Whew! And I thought we Americans were obsessed with weight loss.

Released last week, the Laughing Cow Extra Light Diet report found that the average British woman diets a total of 31 years over her lifetime. The average British man spends about 28 years on a diet.

That surprised me. Here’s what didn’t.

The average diet lasted about 5 weeks.

Half of the dieters quit because they didn’t have the willpower.

Another quarter gave up because their diets made them moody or depressed.

Now you know why I cheat.