This... All these expencive fad diet programms and meal substitutes etc make me mad too. A friend of mine (not fat, but his wife had a baby and they wanted to diet together as soon as she stopped nursing the baby) paid a nutritionalist for a diet programm. 400€ each. He set an active guy who works out 5 times a week on an 800kcal diet. Like HONESTLY???? And because they both don't know anything about nutrition they were happy to pay for it. And whenever I tried to say something it was just "but he has studied it". Yeah. At the end he had to gain weight after the diet and is back to his usual eating habits - so no results at all.