Free Weight Loss Plans

Free weight loss plans abound on the internet. Pop-up ads constantly invade your screen with big, bright, blinking words practically screaming about how you can skinny down with just the click of a button.

Newspapers, magazines, and the tabloids, especially, boldly offer the same too-good-to-be-true free weight loss plans except, thankfully, without the annoying blinking lights and sirens used so enthusiastically on the world wide web. And insomniacs everywhere know exactly which 1-800 numbers to call to access this too-good-to-pass-up answer to our overweight blues.

If these free weight loss plans are so effective and really free, everyone would already know about them and nobody would be fat. There's just no way to keep a secret like that. There'd be no need for even subtle advertising, much less the invasively aggressive full-throttle assaults most of us routinely dodge as we try to go about enjoying a peaceful life.

Good time to read the fine print.

The loudly proclaimed free weight loss plans come with more hidden fees, charges, and surcharges and high-dollar gizmos and gadgets than a credit card service agreement. Sure, the scaled-down version of these free weight loss plans doesn't cost anything, except maybe highly inflated shipping and handling charges. But that's just the come-on.

Once you've signed on the dotted line, furnished your bank and credit card access information, and promised to follow the directions of most of these free weight loss plans, you're likely to discover that the basic program you've "purchased" isn't very effective.

What to do now? The sellers of such free weight loss plans will now inundate you with all kinds of ways to part with your money that probably won't have anything to do with parting with your extra pounds.

To borrow words from a very slender lady, "Just say no."