Sticking to your guns to lose weight -- and keep it off

There is a trend in the weight loss industry that says that you and unique and special, so no single weight loss product or program is appropriate for everybody. This might be true to some extent -- some of us may have smaller weight loss goals than others -- but there are also certain inalienable truths to losing the weight and keeping it off. I find that going back to the basics is always a good way to go.

Then again, a book called Eat Right for Your Blood Type, authored by a Dr. Peter D'Adamo suggests that we need to configure a specific diet depending on our blood type. The idea is that we are all made differently, so we should customize a diet plan to meet our unique needs. However, I'm not sure that some of the author's suggestions, such as eating snails, would jibe with most of our sensibilities. The keys to weight loss as far as I'm concerned? A healthy, nutritious diet, some exercise and some natural supplementation.