How are we supposed to know which advice to take about the best way to lose weight? We have a diet industry that now turns over billions of dollars a year, yet most of it doesn't really work. We've researched this market, because like many others we were desperate to find a real fat loss solution.

We didn't want to have to keep buying diet products, so we looked for regimes written by nutritional experts. Responsible people that understood our needs and provided useful information. Good information is everything. This was our fundamental. We wanted education that would be on-going, not something that ate into our budget every week.

Our favorite chosen systems provide practical, usable knowledge. What they don't provide are wonder drugs that 'melt' the fat away! (That everybody knows don't really work!)

The authors of our shortlist really understand what it is to be overweight. They deal with the problem by teaching us workable solution-orientated habits. Your health will be greatly enhanced once you put the techniques into practice. As you begin to benefit from your new knowledge, the results will quickly follow.

There Is A Way Forward Then? You have our word - disguised as it was under all the hype from the diet industry. But real answers do exist.

Struggling with weight issues is a common problem for so many. We know how demoralising failed slimming attempts are. Sometimes we're successful for a while, then it all just becomes too much. So many attempts at losing weight end up failing - usually because the diets are not workable for more than a couple of weeks.

It's a little known fact, but professional sports people attribute a great deal of their performance to their diet program. We're not trying to suggest you should follow an athlete's program - simply that we can extract useful information about the 'fuel' the body works best on. Taking these results and developing them into optimal programs for real men and women has given us all the chance for successful weight management.

Yet it's very easy to do nothing. In one to two weeks, we could be seeing a reduction. But we'll get no-where if we always put things off. Just make the effort to get going. Half the battle is a mental one.