You would use it mainly as an incentive for weight training with a goal to increasing lean mass- trading fat for muscle.

It's common to not lose scale weight while lifting weights but to shrink considerably. A "shrunken" you isn't going to have the same metabolic rate as the "pre-shrunken" you, even though you weigh the same.

Take me for example. I've lost well in excess of 80 lbs and yet I eat as much, if not more, than I did when I started out - and I'm still shrinking.

Nat