I don't recommend this product since I've never used it... but the article in general about how to eat is good. [link] I've met Mark McDonald twice now and he's helped me a lot with my health. He explains why carbs aren't bad, why not to skip meals and how to get fit vrs just thinner.

Summary, people need to eat 6-8 small meals a day, basically whenever you feel truly hungry. They should be a balanced mix of a carb, fat and a protein. This will stabilize your blood sugars which will cause your body to eat fat. Examples would be egg, almonds and cottage cheese. Toast, ham and skittles. Apple, peanut butter and a cheese stick, etc.

Once you get going it's easy to mix and match properly and eat anything basically. Also, eat proteins first. Proteins are digested by the stomach, carbs are digested in the mouth so you'll be less hungry and crave less carbs if you eat the proteins first.

Hope this helps

I forgot to mention the sweetest part:

You will never, never, never go hungry again.

You will never have to suppress your appetite, and you will never have to count calories. Everything will fall into place, quite literally. Diabetes and obesity no longer a problem? Neither are all the other health effects of a bad diet such as: bad unexplainable rashes, feeling unnaturally grumpy or snappy, mental fogginess, low energy, and inability to sleep.

A last anecdotal point? I've been doing this for 2 weeks and dropped 10lbs. It's as easy as pie!

If you want more information, I will gladly link you to various online resources that will help you.

Good for you~ The steps you've taken so far are great! Let me offer some personal advice and some insight.

Rule 1: I'd suggest stop eating all carbs except vegetables and a few choice nuts and berries. <-- minimal. They are seasonal and should be eaten sparsely. No sugar at all, no fruit drinks (the worst!), even try cutting artificial sweetners that have real sugars attached. (You'd be surprised at how many artificial sweetners have real sugar in them. Look on the packets, is marked as "Dextrose") Again, do not eat too much fruit. A banana, despite the nutritional facts and common diet explanations for all it's goodness, is actually much worse for you than a nice, natural, grass fed steak.

The reason you stopped losing weight is you stopped eating so many carbs and sugars. If you want to make the weight loss permanent, you must stop carbs and sugars permanently. If you want to keep losing weight, but at a more efficient pace (let's call this "maximum speed" without the fear of a disorder) that your body is actually naturally acclimated ("designed") to do. Let me explain some of the the science behind it:

The more sugar we eat/drink the harder it is for our bodies to use the energy already stored as fat in our bodies, preferring instead to use all the carb fuel. It isn't even good to load up on carbs before a workout, despite common say so! (Inefficient and makes us hungrier. Muscles need protein before and after a workout, not bread)

(I strongly suggest you look up insulin spikes and why they happen and why they make us fat.)

But here's a simple breakdown: Insulin prevents your body from using your own fat stores and leaves your body unable to burn anything but carbs. Forget everything you've ever known about calories - they don't matter. I'll get into this later.

When we "crash" from a sugar high, it's actually your body telling you to get more cheap energy to use to turn into fat. Is why you feel hungrier and eat more if you eat nothing but junk and processed food all day. And the additional crux of the problem is -- the carb energy you're consuming so quickly is burned because your body is making fat out of it and trying to keep making fat. It doesn't want to burn it, so it stores it. Terrible feedback loop, isn't it?
Sugar>Insulin Spike>fat>need for more sugar>insulin spike>fat>need for more sugar, etc.

There is more information here: [link]
Also, you might check out Gary Taubes, a medical journalist who wrote two very informative books on obesity backed with science data: "Bad Calories, Good Calories", and "Why We Get Fat And What To Do About It".

Do not do cardio exercises. They are not the proper way to lose weight (opt for low weight/high rep weights instead). Stamina is great - strength is better! The reason for this is your body adjusts its metabolism according to how much energy it needs to burn. More muscle = more efficient metabolism. Running is a short-term only makes your tired and hungry. I don't have a link off the top of my head, but don't try to google this. It's all calorie-related and calories don't really count if you're not a hardcore athlete. If you'd like, I will go get more references.

Do not pay attention to calories. It is a myth your body needs more output than it needs input from calories. The laws of thermodynamics do exist, but diet magazines and columns focus on the wrong information. Here's it in a nutshell: Energy is energy, but your body does discriminate. As proved by the insulin effect.

Focus on the type of calories you are consuming. Eat plenty of fats and protein (but keep lean protein to 20-30% of diet, and not 100% as too much protein turns into glucose which may make you gain weight) and focus on green, leafy vegetables. Spinach will always be better than a potato, and not because of calories!

Honestly, loosing weight is not a good thing. It's actually dangerous, at least if you do it alone. I would recommend you to ask someone to help you stay in control. A lot of people who try to lose weight end up ill, because you think you are in control, but you're never getting satisfied, so you'll keep losing weight. Sorry to be this much of a downer, but unless it's absolutely necessary, I would recommend you to just not lose weight.

Sorry, just don't want anyone to get into a situation they don't want to be in..