On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 10:14:53 -0500, "Jenny"
wrote:

Folks,

The big Low Carb marketing blast you saw in January was part of the
regularly scheduled "diet season" which comes around every year after people
put on their holiday 10 pounds. It ends every year, like clockwork, with
the Superbowl. Around the same time gyms clear out as all the people who
signed up for memberships stop coming.

Sure have.

If you're still dieting now, you are one of the very small percentage of
people who are--and there are not enough of you to make it worth while for
supermarkets to clear out a whole aisle for you.

Saw this yesterday. Gone, gone gone.

But if you ask around among your friends and acquaintances who went on diets
on January first, you'll probably find that very few are still at it six
weeks later. . . .

Why is that?

Several reasons. One, no real commitment to the realities of lowered
food consumption. Two, they know that book diets fail at extravagant
rates. Three, no change in their relationships with food.

Others?

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