"The hard part is actually starting. Once you start, everything becomes easier." - For whom? These are those types of nuggets, and I say it as mellowly as I ca

"The hard part is actually starting. Once you start, everything becomes easier." - For whom? These are those types of nuggets, and I say it as mellowly as I can, that sound good ("starting is most difficult part"), but have very little empirical, or even anecdotal, support. Starting is on the other hand easier than sustaining calorie reduction or consistent exercise because enthusiasm makes the operations initially easier (see the subscription boom that gym every where have in September and January), but then when people start telling themselves that this was not as easy as they expected to be when unsupported by the initial enthusiasm, they quit.