same boat as you, to gain knowledge, and swap tips that might work for others. I firmly believe that in order to loose weight and keep it off, most need to make a lifestyle change in their eating habits, not just a quick fix – which I believe Weight Watchers aims to do.

I've had more than one Dr recommend Weight Watchers as one of the best programs out there for weight loss and maintenance. I've never had a Dr recommend Jenny Craig.

I have been on them all WW four times at least, Atkins. no carbs all carbs you name it. Well last but not least Jenny--ok to start the food doesnt have one natural thing in it period--you dont know what the hell you are eating. After you loose the weight if you can stand it that long now what-and these personal advisers you have they have no degree what so ever.
Well finally I am going to a private nutritionist and for the first time in my life I am not hungry. I thought I knew it all OMG I dont. I am exercising and have have lost 22 pounds in six weeks and have never felt better. I have 25 more to go and II will do it this is a life style change PERIOD

Due to poor dietary habits, the frequency of overweight patients is increasing every day, resulting in a significant number ofcomplications associated with this disease, aging and premature death. There are also negative social effects and psychological.Overweight people are often teased and this leads to emotional problems not so easily expressed face.

People eat because they are lonely, poor, empty, afraid and also because they cannot sleep they eat all night long. They eat the wrong things because the wrong things taste good and are highly addictive. They live in a capitalistic society that tantalizes them with plenty of cheap terrible foods. Fat is also destiny at times. Not everyone who is fat is sick and not everyone who is thin is well. No diet that hawks pre prepared meals for a premium price will be successful for long, especially since the fattest among us are also the poorest who can't afford these diets. Sit less and move more and when you move, move less toward food--even the Jenny Craig kind-- and more toward more sex--expenditure of calories good on the sex front. Eat from small plates and drink from small cups. Eat slowly--chew your foods well--savor your foods--don't go for second helpings--don't eat on the run--cook at home--eat out less or not at all--eat all colors of fruits and veggies--end eating at 6 or 7 PM. Hang Jenny Craig and all her cohorts. Don't go to church--those who go to church get fat. Worship at home--if you are religious, if you are not you have been saved from the good lord who awaiteth for you with a sickle in hand--church pot luck lunches and dinners are heart attacks on platters--for the love of Jesus avoid them, religious people--even if you want to meet your maker fast. Most ministers need help with their midriffs and their jowls. Churches are obesity promoters, as are malls, as are restaurants, as are theme parks, as are holidays, as are travels, weddings, vacations-all things that run the American economy can make us fat--computers, gadgets galore, alcohol, supermarkets, stress--work stress, divorce stress, lack of work stress, wanting to divorce but can't divorce stress, stress from not being married, stress from being married, stress from not having children, stress from having them, stress from working at home, stress from working in a cubicle-- entire America is a "born to be fat" deal. Best way to avoid getting fat and staying the right weight for a good long time? Short of moving to sub Saharan Africa I can't think of any permanent remedy for this rapidly growing American growing problem although I will stick by my previous hard nosed, well thought out suggestions.
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It doesn't say what Consumer Reports rated the diets on. Best results? What does that mean quickest weight loss, weight loss maintenance, best adherence? Any diet with pre-made meals, such as Jenny Craig is easiest to follow because it takes the work out of deciding what one can and cannot eat. It may show "best" results, as in quickest weight-loss short-term but long-term it's not useful when people are faced with real food and situations in their own life.

How did Consumers Reports avoid the wraith of a media that knew its top ten diets were fraudulent? Advertising revenue from the various programs named play heavily into the medias conspiratorial silence. Disbelief reigned through the diet community after CR made their report that the most commerical of diet programs, Jenny Craig, was the best one for all. A lie is a lie is a lie. Perhaps a media outlet with the kahonies will publish the real list of programs that are medically peer reviewed and don't require a mortgage on your house to work. The Millenium Diet, The Practical Guide for Rapid Weight Loss was overlooked because it is economically inexpensive to apply and works. Shame on CR. Mark Davis, MD author of the Millenium Diet.