[jgrahamc]

Who your spouse will be is the most important career decision you will ever make.

Surely, ^career^life?

All diets are BS. Avoid processed sugars. Eat less.

Not really. If you are overweight (as I once was) going on a diet can be very helpful as it creates a structure and gives you a plan to follow. Once you reach your ideal weight then you can concentrate on eating the right amount of food.

[wccrawford]

I lost almost 70 lbs on prescription pills and then Weight Watchers. I've gained about 10 lbs back (over a year, when I stopped doing WW!) but I can say for certain that WW definitely gives you good information to help you lose weight, including telling you how to pick appropriate foods and calorie amounts per meal.

It's not the typical "Eat this exactly" diet, but it is a diet, and it works. If you stick with it. But you'll need to continue eating healthily afterwards. You will never again be able to just eat whatever you want, if you want to maintain that weight loss. (And it's totally worth it!)

WW is hardly unique here, either. Any plan that gives you good information and processes will work the same way, assuming it's not based on pseudo-science.

Cutting down carbs (especially processed sugars) has been great, too. Cutting them out completely is dangerous, but I was definitely eating way too many carbs.

[Jaruzel]

> Surely, ^career^life?

Not really, if you have a supportive spouse who can help you make the right job decisions through discussion (who hasn't discussed their job change with their other halfs?), then they /are/ the most important career decision you'll make.