If you understand how different food influence cravings, and you understand the glycemic index, you can eat as much as you want and lose weight. That's what I do. (Your mileage might vary.) If you want to compare results in a highly non-scientific way, my half-naked 57-year old body is at the end of this link: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/1.... I would be interested to see how you look with your method. Using willpower to reduce calories is a losing strategy because we now understand willpower to be a limited resource. If you use willpower for losing weight, you have less available for other things. And you probably need all you can get for exercise, avoiding Internet porn, working long hours, and not being a total dick to your loved ones. Obviously people lose weight (at least temporarily) using willpower. There are plenty of examples of that. The problem is that it is an unnecessary discomfort and a waste of willpower. The science of habit (and common sense) suggests you would train yourself to ignore your strict diet over time because we tend to avoid things that hurt. As evidence of that claim, I give you the obesity rate in the United States.

When did I tell engineers they are doing it wrong? I would remember that. P The most common criticism I get is from people criticizing their own hallucination of what I did. Several examples here. Hey, did an engineer just tell me I'm writing wrong? Sometimes Slashdot is like Jezebel with math.