10 Feb '11 10:50>1 edit
Originally posted by FMFEating less, which appears to me the most likely explanation for why the diet works, is hardly "psychosomatic".
The 'success' when following the diet, three times, and similar results for relatives and friends who have followed it. Indeed I personally know of noone for whom it hasn't worked to a degree. I have seen no evidence that the weight loss is psychosomatic and plenty of evidence that supports in detail what the diet's proponents say about it. Either way, there is nk that I would start putting that weight back on, even if I continued to separate my food?
I know that when they analyzed the Atkins diet, they found that it works because people on the Atkins diet eat less (contrary to the reason Atkins himself proposed).