I never understood diets myself. I just try to go hungry for as long as possible when I'm trying to lose weight. Seems like the most sensable option to me, assuming you don't try it to the level of anorexics.
a. I lean in that direction, so changing what I eat to less calorie-dense food helps calm down the impulse to just stop eating, and allows me to eat whenever I'm in the least bit hungry--it's pretty hard to get fat on beans and rice.
b. If I did that, I literally wouldn't be able to do anything else. At all. My brain burns sugar like no one's business, which is why I still end up eating a lot of sugar and honey even when I'm losing weight. Most of my "diet" is about increasing fruit, eggs, and vegetables, not trying to get away from sugar--well, other than trying to eat more rice and less bread. I'm actually pretty much incapable of getting the simple sugars I need from fruit alone, as far as I can tell--well, from the fruit I have access to, anyway. If I ate a pound or two of cherries a day I might be okay
Seriously, when I'm actually working, I'll sometimes need to eat five or more meals a day; I remember one evening when I snacked around to the tune of the calories one would normally eat for dinner... and then turned around and ate an entire pound of almonds. And woke up hungry the next day.
c. When I run low on food, I start being incredibly angry and anxious. This can happen if I miss only one meal.
So... yeah. I don't know what my body's chemical balance is up to, but thank goodness I've finally built up enough tolerance for caffeine that I can drink tea without everything shutting down.
You still get to eat fish-pills
Yeah, but I've got problems even beyond that with brain sugar and so on.
*sigh*
Actually, I have worried about brain damage from my self-starvation stint at Berkeley, but I think I only dropped below 400 calories on a few days... and I can say that I'm certainly at least twice as good at math as I was, though woefully out of practice, so hopefully I'm okay =/