since fiddleback was only talking about losing weight, my term "work" is defined in response to him as only about losing weight.

Discussions about diets is certainly an interesting one (though perhaps a bit off topic). In reality all diets have an abysmally low success rate in terms of long term weight loss. You can say that is because people don't stick with the diet. That is true, but not enough emphasis in diets (imho) is put on people's willingness to stick to them. These diets do not just exist in theory, they have to be able to actually help people.

.... ok, now I will try to focus on the topic at hand.