Can I Lose Weight Fast and Easy?

Tom Venuto, author of the "Burn the Fat" manual in his Q&A column wrote: "Losing weight too quickly is one of the biggest mistakes you could ever make." On the long run, fast weight loss later results in metabolic problems and gaining the lost pounds back plus some. As to the "easy" part of the question, it is essentially individual. Many people perceive low carbohydrate approach as "easy" because it decreases appetite and allow to ignore counting calories while many others feel "uneasy" toward the same diets because they eliminate many important nutrients found in fruits and grains. Perhaps this is the reason of current decline in low carb diet popularity and the rise of popularity of more balanced South Beach and Sonoma diets. The bottom line is, there's no really easy solutions to long term and healthy weight loss but there can be more or less acceptable solutions, different for different persons with different needs.