I can speak for myself. I've lost 15 kg since last summer, not feeling hungry at all, so it's not "1000 calories less than required", at least not what my apeti

I can speak for myself. I've lost 15 kg since last summer, not feeling hungry at all, so it's not "1000 calories less than required", at least not what my apetite requires :) In fact, I don't feel like I'm doing a diet, it hasn't been my intention at all. I simply started eating a lot more fruit, in part by accident (didn't know how delicious is pinneaple), in part for convenience (apples are easy to bring in the backpack, salads come now in cheap bags), in part because of my son (he loves orange juice at all times, I eat the ones that remain). Also it's better to avoid prepared food. I still eat a lot of pasta and meat (I've just enjoyed a 250 g steak) and enough seafood. The only significant casualties are bread (only with meat or fish) and cheese... like Hurley said "everybody likes cheese", but it does no good to me :-( I agree that exercise is great. But I live far from sea, so I can't windsurf most of the year, and jogging bores me to death. Once year ago I went to the gym and it was really good, but it made me really hungry, so it didn't help with weight lose. In my twenties it was different, but at the time it was much more intense than what I can do now.