Once upon a time “self help” was thought to be a fairly “soft” or ineffective way of improving health or wellbeing, and most people believed that online weight loss programs couldn’t possibly match the success of the live diet meetings.
But now the stats are in, and an entirely different picture has emerged. The first thing we see is that weight loss programs that rely on diets or food plans simply don’t work anyway. Less than 2% of people manage to maintain a healthy weight using that type of weight loss approach, and most people in fact actually put weight on because of dieting.
Secondly, studies also show very clearly that people DO get results from online help, and that those results are very similar to the effect of having your own personal therapist!
Of course people with serious issues like trauma or personality disorders will still require more intensive support, but for the overwhelming majority of people seeking help with weight loss, or smoking cessation, relationship problems, depression, anxiety, etc, online programs present the cheapest and best quality result that they can possibly get.
And the aim of all help is to support you toward self reliance in any case!
In choosing a self-help program for weight loss, it’s really important that you choose one that has been proven in clinical trials. New-age methods are not generally successful and can result in wasted time, money and effort, and can even do damage.
Likewise be aware that not all conventional approaches to weight loss are worthwhile either! For example cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is often regarded as highly-effective, and many studies claim that this is the case. But analysis of those studies shows that the conclusions are not valid, and that CBT is little better than placebo (sugar pills). So you do need to do your research.
In choosing your online weight loss program it’s worth noting that testimonials should never be regarded as evidence. For instance there are many testimonials regarding the use of hypnosis to quit smoking. But when you examine actual scientific trials, you see that less than 1% of people give up smoking by using hypnosis.
Why don’t testimonials mean anything? Because for every testimonial praising the program, there are likely to be several hundred people who got zero result!
So the evidence is sufficient for you to feel deeply confident about using an online weight loss program, provided you check the research that underpins the program, and you check to make sure the support forum is run by qualified professionals, not just moderated by members of the general public who are also trying to lose weight.
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