Preliminary post on guidewog weight loss program:
Start: 314 pounds, 51 inch waist, January 12th, 2010
Current: 265 pounds, 44 inch waist May 8th, 2010
Loss: 49 pounds, 7 inches. 117 days

The diet is achieving results. Results seem to be motivated most of all by the success of self-esteem exercises and goal setting. The ketogenic process that is most effective at burning fat is hard to generate, and requires great will power. Dieters often report feeling feint and tired during the induction phase of the diet. They also ingest more proper food. This could be why goal setting seems to have a positive effect, creating cognitive dissonance when the dieter goes off the strict diet. It's interesting to note that other studies have shown this affect, including that dieters often settle into a low-carbohydrate diet, their change in weight stabalizes and then they go off diet. This means that would-be dieters would do well to remember that psychology plays a very important role in accomplishing goals.

Also it may interest some to know that the two best resources to follow this weight loss and maintenance program are:

http://www.speedweightlossbook.com/

Buy the book, or find the pdf

and

http://www.crossfit.com/

Find a gym or follow the blog.

An argument against the probability that this theory of Gods intention to carry men on in an intellectual and moral progress, will be executed in relation to alt mankind, has been drawn from the fact that many appear to have chosen, in this world, a path opposite to "this bright one towards perfection ;" and it is said to be reasonable to suppose that they will always continue in that opposite course. Answer-There is, in every rational being, a moral sense, or reverence for right. This seminal principle of an exalted character never, in this world, becomes extinct; it survives through vice, degradation and crime: it sometimes seems almost to have been conquered, but it never dies ; and often, even in this world, like a phenix from her ashes, it lifts itself from the degradation of sensual pollution under which it was buried, and assumes a beauty and a power before unknown. How many, whose virtuous principles had been apparently subdued by temptation, appetite and passion, have suddenly risen with an energy worthy an immortal spirit, shaken off the influences that were degrading them, resisted and overcome the power that was prostrating them, become more resolutely virtuous than ever, and had their determination made strong by a recurrence to the scenes they had passed. This has happened in multitudes of instances in this world.

-Lysander Spooner

http://lysanderspooner.org/node/18