Hi need2burn,

IMHO, learning how to live a low-carb life is the key to reaching your goal. We all want a quick-fix. How satisfying is a quick-fix in the long run? Does it have any staying power?

Look at it this way. Think of what it was like to put on weight.

I am going to be using the generalized "you" here. It's not personal by any means.

Follow the same way you put on weight to lose weight. You didn't wake up one week weighing 10 pounds more than you did the week before, did you?

It didn't seem like a lot of effort to put on weight, so why does it seem harder to lose weight? Because you became comfortable and complacent with it. Because you developed bad eating habits, because you became addicted to the seratonin release of eating carbs. Because you ate when happy, sad, angry, confused or lonely. Because you needed a buffer of fat against what you felt you needed protection from.

The weight loss miracle you are seeking lies within you, not within a bottle. That's whay my sig line reads "Progress not perfection." Making a little progress everyday in some aspect of your life leads to the miracle.

Karen