Frequently Asked Questions

Your goal is to lose weight and to keep it off. You want to improve your health and to look better. Accomplishing this boils down to one simple rule: take in (eat) fewer calories than you burn off through physical activity. Easier said than done, though, right?

When going it alone doesn’t work, you can turn to weight-loss programs. They offer diet routines for you to follow that have a proven track record.

Built-in support is available to help keep you on track.

Many programs even provide a set menu and deliver the food right to your door. This takes the guess-work out of calorie counting and food preparation.

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed than dieters using a structured online weight-loss program were more than twice as likely to lose weight and keep the pounds off as those who tried to go it alone.

Online programs offer a wide range of dieting support, including weight monitoring, progress guidelines, and peer encouragement. They also offer the advantage of privacy. Many dieters find it comforting to be able to access the support tools of an online weight-loss program from the comfort of their own homes. Dieting is, after all, a personal matter, and it is often easier to stick to a program when you don’t feel like you are being judged by others.

Not if you are serious about losing weight and keeping it off – and concerned about your health. Many over-the-counter diet pills are untested and unproven – and some are downright dangerous to your health. While some diet pills and crash diets may help you drop some weight quickly, it is more likely to be water weight than a reduction in body fat.

Yo-yo dieting – where you repeatedly lose and regain the same ten pounds – adds stress to your heart and plays havoc with your body systems. As each pound returns, frustration and anxiety mounts.

An important advantage to joining a weight-loss plan is that you learn to change your eating habits in a way that is healthy, sustainable, and pleasurable. You won’t fit into that slinky bathing suit by this weekend – but you may by the time next summer comes around.

No! Remember, losing weight means not only restricting how many calories you take in, but increasing how many you burn.

This doesn’t mean you need to join a gym or train to be a long-distance runner – it just means that you need to increase your activity. Simply walking more and deciding to take the stairs are good ways to burn extra calories.

Exercise is good for your heart, increases your metabolism, helps regulate your body chemistry, and even reduces your appetite.

Make a point of consulting with a doctor before undertaking any rigorous exercise routine – especially if you are severely overweight or have any other underlying health issues.

This is not a good idea. Just as you wouldn’t take more medicine than your doctor’s recommended dosage, you want to stick to your plan’s diet routine.

Gradual weight loss is healthier and more likely to be long-lasting than crash dieting. For one thing, when you reduce your caloric intake drastically your body acts as if it is starving and holds onto its fat – making it even harder to lose weight. Weight-loss plans take this into account and structure diets that allow the body to burn fat without inducing pangs of hunger.

No diet plan can work if you don’t stick to it – and you are not going to stick to a diet plan that forces you to eat only food you don’t like. Different diet plans cater to people with different tastes.
When you choose a plan, make sure it allows you to eat foods that you enjoy and find satisfying – otherwise, no matter how many other people have followed the plan successfully, you’ll be unhappy and counting the days (and calories) until you quit.
Some plans focus on avoiding entire classes of foods (low-carb/low fat diets) while others assign a point system to all types of foods so that you maintain a healthy balance. Choose the approach you feel more comfortable with – that’s the one you’re more likely to stick to.

The price can range greatly – particularly if you choose a plan that includes food delivery. Without food delivery, plans may charge as little as $2.99 per week. You can expect to pay between $12.00 and $39.99 per day for plans that do provide food.

No weight-loss program is going to give you your money back if you don’t lose enough weight – although some do offer to extend your contract for free if you don’t reach a particular goal. This, however, is not typical. Some meal-delivery systems offer a “satisfaction guarantee” if you don’t like the food – which usually involves returning unused portions.

You may have seen other consumer comparison sites that present “reviews” of various competing offers, but always manage to steer you to a single “best bet” or “top choice.” You can be sure that “best bet” is the company the comparison site is really doing business with – and all the other information is just filler.

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