Achieving permanent weight loss is about only one thing - consistency. No gym membership, no online diet plan or personal training programs can help you achieve permanent weight loss more than your own discipline and consistent effort at maintaining the weight you truly want.

The problem in America with weight loss is that it is a fad, and not a lifestyle. People here cannot be healthy because their mentalities do not allow them to be. In a world of convenience, quick results, impatience and overrall laziness, people want speedy results without the work to achieve them. Well, guess what - permanent weight loss isn't something you can buy or "Get done" - it is a consistent mindfulness of every meal you eat and every day you live to live actively, eat well and keep the pounds off - not because you "have to" - but because you want to. And that's what makes it permanent. No matter how good any program is, if you are doing it because you think you have to, you will eventually drop it in lieu of something more comfortable and the weight will come back.