Big FAT Lie: The Center for Medical Weight Loss

At any given time, half the women in the United States are on a diet. If you put “diet” into Google, you'll get 19,300,000 results. There's big money in the weight loss business, but some weight loss web sites are crap.

    

If you want to know whether or not a diet is legitimate, look for wild claims:

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  Lose 21 pound in 4 weeks.
  
• 99% lose weight and keep it off.
  

In defense of CMWL , in teeny, tiny print (point 6) at the bottom of the page, they have a disclaimer.

Based on a stratified sample of 349 patients over a six-year period. Patients must have remained on the program for a minimum of 28 days and be monitored with at least two physician visits within first 31 days to be included in the study. 99% of the patients that followed the CMWL program, including a low calorie diet and individual counseling with CMWL physicians, from one month up to a year, weighed less at their last weigh-in than their starting weight.

Well golly gee whiz, anyone who consistently eats fewer calories will lose weight. DUH! You don't have to sign up for their program for that.


Secondly, weighing less at your last weight-in is not “keeping it off.”

Then, there's the graph above. It looks like you lose fat and gain muscle, but none of the information discusses an exercise porgram.  And the numbers at the side … what do they mean? Pounds? Percent? It makes no sense.


You are the key to whether or not your weight loss plan is a success. If you need outside help, find a more credible source!
 

See for yourself at http://www.centerformedicalweightloss.com/