Your body is the real boss. It holds all the cards because it controls your fat metabolism as well as many of your other basic survival functions in a tiny area at the base of your brain, the 'animal brain'. If you need more sleep, it will make you tired. If you need more oxygen, it will make you want to breathe faster. And if you need more fat, it will make you hungry. It's as simple as that!

So forget about "just restrict calories and exercise" to lose weight. Your body has certain built-in genetic survival programs that are designed to force you to either get fatter or thinner whenever it feels this will help keep you alive. Jon Gabriel calls these programs: 'FAT programs' - Famine And Temperature. Your body can be tricked into activating the FAT programs, even though you don't need to store additional fat. The good thing is that you can also trick your body into doing the opposite - burning fat.

Once you understand and identify the problems, and you start to address them, everything changes.