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Secret to ALL successful dieting: Eat fewer calories than your body uses

I watch probably far more television than I should, especially for a guy who reads the papers. But most of my work is done at home, and with no one to talk to but our old cat -- so I often leave CNN or some other cable news program running in the background as I blog. Helps me find ideas for my writing sometimes.

One of the things I see far too much of, because of that, are TV commercials. And one type of TV ads that particularly intrigues me are those for diets or diet pills. I find them amusing, not because I doubt the work. After all, following a sensible diet and even using a diet pill can be a great first step toward improving one's health.

What I find amusing is that special diet foods, prescription or nonprescription pills, all of them generally work (IF they work) because those who follow the diet or eat/swallow the food/pills, are consuming less calories and eating balanced meals or supplementing their food with quality nutrition.

In other words, any serious diet or diet pill works to some extent simply because of the fundamental success principle for dieting: fewer calories = loss of weight. That might be modified to include more activity. But fundamentally there is only one way to lose weight. You must consume fewer calories than your body uses. No matter what the diet plan, food, or food supplement you try -- if you put more calories into your body than you "burn off" or use up, you will not lose weight successfully.

Back to the basics, would be a good way to explain the best diet plans or diet supplements. Consume fewer calories than you use each day. You'll lose weight.
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