Phase 2 work for me, follow a healthy calorie diet, exercise (i'm meant to say ha !) I do try ! but these tablets are starch blockers, and if taken before i carbohydrate meal, absorb and pass through 66% of calories, at my 2 thinnest times in the past year (its not easy to rememeber all the time) i was taking these, and dont worry they are totally natural and made from a white bean thats been tested and proved to absorb these calories, no bull, they work for me, a carb lover unfortunatly !