[gabemart]

>Food was actually not a significant temptation during the fast and I found the discipline aspect to be much easier than the couple of standard diets I've ever tried.

I have experienced a similar reaction. I speculate it's because the cognitive overhead of "no food" is fairly low, whereas the cognitive overhead of constantly evaluating the quality and quantity of food against your diet plan is extremely high.

[darrickwiebe]

I came to the same conclusion. I think fasting is a good example of a weight loss approach that optimizes for low ego depletion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion