Many people who have struggled to lose weight in the past are now trying diet food delivery services with great success.

What's the difference?

Why does getting your diet meals prepared and delivered to you help you lose weight - especially when other diets haven't worked? Well, here are 3 of the main reasons diet delivery beats most standard diets:

#1 It's Easy

Think of your last diet. What did you have to do? You may have had to shop for the food (and going to a grocery store when you're dieting can be very tempting!). Then you had to take it home and prepare it which takes time (and when you're hungry, taking an hour to prepare a meal is not ideal).

Then you had to hope that it tasted good. Then you had to do it all again for your next meal. This can get complicated and time consuming.

When you're dieting, you don't have the time (or the energy) to do all of this. So it's very easy to fall off the diet.

But with a diet food delivery service, it's all done for you. You don't have to shop or spend hours preparing the meals. You just take it out of the fridge, heat it up (about 5 - 10 minutes) and eat. How easy is that?

It's also convenient if you work full time and just need food that you can make in a few minutes. When a plan is easy and convenient like this, chances are high that you'll stick with it - and even enjoy it.

#2 Delicious Fresh Meals

One of the main problems with diets is that the food tastes like rubber. It's no wonder they fail. Some people can manage to eat cardboard tasting food for about a day - maybe two if you're really strong. But that's about it.

Food was meant to feed both the body and senses. And diet food that tastes bland and boring doesn't do anything to feed the senses.

It's no wonder many people break their diets with "junk food" like ice cream, pizza and chocolate. They've been starved for emotionally satisfying food. So like a pendulum, they swing too far to the other side and end up gorging on high calorie - but highly emotionally satisfying food.

The good news is that you don't have to starve. You can eat delicious, satisfying meals made with fresh ingredients that feed both your body and your senses.

Diet food delivery services often bring in chefs to design and prepare the most delicious tasting, restaurant-quality meals. So you'll actually enjoy what you're eating on this type of plan. And when you eat delicious food there's no need to look elsewhere. It's easy to stick with it because the food tastes so good.

#3 Eat Plenty of Food

A final obstacle with diets is that you're not only starving emotionally (see #2 above) but you feel like you're starving physically.

Cutting down your food intake can make you feel irritable and hungry. For example, if you're trying those piddly frozen diet dinners, you get about 4 bites of food total (not to mention lots of preservatives that can make you feel even hungrier).

Most people break their diets because they feel hungry. And it's understandable. You don't want to feel like you're starving because that sets up feelings of deprivation which make losing weight a miserable experience.

But with most diet food delivery services you get lots of food (made fresh with no hunger-inducing preservatives). In fact when I was trying a diet food delivery service, I often couldn't finish my dinner (although I wanted to!).

Plus many services include breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack - so you're eating constantly which helps to curb hunger. And when you don't feel hungry again - it's easy to stick to a weight loss plan.

So those are 3 reasons why diet food delivery services may help you lose weight if diets haven't worked for you in the past.

They get around the 3 main obstacles everyone faces when it comes to losing weight: It's easy to follow (the food is right at your fingertips ready to go), you get delicious meals (no feelings of deprivation) and you get lots of food (so you don't feel hungry).

If you do decide to try a diet meal delivery service, you've got several options. Take your time and research which one best fits your needs, lifestyle and budget. Then go for it - you'll be slipping into those new skinny jeans in no time!