Do you want to lose weight but don't want the schlep of planning and cooking the right meals? Hundreds of South Africans are outsourcing their weight-loss meal plans to companies that create, prepare and deliver the meals to their door.But be prepared to pay for the convenience.Wayne Kaminsky is not a dietician, a doctor or a recipe book writer - he runs a company, FitChef, and every day he receives calls from people wanting to lose weight.He provides at least 21 days of healthy meals and smoothies for those wanting to lose weight. All meals are frozen, and in line with the banting trend, he even uses cauliflower mash.The company has between 1500 and 2000 regular customers a month. One family spends R25000 a month on healthy meals.Others buy cheaper packages and spend about R700 a month.The luxury package - for 21 days of 54 meals and 54 smoothies - costs R4656 a person.Another meal service, served fresh, also offers healthy meals and consumers can choose from low-fat, gluten-free or high-fat diets, based on the level of activity of the consumer - 1200 calories for an inactive woman, or 1600 calories for one who exercises a lot.Paleomonkey provides Banting-friendly, high-fat, low-carb meals in Johannesburg and Cape Town.Christian Matuz, founder of iHealth Meals, said people buy meals from him because they don't know how to "cook healthily".Matuz started the business in 2009 because he found South African take- away food unhealthy.He said Cape Town residents really liked paleo or Banting-type meals with a high-fat and a low- carb content and didn't mind cooking occasionally themselves. Matuz said Johannesburg buyers were older, aged between 35 and 55, and just wanted the food cooked and delivered...