See also: the hacker's diet, which is basically this plan writ large. https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ What clicked for me

See also: the hacker's diet, which is basically this plan writ large. https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ What clicked for me with this plan was that you can automatically adjust your caloric intake on the basis of how well you're tracking your goal weight loss rate. You don't even have to count calories well: if you're undercounting, the system corrects for that by telling you to lower your intake goal. Realizing that it was mathematically impossible not to succeed if I just followed the simple steps was the spark I needed to get started.