First of all, we have the written manual. This is a guide that aims to dispel many of the common myths of fat loss and eating properly to avoid putting on weight.

The guide covers 10 core rules you need to know, from manipulating your calories, carbs, fat and protein intake, eating habits, rotation of eating, preparation, accompanying drinks, mental attitude…right through to water consumption to walking habits!

The guide aims to show you how to change your old ineffective habits and eating plans before you actually begin your new fat loss system.

The software is slightly different, where it generates a specific set of meals based on your choices…therefore being a little more specific.

From what we can tell, you can either follow the written guide and be your own boss, or you can use the diet generator to have a specific eating plan set out for you based on your choices. However, the written guide seems to contain some general advice that will compliment your actual meal plans too.

After opening the main written guide, we were surprised at how straight to the point and easy to read the guide was.

• First you are taken through these 10 rules to a successful diet, which don’t seem overbearing or too strict. They simply point out some basic do’s and don’ts along with some very simple habits to take on which we feel would be easy to accomplish, such as walking more, drinking a little more water and going easy on salad dressings.

• There are more details pieces of advice such as how to stop searching for certain types of foods that actually don’t help your diet (low fat foods etc) and why certain types of exercises that people say you should do actually do not burn off any fat at all (and what you need to do instead).

• We also liked the parts about low carb diets being useless in the long term and the reasons why. This cleared a lot of things up for us, and explains why so many people don’t stick to these sorts of diets (they are not designed for the long term).

• Other useful information is found in eating at restaurants, how to eat foods when dining out without destroying your diet plans, and they even mention eating fast food the healthier way!

• There is a ton more info ranging from water retention (the silent weight adder) right through to the myths about salads, honey and brown sugar, wheat bread and all sorts of other fat piling foods that you’re led to believe are helping you when in reality, they are making you fatter!

• Finally, there’s a useful section on alcohol consumption (how to drink alcohol and still maintain weight loss) and a couple of great chapters on eating habits throughout the day.

The software is also very easy to pick up and use. It creates specific weekly diet plans based on the Fat Loss 4 Idiots principles, and what types of foods you prefer.