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Once upon a time people believed “self help” was a fairly “soft” or ineffective way of getting results, and most people believed that online weight loss programs simply couldn’t deliver the results of face-to-face weekly meetings.

But in fact there are 2 important reasons why it’s time to go online for weight loss.

The first thing you need to know is that studies demonstrate very clearly that diet meetings don’t work for nearly 100% of people, so measuring another weight loss method against diet meetings is a waste of time! Merely looking at the minority of people who stay on the diet and keep attending the meetings, less than 2% of them can maintain their success for more than 12 months. For more than 98%, the weight returns much faster than they lost it, plus more, because the dieting has decreased their metabolism (and their ability to burn fat).

The next reason is that studies also show very clearly that people DO get results from online help, and that those success rates are much the same as having your own private therapist!

Rest assured, some people who choose an online weight loss program will still need the close support and supervision of a mental health specialist, but likewise online programs are proving their effectiveness across a range of issues: anxiety, weight loss, depression, quitting smoking, relationship issues, chronic pain, etc.

And surely the aim of all kinds of help is to support you to be self reliant in any case!
When you select a self-help program for weight loss, it's of vital importance that you decide on one that has been proven to be effective in clinical trials. New-age methods rarely work and can result in wasted time, money and effort, and can even do damage.

In the same way as new-age approaches are mostly ineffective, not every conventional treatment is worthwhile either. Old-fashioned psychology is all but useless for most people, and the "gold standard" of therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, has practically no scientific proof behind it. To the contrary, meta analyses show it to be no better than placebo.

So when you select your weight loss program, online or offline it's worth noting that testimonials should never be accepted as proof. Just consider all those testimonials regarding the use of hypnosis to quit smoking. But when you read actual scientific trials, you see that fewer than 1% of people give up smoking with hypnosis.

Even smart people have been hoodwinked by a long list of testimonials, so remind yourself that testimonials don't provide evidence, and that professional therapists NEVER use them in any case, because that would be a breach of the client-therapist relationship.

So the the message is, we encourage you to use a self-help approach to weight loss, and at the same time we encourage you to
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