Every personal account I’ve read, suggests it takes a great deal of will. It’s not easy to eat less than you need to eat to sustain your present weight. You als

Every personal account I’ve read, suggests it takes a great deal of will. It’s not easy to eat less than you need to eat to sustain your present weight. You also need to change very much what you eat. Recently I weighed myself and found that I was 73.8 kilos. For my height, it is overweight. “Sacre bleu,” I thought (I sometimes think in French), “je suis Américain obèse.”. I bought a scale and made an effort to eat less every day. After a few weeks I realised I had to change my diet — more rice and vegetables and lean meat, less eating out and having dessert with lunch every day... This was a long, stressful period of eight or nine weeks wherein I managed to lose 7 kilos, filled with many reversals, changes of habit, and frank comings to terms with myself.