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New information from the Centers for Disease Control shows no significant changes in obesity rates among adults over a 10-year period from 1999 through 2008. It's a trend some health experts say they would call encouraging, if the overweight and obesity rates among children and adults were not already extremely high.

While overweight and obesity rates among adults may be at a plateau, it is at an alarming 68 percent.

"A 68 percent plateau is an extraordinarily high number. I have people coming in saying, 'Well, I'm not that overweight.' They're really 75 pounds overweight, but because their neighbor is 30 pounds overweight, they don't see themselves as overweight," says Dr. Christine Ren, the director of the surgical weight loss program at NYU Langone Medical Center. "Now the average American, the majority of Americans are overweight. So this is a sad and terrifying reality that we have to be very forceful about coming to terms with."

Experts say a multi-pronged approach is needed to help bring down rates of those who are overweight or obese, including environmental controls, lifestyle change and treatment.

One of Ren's patients, Gaspar Rosario, knew he had to make a change after he tried a few trend diets but still weighed 350 pounds.

"At 29, I couldn't save myself from a parking ticket here in the city. I couldn't run. I got tired easy," says Rosario.

Seven years later, Rosario still has regular adjustments after deciding to have lap-band surgery. He has lost 100 pounds and counting.

Wilhelmina Bradford, 62, who struggles with breathing problems, diabetes and high blood pressure and is HIV-positive, joined a wellness program at her local hospital, Brooklyn Hospital Center, to lose weight.

"I feel much lighter. I feel like I have more energy," says Bradford. "That anxiety and that stuffiness that I used to have, that has completely gone away."

Her nutritionist at Brooklyn Hospital Center, Karen Congro, says overweight people need to getting involved in a program that targets not just a change in diet, but also nutrition and exercise.

"Lifestyle change is comprehensive. It's just not going on a diet for a set amount of time and saying, 'Diet finished. I lost 20 pounds, I'm fine," says Congro. "It's reevaluating the way you approach not just your eating habits but your lifestyle in general."

Doctors and researchers hope more people take lifestyle changes to heart, as they look for more ways to curb a health epidemic that is certainly not improving.