An afterthought: when I first started taking OoO I dropped about three pounds right off the bat. I haven't lost anything since, but then again also haven't had the wherewithal to track everything I eat--am just currently eating LC (there's enough stress going on at the moment without keeping exact track of all my food, and keeping exact track seems to be very important to my losing).

I am not absolutely positive, but it seems like it does help with not retaining water as badly, because I don't usually have a 3-pound weight fluctuation while taking it--only 1-1.5 pound fluctuation.