Look back over the years, to all the diet regime you have tried and failed at. All of the diet programs that your family and friends have had the supreme discomfort of living through. You experimented with the all-liquid diet that had you drinking a foul tasting, beef based mixture. You did it because it was the hottest, fast weight loss program of the time. You did the diet where you had to eat a soup before every meal, a soup that was created from hours and hours of stewing and simmering of leeks and cabbages and various other ingredients. The first day, you believed that it was terrific. By day three, you were prepared to hurl that soup pot into the front yard and purchase a pizza.