If you read part one of this series, you know that we're talking about a new way of looking at weight loss -- a new way for a new year.

Which brings us to Gary Null.

Gary, who has long been one of the guiding lights of the wellness community, just published his umpteenth book, Gary Null's Ultimate Anti-Aging Program, and it deserves to be read by anyone interested in living a healthy, vibrant life. But among the hundreds of pages of information about antioxidants, phenols, exercise, healing strategies and the like, one fact stood out for me, one piece of information that was critically important to all of us in the weight loss field. It is this one fact, just a footnote in Gary's book, that inspired this column.

Gary traveled across the country testing his program on thousands of people. He worked with randomly selected volunteers in five cities. He designed their diets and their supplement program, and he measured the results by checking dozens of parameters. He measured things like cholesterol level, energy, freedom from disease, weight loss, reduction of symptoms from illnesses, personal sense of well-being and vigor, and the list goes on.

And what he found was this: The program worked. For those who stuck with it.

Therein lies the rub.