So there are no magic pills or potions,Dave, no precision methods that will blast the weight off you. But that doesn't mean you are doomed to a life of deprivation. All hype aside, a ketogenic diet is the best most of us will ever do. Sure it involves lifestyle changes - not mere cosmetic time-limited changes that will peel off x number of pounds so that we can go back to digging our graves with our teeth. But reluctance to do so goes right back to that nasty "deprivation" attitude. Let's get one thing straight...being deprived of the things that made us fat, angry, depressed and ill is a blessing, not a curse! But we have been so brain-washed by commercial advertising, our tastebuds so perverted by decades of carbohydrate overload, and our bodies turned into carb-craving blobs, that we can't see ourselves succeeding w/o our favourite foods. And we love them all! Wrong mindset. Get a couple good lc cookbooks and drool over what you can have. Learn to cook, and you won't be helpless. (Hey, many of us had to learn, even at an advanced age, to cook certain things from scratch. ) Best wishes, Dave, you CAN do it.