Don't spend money for anything my dear!! Go on the atkins diet. You will take that ten pounds off in the first fourteen days and if you keep with it you will be energized and healthier then you have been in a while! And you can believe me because I am on it, and I am not trying to sell you anything!!!

You know if you are working out & going to school & studying all of which burns calories but not eating (you have time you just choose not to eat) then you body goes into the protection mode from our caveman days, they sometimes got lots of food then went ages with none or little so the body reduces the calories it uses to store them so we can keep going, then as we're no longer cavemen we gain weight, whereas if you exercise & do your usual things & eat sensibly & regularly your body doesn't respond like that of a caveman instead it starts using the calories it needs as it needs them because it knows more fuel will follow.

So start finding time to eat (sensibly & atkins or whatever suits you is fine) & keep up the activities & the weight will drop just don't expect it to happen overnight.

Yeah purple is right on that one. Just take sensible food with you. Like a sandwich or celery sticks or whatever it is that you like. That way when you do get hungry, you eat something and your metabolism will speed up. When you only eat once a day (and not right at all) your body will do what purple said. You may not even need to do atkins or anything. If you just start eating small amounts of healthy food when your body tells you it is hungry, then your metabolism should speed back up and you will lose that ten pouns.

Although no expert, the research i've read states unequivocably that when you do not eat at regular intervals, the body decides it is starving and converts all intake into fat. As the others have said, eat every meal and in between times as long as it's healthy and not mickie d's. That lets the body know you aren't starving, the metabolism will perk up.

With your limited eating system, you may well be nutrient deficient. This complex system we reside in needs all the necessary nutrients for optimal health. Fad diets are a prime example of unbalanced and unhealthy nutrient schemes. Anyone on a fad diet needs a quality broad spectrum multi vitamin with all essential nutrients. The one we're on has 178 ingredients which is just about top of the line!

Good luck and good health!