Diet Industry methods and all other physically-based methods fail primarily because they attack symptoms rather than root causes. But they also fail because they treat all humans as essentially identical--as the same basic "biological units." This one-size-fits-all mentality results in a "cookie-cutter" approach that totally ignores the unique, individual qualities and characteristics God gave you personally that make you who you are.
What almost no one in the Diet or Healthcare Industries seems to understand is that each of us has our own, unique reasons for being overweight. And unless we identify and change our personal root causes of obesity, we can't possibly win. But just in case you still think modern medicine has the answer to your weight problem, here's a real eye-opener.
Do you know what surgeons tell their patients before they go "under the knife" for weight loss surgery? During a recent TV special about obesity in America, a patient asked the doctor, "Is this going to be a permanent solution to my weight problem?" The doctor's response was, "If you make the necessary behavioral changes after surgery, then you'll lose weight and keep it off."
Wow, did that doc ever spill the beans.
Although the patient didn't pick up on it, I sure did. The doctor was actually making a powerful admission: That the real key to weight loss success is not in the surgery, but in making the necessary behavior changes.
So the real question we all should be asking is this: Knowing that, wouldn't it be infinitely smarter to go directly to the behavior changes...and spare ourselves all the pain, expense, anguish, and scars that surgery involves?
The tragic reality of weight-reduction surgery is that virtually everyone who undergoes it gains back all of their weight in three to five years anyway. Why? Now you know why. Because they still haven't dealt with the root causes of why they were overweight to begin with.
The simple truth is that nobody succeeds at weight loss without making the necessary behavior changes. If you try to make these changes through will power and gritty determination, you're sure to fail. In fact, the research proves that people who rely on will power are most likely to gain weight, not lose it.
But if you make your changes where it counts--in the core attitudes and beliefs that motivate your daily behaviors--then success will become just as inevitable as failure used to be.
So the "bottom line" on weight loss success is this:
