There’s a huge social stigma against body fat. Our peers and the media seem to present a unified front, claiming that anyone a little bit overweight is just lazy, that they can fix all of their problems with diet and exercise. Just eat vegetables, avoid carbs, swear off of sugar, and run five miles every day, they say. They’re wrong.

6 minutes to skinny reviewAs many overweight people know, our bodies aren’t machines. They don’t respond in quite the way you predict to simple changes in diet and lifestyle. You can spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on diet programs, personal trainers, gym memberships and special weight loss pills and still get no results. Sweating your tush off with exercise every day doesn’t cut it for everyone, either.