January is ‘the’ month for diets. Diet companies are banking on your desire to undo that holiday eating and start your new year off right.  You’ll find a spike in fitness equipment sales, gym memberships bought and online diet ebooks downloaded.  What you’ll also find is that a lot of those same people are again in May or June hunting for more information having not lost any weight at all.

Serial Dieting: What’s the problem here?

Weight loss requires stamina that’s greater than your desire to eat your favorite foods. That’s the thing..you have to want to be thin more than you want that chocolate eclair or second helping of spaghetti and meatballs. You can buy a new treadmill and Pilates DVD in January and do all the fad diets you want in the month of January but unless you stick with it and change your eating habits, you’ll be petrified come spring when you realize it’ll soon be time to show more skin because you’ve not lost much or worse…you’ve gained MORE weight this winter.

So, what are you going to do?

Sure, it’s great to jumpstart with a fad diet. You’ll find plenty to choose from here on this very blog but you need to decide who’s going to win. Will it be food cravings or the desire to strip that fat away?

If you’re interested in jump starting 2009, here are some diets you might want to try:

Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle: $59.95  I’ve got this ebook but am not finished reading it at the time I write this post. So far it’s very intriguing and is definitely a great option for those who are willing to exercise and want to go from fluff to buff and get ripped this year.

Day Off Diet: $77.67  This is one I haven’t tried yet but follows a metabolism tricking theory that I definitely believe in. If you try it, I’d love for you to come back and tell me how you’ve done.

Idiot Proof Diet: $39 for an ebook and an online menu generator.  This one can help you lose 7-10 pounds in 11 days by giving you a menu plan you can follow with ten rules as well. I’ve done this one and it works and you can reuse the program time and again when you need including lifetime access to the menu plan generator. It even works for vegetarians. What I really like here too is the lack of deprivation. Between each 11 day cycle you have three days of eating whatever you want and because you’re tricking your metabolism, you’re actually helping the process by pigging out. Not too shabby! The last time I did this diet I’d put on ten pounds in several months of neglecting my health. I lost 7.5 pounds in 11 days!

Whatever you choose to do, it is possible for you to get slim and trim this year if it’s what you really and truly want. Do it healthfully!