If you want to lose weight and keep it off you have to eat. All reduced calorie diets are ultimately doomed to failure. It is impossible for them to ever provide lasting weight loss. When you go on a diet and begin to starve yourself, your metabolism begins to slow down. Metabolism is the key to weight loss and once your metabolism slows down you have lost the war on fat - no matter how much weight you lose, you will gain back every pound and often more.

Here's what happens when you go on a conventional "diet:" When you go on a diet and reduce your caloric intake or only eat one or two meals a day your body thinks you are starving. It doesn't know that you're intentionally not eating. It assumes there is no food available and that there might not be any in a long time. To keep you from starving to death before your next meal it slows down your metabolism and starts storing all the food you eat as fat.
 
   
   
So even though you are eating less food, your body starts metabolizing it more slowly - burning less for energy and storing more as fat. That means that even though you are eating less you may not lose weight. In fact, it is very possible to go on a low calorie diet and actually GAIN weight. And that's why after failing on a diet, people often gain MORE weight back than they lost. They've slowed their metabolism so much that virtually everything they eat gets stored as fat. Many people who come into the Body Makeover offices are literally eating the caloric equivalent of one meal a day and they still cannot lose weight. They have become the human equivalent of a bear. Their bodies are literally hibernating. A bear eats nothing during hibernation and so its metabolism shuts down. Eating too little works against you.
   
   
That is why you have to eat to lose weight. You do just the opposite of a "diet." On this plan you are generally eating MORE not less... and you eat more often. Virtually every time you are hungry you eat. Then, instead of thinking you are starving, your body realizes that food is plentiful. Every time it is hungry it gets fed so the survival mechanism never kicks in. It assumes it can get all the food it needs so it stops storing the fat for an emergency.
In fact, once your metabolism starts moving this quickly, even heavy fattening foods, like the big log in the bonfire metaphor, get burned up quickly. That means that, unlike those diets you've been on in the past where once you started eating normally again you gain all the weight back and more, with the 6 Week Body Makeover even if you fall off the plan for a day or two you will often continue to lose weight. You will have stoked your body's fat burning fire so dramatically that your body sheds fat automatically.
Your Custom Eating Plan has you eat more of the right foods for your body, more often, to speed up the metabolism; weight loss then occurs almost immediately. The net result: you can stop dieting, stop starving yourself and start eating... and, perhaps for the first time in your life, you can lose weight fast and keep it off.