To loose weight things you have to do are obvious: eat less, run, pump iron. And whats even better is you have a feed back loop where you can monitor clearly in

To loose weight things you have to do are obvious: eat less, run, pump iron. And whats even better is you have a feed back loop where you can monitor clearly in simple terms ( a number ) that indicates your progress. But to become clever both the method to follow and the way to measure it is so vague. Which is what is at the root of the problem.