Update after one complete round of this diet: 

After the 11 days of eating what the computer told me to, no more and no less, I had lost exactly five pounds and had neither lost nor gained in fat percentage. I did the recommended 2 x 35 minutes of walking (about 4.5 miles for me) every weekday and about 50 minutes on Saturday and Sunday mornings.

At that point, I was bored out of my mind with the very limited selections, got hungry between meals, and had that deep down "ghost hunger" that comes when you stay on a restrictive diet plan too many days in a row. I craved everything, even things I hadn't even thought about for year, but especially vegetables. Perhaps I was missing some essential nutrient(s) or maybe my body was just trying to find that 5 pounds I had "lost."

The second part of this diet is three days of "normal" eating after the 11-day computer-generated menu. During that period I made sure I didn't binge on anything, although I did eat some low carb bread products and had a good-sized piece of cake with ice cream at a family birthday party. Two of the five pounds reappeared, making my net loss for those two weeks three pounds. So this diet does sort of work, but others work as well, are less painful to go through, teach you how to make healthful and yummy menus, have built-in mechanisms for elevating the metabolism and give you a plan you can live with very well for the rest of your life .

Final score: two stars for ease of use and at least some effectiveness.

Be well. –Di

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