"exercise," because of the popularity of "The Biggest Loser," but why doesn't exercise work for everybody? Some people think of "surgery" for weight loss, due to overblown multimedia advertising. Why would anyone go to the extreme of abdominal surgery for weight loss? If weight reduction surgery were really as magical as the advertisers wanted you to believe, then why doesn't it work for everyone? "Lap-Band" Surgery is potentially very dangerous, with the potential for permanent problems later in your life that rival those of obesity. It's overly extreme, and the wrong treatment! Put that kind of crisis-care last on your list!
You may have a problem with excess weight and an inability to lose weight because your body has been triggered into a functional "survival mode physiology." In "survival mode," your body keeps wanting to store excess weight, no matter how little you eat. When your body's nervous system pathways become irritated or confused, your whole body can respond to food differently than normal. If your body reacts to your everyday life as if it were in a survival crisis —needing to save and store fat— then it is only reacting as it would in a real, desperately needed survival crisis! Your body survives perfectly, as you become fat, which is not in your long-term best interests. You don't want to store fat, you want to lose fat and lose weight!