The reason NOT to go on Meat, Fruit and Vegetables is that you’ll lose weight more slowly than on just dead animules and vegetibules. The reason TO go on Meat, Fruit and Vegetables is that some patients just won’t stop eating fruit. You know who you are. Fruit and alcohol are the two worst things you can eat on a diet, because they store twice as much fat as simple carbohydrates. But if you absolutely, positively won’t stop eating fruit, and you want to lose weight – Meat, Fruit and Vegetables is the best way to take off 3-5 pounds a week. The diet works because it controls calories and carbohydrates. Even though you are eating fruit, it’s a 60 gram carbohydrate diet that works for weight loss, because the calories are under 1000 a day.