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Wow, thanks for all the responses guys! True, sometimes I tend to 
get a bit impatient (hehe). Anyway, as for the warrior diet question 
and why I like the philosophy:

Basically, a few reasons 

1. The ultimate aim is to limit total daily caloric intake to 1 
sitting. And for someone like me, who can be "good" all day if he 

knows a good dinner is on the way, that is a godsend.

2. I live at home with my family, and coming home, a good Indian 
dinner is always ready (and is pretty nutritious) so I don't have to 
worry bout constantly eating the wrong kind of food on this diet.

3. I enjoyed feeling light on my feet and not having an excuse to be 
lazy (the approach of mealtime sometimes tends to do that to me) 
throughout the day since I work at an Investment Bank.

HOWEVER, there are a few reasons why I chose the NoSdiet instead:

1. I am not what you call a consistent person in much of anything. I 
have the all or nothing mentality. Thankfully, up until now, 
the "all" phases in my life have balanced the "nothing" phases in 
my 
life in terms of fitness and gotten me to 170 lbs. But I know I could 
have already reached my goals if I had not been so extreme. The 
warrior diet, I fear, might just enhance my extreme nature towards 
diet and I don't want that. I want to be able to adhere to a plan 
centered on moderation with some rules, like the NoSdiet. Then, when 
I am ready, mebbe I can switch to the Warrior diet. 

2. I fear the physiological effects of the WD. I think that people 
who are overweight are more sensitive to storing extra calories 
ingested in one meal as fat then slim people. To that end, I think 
the WD would be better as a maintenance type of diet once you reach 
the weight you want.



Reinhard,

The main problem I have with "maybe" overeating is that in my case, 

it's not so obvious. The problem is mostly centered around dinner. 
That is where the "no seconds" part is harder for me. The type of 

food I eat is vegetarian and not too fatty, so the calories are less. 
The problem is that I can't not have seconds unless I absolutely cram 
my plate with food the first time! However, it's slowly getting 
easier to guage how much I need so that the next day, I am not 
starving but not stuffed either. I am also working out daily so that 
tempers this problem a bit until I get a handle on it.