Why doesn't dieting ever seem to work?

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that diets don't work. If they did, why does every adult American weigh, on an average, eight pounds more than they did ten years ago? If diets delivered on all the promises they made, why are a third of us - not just fat - but obese?

Some of us put ourselves through this process of pain and punishment on a regular basis - every Monday or every New Year's Day or every time we see a new diet touted in the women's magazines. Those diets you keep trying are never going to permanently take the weight off. We've been brainwashed into believing that dieting keeps us slim.

If we can just refrain from eating that extra piece of pie, if we can just follow the recipes in the back of this book or that book, if we can just deprive ourselves of enough calories, our weight will magically disappear and we'll all live happily ever after. What's the number-one thing you think about when you start a diet? Food, particularly fattening food that you can't wait to eat again when the grueling ordeal is finally over.

Even the spelling of the word should give us a clue. Who wants to do anything that has the word "die" in it? Psychologically (not to mention physiologically), diets are never going to fly.

They go against human nature. Even though we look to diets for answers, we subconsciously put up our dukes, become defiant. On the outside, we're saying, "I want to be thin.

I'm going to quit eating waffles and French toast for breakfast.

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