Does your diet have you spending more time reading labels than you do eating? Whether you're counting fat grams, carbs, sugar grams or fiber, analyzing every little thing you eat can take all the fun out of food. It can also keep you from sticking to your diet and actually make you fatter in the long run.

Many nutritionists and weight loss experts are starting to realize that there's a better way to lose weight, permanently, safely and much more easily than with constant counting. While we're not as far advanced with this method as dieters in other more enlightened countries, the idea for this new method of weight loss is starting to appear here and there in the US.

Maybe you've seen a magazine article that explains why counting calories very seldom results in permanent weight loss. Or maybe you've tried it yourself and felt like a failure when you couldn't stick with it. There's no need to feel like you didn't measure up. Very few people can stay with a plan that radically changes the way they like to eat and has them analyzing their food like scientists.

If your weight loss plan is still stuck in the past of calorie or carb counting, isn't it time you found a new, better way to slim down and still enjoy eating? Dieting isn't the answer, but changing the way you eat the foods you love is.

Instead of fighting your appetite for your favorites, and trying to make yourself like boring, repetitive exercises, find a new way of eating and moving to lose weight. Food is more than just calories and grams of this and that. Food is comfort and sharing with friends. It's also flavors to savor and satisfy our tastebuds and our soul.

Try a few simple but effective changes in your eating habits, instead of adding and subtracting grams and calories and you may find that losing weight is not the nightmare you thought it would be. With some guidance and a good weight loss plan, you can have what you need: weight loss - for life.