With the lazy "big results with no work" attitude of so many people when it comes to exercise and eating healty, you could could put that same "The No Hunger Eat Anything Weight Loss Plan" on the cover of a Cobol manual and still sell thousands of copies ;-)
I don't think the fact that a diet book is a best-seller says a whole lot, especially when you consider that the same people who bought this book probably helped to make the Atkins, South Beach, etc. diet books the best sellers they were.
Hardly anyone tries it, because it requires eating oil. Few people are willing to get over the yuck factor, I imagine.
I haven't tried it, either, even though I should be losing weight. One reason for that is the same reason I haven't tried appetite-suppressants: I don't typically eat because I feel hungry, but because I want to be eating, so removing hunger seems useless; I hardly ever feel it, anyway.
Look at hacking your body the same way you would look at hacking a computer. What makes your metabolism tick?
What you're going to find is that excersizing, and eating a LOT of proteing (so that your body doesn't metabolize muscle tissue [like your heart] while you're on your uber low cal diet) are the best way to lose weight.
Don't eat anything (or very little) for like 2 days and the thought of eating a black and blue burger will start to seem repulsive. This is when you start eating fruit and chicken.
This is not hacking. This is being a power user. These workarounds are the best you can do when you can't actually fix the system you're running on, and I agree that workarounds are helpful, but I'm hoping we can fix the system soon. :)
I actually tried it for a month or so a few years back (bought the book). I couldn't get it to work - the primary goal of appetite suppression didn't work for me. YMMV of course.
I've done it on and off for a while, but I can't say I've done it consistently enough to know for sure if it's working. It does seem to have some appetite suppressing effects when I do it consistently.
