In Search of the Missing Links for Permanent Weight Loss

DONNA KRAMOLIS

1995 CONFERENCE PAPER

If you were to go on a diet to lose some weight, the standard thing to do is: eat nutritious food from the food pyramid totaling 1000 calories a day, eat no fat, eat carbohydrates and proteins and lots of fiber instead, and exercise 5 times a week. I don’t need to tell you all the details, you’ve done it before. The only thing is, it doesn’t work. We put the weight back on and then some. Sometimes,we only get five pounds off and stall. Only 2% of us keep it off for more than five years. It’s discouraging