I started the SB diet in '05. My husband and I got ready and started off fine. Actually I lost 5lbs in a week. Great you say? No. I got the stomach flu the same day I started, so hence the lost pounds. It gave me an incentive though. I stayed through phase 1 then on to phase 2. That's where I fell off. I am very stubborn. Sometimes that works for me, but usually it works against me. I need to work at making it work for me again.