Yep. I lost 42 pounds without paying for a single thing (except food I would normally buy). I counted calories--it required basic elementary-school reading and math. That was it. I walked a little more. But fats always think there's some magic bullet that costs X amount of money and they have to have it to lose weight, just like they think exercise requires a new wardrobe. (Oops, tell a lie: I did use a cheap kitchen scale, as well. I already owned it, but if I hadn't I'd have needed to buy one. Mine cost about £5 at Tesco; it wasn't digital or fancy, but it worked and helped me keep my portions at the proper serving size. It really was useful, so I do/would recommend someone counting calories buy one...but if I hadn't had it I still could have counted calories and lost the weight, there just would have been some foods I would have avoided more or probably underestimated serving sizes/calories for--I was genuinely shocked at how large a 100g serving of oven chips was, for only 150 calories.)