I lost three stone in three months with slimfast. I had never really dieted before, and this was the easiest option as I hate most food other than take aways and junk food! I had the strawberry shakes for breakfast (the ready made up ones, the powder stuff tastes like cement) a slimfast chocolate caramel snack for mid morning, shake or meal bars (chocolate!) for lunch, snack bar mid afternoon, sensible meal (chicken/mccains microchips veg) for tea and another snack bar for evening snack. Drink lots of water and the weight falls off, you don't feel hungry because you get to snack between meals and although I spent most of the time clockwatching waiting for the next snack it felt good every time I got on the scales. I worked on about 1200 calories per day, although didn't really count them exactly. You can even have things like a McDonalds, and provided you cut out one or two of the snacks the same day then this counts as your main meal.