Wanna hear the worse part? The majority of people who embark upon a weight loss program will fail and drop out. The majority of those who do lose weight via a weight loss program will gain it back. The majority of people who attempt to do a weight loss program, won't lose much weight.

The documentary showed that once you gain a considerable amount of weight, it is very hard to return to your old size. The brain in your head fights with the "brain" in your gut. In the battle for eating, your subconscious primal brain takes over, ever single time. One of the doctors gave a great example of how hard willpower really is. He said try walking up a flight of stairs and tell yourself you will not breathe hard. He said that'll work for about 5 minutes or so but at some point, your body will take over and whether you want to or not, you will breathe harder.

That's almost what's at play when it comes to dieting. The "brain" in our gut is constantly fending off starvation and any drop in calories, any loss of precious fat, any extra physical exertion, makes it fight to keep things the way they are and that's why for some of us, the truth of the matter is, we will not lose, or lose very little, weight.

Very hard news to hear. So what are we, as fatfighters, to do?

They did provide a modicum of hope. Basically, if you are willing to put in the work and be consistent, it is possible. One of the featured people was a comedienne who lost weight by changing how she ate and working out about 3 hours a day. Sad but true, that's what she HAD to do to stay slim.

You can also opt for weight loss surgery, a young budding filmmaker went that route and lost over 100lbs.

You can just accept your size, they had a woman on there whose point of view was fat people are unfairly attacked and labeled as slobs and lazy because it's safe. As long as your happy with yourself, stop making yourself upset with failed weight loss attempts and just love and accept yourself.

And an approach I can personally get behind is, eat better and exercise to be healthy. Rather than look for quick fixes, which they proved do not work, as cheesy as it sounds, eat for health.

If after all this, you still want to see it for yourself, thought I don't blame you if you don’t, it's showing again this weekend. Again, check your local PBS station for times (Find out when it airs in your area). The entire documentary ran an hour and a half and was followed up by a 30 minute discussion with medical and community experts on what we as a nation can do to solve this problem. They gave no quick fixes, blanket statements or trendy phases. But if you want the practical way to approach this, you'll appreciate the frank discussion.