Sifting through diet and exercise nonsense this holiday season

Have you had it up to here with all the magazine diets and infomercial diets? With the holiday season reaching its peak, more dieting nonsense than ever is coming out of the woodwork. This is probably due to all the excess eating many of us are doing and with New Year's resolutions coming right up.

But which of these work and which don't? That's impossible to answer, as all these diets -- no matter how zany -- will always have a success story behind it.

Top-of-the-mill candidates of recent years carry names like Weight Watchers, South Beach Diet and Atkin's. These aren't fad diets really, and they all work (according to all the people I've spoken with who are using each method to lose -- and maintain -- a lower weight).

Want some others to consider, though? Try these on for size after doing some research on each one to see which of them caters to your style and personality. Who knows -- maybe one will work for you in the long term. But, I doubt it will be in pill form or working "while you sleep."