A. 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 reduce your caloric intake or eat only one or two meals a day your body thinks you are starving. It assumes there is no food available and that there might not be any for a long time. To keep you from starving 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. That's why people often gain MORE weight back than they lost.

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. On the 6 Week Body Makeover plan 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. 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 get burned up quickly. That means that, unlike those diets you've been on in the past, 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.

The ultimate result of the 6 Week Body Makeover is that you can stop dieting and start eating... And you can lose weight fast and keep it off.