And If You're Really Desperate...

Given all the bogus weight loss schemes out there, this one will actually work if anyone is this dedicated.  In a study back in the 1970s, a group of researchers tried to determine if exercising in the cold would increase weight loss in the obese.  When you're exercising in cold weather, you body has to produce both the energy needed for the activity and the energy needed to keep warm.

The researchers took six obese men and had them exercise 3 and 1/2 hours a day, for 10 consecutive days in a "cold chamber" (minus 29 degress Fahrenheit).  After the ten days of fun, the subjects had lost 8.8 lbs, and sustained this weight loss in the following months.  So if you're really impatient, there is always a way!