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Successful dieting and FiT Roads

In today’s Guardian Weekend, Oliver Burkeman identifies leeway for choice as a key to the success of WeightWatchers. "Allowing people a feeling of autonomy rather than insisting on rigid meal plans makes it far likelier they’ll stick to the programme … we need this feeling of autonomy in order to thrive … its points system, while not a straitjacket, is still pretty strict – it’s the…

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Added by Martin Cassini on March 5, 2011 at 11:30 — No Comments

Another parallel

Inspiration again from Oliver Burkeman in today’s Guardian. "The overarching principle [of Tim Ferris's new self-help book] ... is a radical embrace of the "Pareto principle", the economic idea ... that 80% of results come from… Continue

Added by Martin Cassini on January 22, 2011 at 20:30 — No Comments

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