The Wall Street Weight Loss Plan - are you crazy? Surely they've got other things to think about? Maybe they've got some spare time on their hands while things are being sorted out or some genius has decided that a little less 'fat on the cat' might do their public image a bit of good.

Wall Street's problem has been about excess and greed. Because of this Wall Street is no longer healthy, and is now suffering a major breakdown.

So what's all this got to do about weight loss? Well, quite a lot. Much of weight gain can be put down to excess and greed. That may sound a little harsh, but we are all responsible for our own actions. It may not be true in all cases, but a bit of honest reflection might just reveal some unpleasant truths. If we continue to ignore reality we may suffer a health breakdown too.

We all know that Wall Street is going to have to change if it wants to return to good health. It is going to have to behave in a different way in future. It's going to have to learn new habits.

By learning new habits, and if it can maintain those new habits, (with a little help from a more watchful regulator) it can enjoy a healthy future.

If we want to lose weight the same rules apply to us. We need to be made to sit up and take notice once in a while just to realize where we are. We all know that some of our behaviors are not good. We all know that we should do something about it, but do we take action? Probably only when we are made to confront cause and effect.

If Wall Street is having to put its house in order, it might be a timely prompt? It's time for all of us to put an end to excess and shape up!

What has been happening on Wall Street is all about survival. To survive Wall Street is going to have to change if it wants to have a healthy future. If we are overweight or obese and we want to have a healthy future, we need to change too. The process will be the same. We need to understand and recognize the behaviors that caused the problem in the first place and then we need to learn new habits in order to make effective, long-lasting change. New behaviors will help us to have a healthy future - Wall Street too.