[Jhsto]

> The goal is to eat less because you don't feel hungry, not despite feeling hungry. Very few have the willpower to literally starve themselves.

I'm not sure if I understand this correctly, but isn't this a bad practice? I mean, I can agree with the sentiment of eating too many times per day. E.g. if you tend to eat snacks and then soon after a real meal, then you should definitely use your willpower to just skip the snacks before your upcoming meal.

But as far as I know, if you don't exercise and instead just starve yourself, the body first burns through your muscles before it gets to fat. If that's so, then some exercise is crucial to upkeep your muscles even while on a calory deficiency.

[jtuente]

The key point is the first part of that statement, "eat less because you don't feel hungry". It's not the best worded though, but the alternative "only eat until you don't feel hungry" isn't much better since someone can feel like they're hungry when they aren't really. Also your body burns through the muscles to maintain the composition of the other muscles/hormones of your body, because muscles and fat aren't made of the same components.