Satiating food with a low glycemic load is available in any supermarket [0]. People need to cook plain meat, fish, pulses, and vegetables instead of microwaveab

Satiating food with a low glycemic load is available in any supermarket [0]. People need to cook plain meat, fish, pulses, and vegetables instead of microwaveable cheese stuffed things if they want to feel full without excess calorie intake [1]. Keeping ready-to-eat foods out of the home also introduces some useful friction; a person has to decide if they're hungry enough to cook instead of eating due to boredom and having the Hot Pockets right there. The problem as I see it is that more people want to lose weight than want to change habits in a way that will lead to lasting weight loss, so "dieting" is usually a temporary intervention and has a low success rate in the long term. It's like someone who wants to smell freshly showered every day without bathing regularly. They can't actually get the good outcome without the good habitual behavior. [0] It's admittedly not available in food deserts, but obesity has exploded among middle-income Americans too, not just among those too poor to shop at supermarkets. [1] This won't work for everyone, but it seems to be the biggest difference between food habits (and obesity rates) of Americans in the early 1960s vs. now: https://usafacts.org/articles/obesity-rate-nearly-triples-united-states-over-last-50-years/ https://usafacts.org/articles/obesity-rate-nearly-triples-un...