There's been an article going around for years about an obese man from way back who stopped eating entirely for a year. Doctors monitored his vitals, and gave him vitamins now and then, but he was fine otherwise and lost all of the weight. Our fat stores are a fuel tank for when we don't eat enough, the only way to burn them is to not eat enough. Or keep hunting for some secret that mother nature doesn't want us to find out about.... <scarfs 5th slice of cheesecake>