The ultimate, permanent weight loss secret is this: You must find a plan that allows you to get nourished and satisfied within a reasonable energy deficit.  Then you must follow that plan to completion, and return to it if you begin to re-gain.  Catherine Gordon, the author of Sugar Freedom at www.sugarfreedom.com, has helped her clients lose literally thousnads of pounds and inches for good.  Now at the start of a 2 week Sugar Freedom/True Body Challenge, she shres the techniques to help her readers and students succeed.