No doubt the weight loss product business in America is on a 35 billion Dollar roll. You will be shocked by the scores of products that hit the market regularly, to seduce the poor unsuspecting consumers to underwrite their sale. They sell your products based on your weight loss aspirations, be it five or fifty pounds. Every problem has a fast and almost overnight solution for them, and this can be physically achieved only by committed enthusiasm and self regulation. Let not your passion for weight loss translate into starvation and invite the hordes of diseases that you can live well without.

Medifast – The Latest Kid On The Block

The latest kind on the block in the weight loss arena is a product called Medifast, boasting being able to rid you of 2-5 pounds per week and its most popular version, “5 & 1” option replacing all five meals of a day, which are built around a single whole meal of lean meat with a lot of vegetables, taken at 2-3 hour intervals with plenty of water. Medifast has a product range of more than 70 items in the form of oatmeal, shakes, eggs, etc., and myriad flavors to satisfy every taste bud. It, however, comes with a heavy price tag of about US $ 75 per week. Now, let us assume that you have achieved the weight loss target of your dreams. The difficulty starts with maintaining yourself against the seduction of hogging and binging and the ever present risk of lapsing into the age old routines.

South Beach Diet – The Best In The Category

If the Atkins diet program was considered successful, South Beach Diet can be considered as the elder brother as they are sure to take on the mantle of the best weight loss program existing. The similarity between Atkins and South Beach extent to several areas but the similarity ends with the 15 day induction period when only a very limited carbohydrate diet is allowed. Contrary to all other diet programs which call for a reduction of intake at this time, south beach advocates three complete meals and uncontrolled snaking at will. They concentrate on segregating the good carbohydrates from the bad ones. It is estimated that the first fortnight could see a weight loss of 8-13 pounds to stabilize at 1-2 pounds per week, thereafter.

Summary

There is no dearth of weight loss substitutes doing their rounds of the market. Losing 50 pounds is not a Herculean task either, and success or failure depends on your own dedication and interest to achieve your goal in the time frame you have set.