It's important to lose extra pounds so you'll look good, feel healthier and develop a sense of pride and self-esteem. Once you've lost the fat, you need to maintain your weight. In this booklet, you'll discover how to lose 10 pounds a month – a nice, safe loss – painlessly. You'll feel more energetic than in the past without feeling deprived. Changing poor eating habits is the key to long-term success. You burn off the fat by eating less fat and becoming more active. To guarantee a lifetime of weight-control success, you have to change the type of foods you eat, so that you ingest less fat and still get the vitamins, minerals, trace elements, protein, fat and carbohydrates your body needs to thrive. Extremely low-calorie diets may help you shed pounds quickly, but they'll lead to failure in the long run. That's because humans are genetically protected against starvation. During food shortages, our bodies slow down our metabolisms and burn less energy so we can stay alive.