>,and also exercise more....The difficult part is, of course, forcing yourself to stick with it. Is that really difficult? Not really, for me it is trivially e

>,and also exercise more....The difficult part is, of course, forcing yourself to stick with it. Is that really difficult? Not really, for me it is trivially easy. Do you find difficult to shower each day or clean your teeth? No, because it is a routine. If you establish routines, the work needed for eating well and exercising tends to zero. And if you eat well you don't need to eat less, your body will be satisfied with much less. If you eat badly, for example cheese puffs, the more you eat the less satisfied you are. Your body is not receiving the nutrients he needs, even while you fill your stomach. The fact is that techniques that actually work do not need to require so much effort or discipline. For example, reading HN. I read HN once I complete part of the work I need to do for a day, so it is a price, not something to be ashamed of. BTW, reading HN is extremely useful for me. I do not expend much time on it, 20 minutes per day or so(I measure it), nor distracts me. I found something interesting, I save it to Zotero. I read HN in batch mode, not in "notifications mode". For example I write this so someone could benefit from it. If someone replies I won't read it because I won't spend time outside my time window. HN is extremely useful because when I am interested in a topic, say Lisp or Artificial inteligenece, I could check my Zotero and study for a week or so the material HN has preselected for me.