That's what is likely happening now, as waistline-watchers discover that gluten-free diets and exotic health foods like quinoa aren't automatically slimming.
The New York Fed released its manufacturing survey for New York state Tuesday, showing that manufacturing is expanding in February, but profit margins are slimming.
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This following proceedings against her for serious professional misconduct relating to the prescription of unlicensed slimming drugs.
At least three of us on the ForbesWoman team have promised Harper five minutes of our precious and busy days to toning up and slimming down.
Weight Watchers, which promotes conventional diet plans with its own celebrity, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, has seen a 6% fall in Americans attending its slimming programmes.
The biggest market is for low-calorie food and slimming concoctions.
But there may, and probably should, be much more slimming to come.
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One called "Beauty Face" was supposed to make you look better by doing things like slimming your face automatically.
And Mind said mental health should be treated with the same importance as slimming, smoking and exercise.
Commentators describe the Clinton-Gore partnership as far closer than many previous presidential teams as the vice president has taken on an unprecedented number of responsibilities, including seeking to "reinvent government" by slimming down the federal bureaucracy.
He estimates that 9% of Americans are eligible for bariatric surgery, in which the stomach is tied off to make it smaller. (The procedure is probably best known for slimming celebs such as weatherman Al Roker and singer Carni Wilson.) But even that would cost most employers more than they would save.
The auditors recommend a drastic slimming of the rule-books.
St Albans Crown Court was told Madan sold phentermine and diethylpropion slimming pills at five Easy Slim clinics.
Given the cooperation the workforce has shown in slimming down, it is a bitter blow.
The quick-witted child is sure to respond with a long list of supposed health benefits of eating chocolate, from helping protect the heart, to slimming, to just making us feel good.
In the days before the health-care system began slimming down, most insurance policies covered the procedure.
In west London, three have partially merged, slimming the ranks of bureaucrats and jointly managing services.
But dismantling the welfare state, or even slimming it down, is not on her agenda.
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It would dent the fiscal complacency threatening America, the sense that almost a decade of slimming can finally give way to a good binge.
The question is whether they will have the same slimming effect on people as they have done on mice.
As part of their efforts to emerge from their past, Nortel is continuing to restructure its operations, and Thursday's news that they'd cut 3, 500 jobs shows how the company is slimming down and refocusing on its most profitable product lines.
So instead of slimming its tablet down, Toshiba chose to bulk it up.
Even careful Mario Monti, the European commissioner for the single market, wrote a front-page leader in Corriere della Sera explaining that, if Italy is to join Europe's monetary union, the slimming down of its welfare state cannot be delayed for ever.
In addition to slimming down the design, the company opted for more premium materials.
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Yet slimming the board is not the only reform needed to improve corporate governance.
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Already, the Army is cutting its end strength from 570, 000 to 490, 000, and the Marine Corps is slimming down from 202, 000 to as few as 175, 000.
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There is a deluge of 4k displays on the show floor - some adding OLED (organic light-emitting diode) tech to offer richer colours, others slimming the screen's bezel down until it is almost not there.
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