I have found the perfect diet (or, rather "weight control algorithm"), have lost about 60 pounds and haven't gained them back for a couple of years now. The alg

I have found the perfect diet (or, rather "weight control algorithm"), have lost about 60 pounds and haven't gained them back for a couple of years now. The algorithm is extremely simple: "If you ate yesterday, don't eat today." It means I fast AT LEAST half days in a year (see: alternate day fasting). On fasting days, I drink water and green tea (with no sugar, of course). It has numerous purported health benefits. I can vouch for weight loss, lower blood pressure, more energy (perhaps paradoxically) and better digestion. It also frees a lot of time, since you don't have to plan, eat, or acquire food half the time and it turns out digestion also "needs" sleep, so I can get by with sleeping less on days I'm empty. The only side effect is that of lower blood pressure - I sometimes get dizzy if rising up fast from crouching. I started doing this after fasting for 60 hours every fortnight for a year, I loved the feeling and wanted more of it. It also makes me appreciate food much more on the days I do eat. As disclaimer (YMMV), I tend to avoid food additives which are known to be bad (coal tar-based paintstuffs, artificial sweeteners, certain emulgators and such) - the lists of those are widely available. And I try to eat whole-grain cereal products. I also keep kombucha as pets (very clean and quite pets, fermented tea is best poo ever) and I bake my own bread with wild yeast that has apparently managed to have aerial sex with my kombucha scoby.