As Aclee pointed out: the main aim for TMC is to cleanse your body of toxins. It is not meant as a long term "diet", everything you read says that. Only short term (most people do 10 days but some do as few as 3-5 or as many as 30). The weight that you lose is some water weight but (my understanding) also the built up waste that sits in your system and is not voided (I know; eeww
). I also understand the cleanse to be a big help at breaking bad habits and getting people back on track for healthy eating. TMC has been around for over 60 years and is truly supposed to be a healthy thing to do, with very little side effects. It is hard to believe that something so relatively simple can be, but all of the ingredients are balanced to give your body what it needs for that short time. They keep your body from going into "starvation mode" (like many crash diets do) and eating up muscle instead of fat.