28th March 2003, 11:03 AM
Excercise is far more important than dieting. The thing about diets is, well, they are scientifically proven failed ideas. The body isn't really designed to loose weight that way, and in fact when you go on a diet, it is most likely to make the body preserve fat and go into a starve state. You will loose a lot of weight, but size will not drop. That weight is mostly water. Fat itself weighs very little (which is why it floats). That's why it takes a very very LARGE person indeed to have double the weight of a normal person (even though they are like 4 times a normal person's size). It's not "How much do you weigh?" people should ask. It's "How many cubic liters do you displace?". Excercise is the natural way of weight loss, since after all wild people of the fields ate whatever they wanted but they had to track it through the wild and kill it with a rock first. I suggest eating whatever you want, but putting it on one of those dog track mechanical rabbits so you have to run a few laps to get the food. That's what they do for big cats in captivity.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)