You can also sip sugar water very slowly instead of the oil. One tb of sugar per 32 oz water bottle. Sip it over at least an hour.

Canola and safflower oil also work very well at suppressing the appetite, and they are very cheap to use at pennies per tb spoonful. If you go with olive oil, just be sure to use the extra light variety which is yellow and not green in color.

You can use both sugar water and oil, just make sure the total calories from both don’t exceed 400 per day.

This diet is very effective and has two big benefits:
1. Using oil or sugar water costs just pennies a day.
2. You don’t have to worry about any of the above mentioned ethical issues.

Any diet requiring that one through go through induction is going to have a high (+90%) failure rate.

:::heavy sigh::: Man, I so wish I had a penis right about now…

Patience, patience. You will soon enough - in about a month…

This alone loses many academics. Its like talking about the mysteries of the quantum world, or shamanism, its lost. People’s preconvieved notions/ideas filter out much of what they “believe”, tis hard to be truly open minded. Filtering, is on the 8 main cognitive distortions, and its used in abundance, whether we like it or not often times (damnit, there goes another subconscious Freud reference).

The 1990’s was noted the decade of the Brain. Neurophysiology has become the paradigm discussed by many academics in the field of psychology of late. People like it when ‘reality’ fits neatly into a cartesian manner. Some areas are just so complex, that its hard to speak in a coherent manner, since nearly anything stated ends up being an overgeneralization. Psychology is one such field, a quadrillion synapses, Alpha through Gamma (tibetan monks) brain waves, variances in neurtransmitters across the brain, hormone receptivity, number of dendritic connections per neuron, amount of myelinated axons per proximic area, axon hilock sensitivity rates, etc etc. makes us human psychology VERY complex, not even getting into the quantum phsyics of brain/mind functioning.

Rigorous scientific research led to an overemphasis on behaviorism, and the endless comparisons from Rats/monkeys to humans, which don’t always equate. No matter how you are reinforced or punished, you still have a choice–just like if someone puts a gun to your head, and tells you to do something that sounds horrific, you still have a choice, you just may not like the outcome of your decision.