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[Xerxes]

Dieting is a difficult thing.

Although I am not fat (13-18% body fat), I found losing weight the most difficult of quitting smoking (for 5 years, although with a couple lapses of one cigarette or so), quitting drinking (well, at least binge drinking: I have a glass of wine or beer or a brandy now and again, about once a month).

Losing weight means controlling food intake, but not "quitting food." Quitting is much easier, for me anyway: I just erase it from my mind and change as much of my pattern as possible, or can figure out something to do instead. Now food, this is programmed into our body, this survival-response need to eat.

That's what kept our species alive all these long years, the never-ending search for food be it for hours or days or a week, and it is what we don't need today. The craving alone (not so much the metabolic rate, I found, when I lost 12 kilos) is what is the most difficult.

When obese, it becomes an issue of self respect, it seems.