First off I lost about 80 pounds, When I first weighed 282, later I got down to 230 and switched to low calorie. But then my body got comfortable with the weight and I couldn't go lower no matter how hard I tried, I am now 187 pounds and the way I did it. Is by eating tons of food good and bad types for a few days straight and excercising with it. From what ive read the combonation of eating and excercising a lot of both put together makes your metabolism REALLY FAST. And when I dropped the pounds, I stopped eating so much and went back on my diet. I assume my metabolism was faster and it took time to slow down while dieting. I kept doing this till I was at the proper weight. So for example diet and excercise like usual for 5 weekdays and on the weekends eat as much as you want and get plenty of excercise to boost the metabolism. Therefor what you eat burns off plus more to keep you losing weight. How long does it take for your metabolism to slow down?. This for sure worked for me!