The Weight-ing Game

How to lose weight? It's easy. Just exercise hard, six days a week. You may well boost your resting basal metabolism by 50 percent. You'll be burning calories night and day, even when you sit on the couch watching TV and while you sleep.

There's no need to diet. But as the Younger Next Year authors suggest, quit eating crap. Ditch the french fries and Oreos. Stay out of the fast food joints, and the processed food aisles in the center of the grocery store. Fill your refrigerator and pantry with healthy foods. Eat half as much twice as often. Aim for 75 percent plant products, 10 helpings of fruits and veggies a day.

The weight will magically go away until you are at maintenance level. If you're like me, that might be even less than you weighed in high school. OK, exercising hard six days a week is not easy. It takes work. Discipline. But it sure beats yo-yo dieting, and spending lots of money on fad food plans that make the author rich and you fat.