Hey Kath my Dh and Ihave been foloowing a diet at a website look for diet fairy dot com dot au. It cost us $50 for 12 mths access to her site and you can access all the tables, you can eat real food and lose weight. We have been doing it for 9 weeks and I have lost 7kgs and I have done not one bit of exercise. My Dh has lost 14.5 kgs. I always feel things like the shakes are ok but as soon as you atart eating real food the weight goes back on, and lets face it you can't be on the shakes forever!! Good luck wit your weight loss!