Forget about Weight Watchers, The Zone Diet or even Kirstie Alley and Jenny Craig, most dieters these days are opting for the DIY method and making up their own diets.

Eighty percent of the people who responded to a recent survey by Mintel International, a marketing research firm that specializes in food, said they are making up their own diet plans by trying to eat less fat and cut calories, according to report by the San Franciso Chronicle.

Only 6 percent said they are on commercial diets such as Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers and NutriSystem. Nearly 70 percent said they aren't interested in the diets of celebrities.

Dieters also like to take a diet and change it to make it there own, according to a separate study by Stanford University's Prevention Research Center. In that research, dieters were assigned either Atkins, Ornish, Zone and a doctor's plan that prescribed eating less and exercising more. By the second month, 90 to 95 percent of the dieters had modified the plans.

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-- Amanda Barrett, amNY.com