If you can catch Paul McKenna's "I Can Make You Thin" (I'm presuming you're in the US) in reruns on TLC -- revolutionary. You don't "diet". Here are the rules

If you can catch Paul McKenna's "I Can Make You Thin" (I'm presuming you're in the US) in reruns on TLC -- revolutionary. You don't "diet". Here are the rules (and they work): 1- eat anything you want (don't eat diet crap) 2- eat when you're hungry (no emotional eating) 3- eat mindfully (one bite at a time, put your fork down, chew 20 times or so, taste your food) 4- stop when you are full. The rest is elaboration. Exercise helps, of course, and learning to enjoy exercise will help you in a lot of ways (disease prevention etc.). But the big thing for me has been learning how to eat. That conquered, the rest comes naturally.