Although I eat pretty healthfully, the last few years I've gained some weight, especially around my middle. I guess that is why they call this "middle age"! One day I decided the tummy fat had to go. Continuing to eat the way I had been and "hope" the weight would go away wasn't much of a plan. So I researched all the popular diet programs out there. I decided on Joel Marion's Cheat Your Way Thin.There were four main reasons I was attracted to the Cheat Your Way Thin program.1. Cheat Your Way Thin is a scientifically-based nutrition program that teaches you to work with your body's metabolism, instead of against it, to lose weight. There are 308 medical research papers referenced on the Cheat Your Way Thin website. The author claims it took him 6 years to research and assemble this knowledge for this program.2. I was impressed with the author's credentials. Joel Marion is a nationally published author and fitness personality, appearing on TV, radio, and more than 20 popular magazines. In 2001 he won the world's largest Body Transformation contest for "regular" people, the Body-for-Life Transformation Challenge. He is a certified sports nutritionist and personal trainer who worked with hundreds of clients to perfect this program.3. The premise behind Cheat Your Way Thin diet made sense to me. Whereas your body adjusts to traditional dieting by continually lowering your metabolism as you eat less food, this program teaches "strategic cheating" combined with "carbohydrate cycling" to increase your metabolism. Joel does a great job of simplifying the scientific explanation of how this plan increases your body's fat burning hormone production so you can lose weight while still eating.4. This seemed to be a plan I one could live with. It recommends you eat 6 meals per day. I liked the sounds of that. It's not a low carb or low fat diet and doesn't require you to count calories. And one day a week you get to eat whatever you want! Actually, I should rephrase that. One day a week you HAVE to eat whatever you want. I can live with that, too!Two additional things I liked about Cheat Your Way Think program is there was ongoing support. When you purchase Cheat Your Way Thin, you get access to an interactive fitness blog, regular emails with continued articles, information, free gifts, support and suggestions. You can also purchase additional one-on-one coaching with Joel. And Cheat Your Way Thin offered a 60 day, 100% money-back guarantee.