Wall Street's got a weight loss plan? Haven't they got other things to think about right now? Perhaps they've all been looking in the mirror and decided that a change of image might not be such a bad idea! Slim and lithe might do the public perception of the nation's top bankers a bit of good - best to try and not look so well-off and well fed, perhaps.

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.

Weight gain is about excess and greed too. When we behave in an irresponsible or unconcerned way about what we eat and how much we eat, we too increase the risk of our health breaking down.

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.

The same applies to us. Sometimes we need to be brought up short to realize the error of our ways - as in Wall Street. We all know in our heart of hearts that the bill for our excesses and our greed is going to have to be paid someday.

Excess and greed on Wall Street is no longer an acceptable. If you are overweight or obese it should no longer be acceptable to you either. Time perhaps, to use what has happened on Wall Street as a timely prompt?

Events on Wall Street show us that sometimes things have to change or survival is put at risk. In the same way, we have to make personal change if we are to lose weight and secure our health and survival. To do this we must do what they are doing on Wall Street right now - to recognize the behaviors that caused the problems in the first place and then learn new habits. Learning new habits will determine new behaviors. Only when we learn new habits can we secure lasting change.