It takes superhuman willpower to go to bed hungry every day when you have the option not to. That's why people on low-calorie diets so frequently (read: almost

It takes superhuman willpower to go to bed hungry every day when you have the option not to. That's why people on low-calorie diets so frequently (read: almost always) put non-trivial weight back on within a few years. Your brain tells you to eat n calories. Your brain will make damn sure that you eat every bit of n. Telling a person who can't eat less than n that they're lazy is like telling a schizophrenic that they should just snap out of it.