That's the cover headline of the latest TIME Magazine. The article by Alexandra Sifferlin isn't really all that hopeless. Basically, as the subtitle inside says, "No single diet...will work for everyone."

Her sources include the National Weight Control Registry, to which many of us here have added data, and The Bariatric Medical Institute in Ottawa, quoting medical director Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, whom many of us read regularly online.

It's fair to say that, yes, you can lose weight if you really, really want to. It's hard. It's endless. It's highly individual. You might not end up looking like a super-model.

Like we've been saying around this site for quite a while.