Richard Geller wrote: >It is hard for me to make huge sacrifices for such an important part of life >as food. I think paleo is already difficult, but the health benefits for me >are so great that there is no serious way I could deviate. But the CR diet >is a whole other level of obsession with health and food. I do think it is >the only way to sustain greater longevity on a statistically significant >basis. I agree with you on the difficulty of CR. The continuous hunger, weakness from loss of muscle, and loss of sex drive are high prices to pay for longevity. Years ago, I went on Weight Watchers, and the caloric "allowance" that they prescribed for me seemed quite low -- something like 1,600 cal/day. Well, I lost a lot of weight, even going below 200 pounds, but eventually I began to feel pretty bad, and I was *always* hungry. I am resigned to the fact that in order to lose weight and keep it off I must endure *some* hunger, some of the time, but that's quite different from continuous gnawing hunger.