Diet and exercise regimens appear like smiling pit vipers luring overweight people into the starry promise of weight loss but which turns into a depressing cycle of frustration and failure. Unfortunately there is no magic potion to take away all the work and misery of weight control because the underlying relationship between food and activity cannot be changed. A really small caloric debt over a long period of time is the culprit of weight creep. This book is for those people who are willing to make small changes in their eating habits (ammunition) to fight the weight war. This book promotes a new way to think about food, calories, energy, and activity so that the dieter can start to build a new but comfortable lifestyle that is not painful and always works. The rationale for writing this book is to shed light on the various types of diets and why partakers either fail to finish them or return to their weight gain pattern once the diet is completed (That is, they accomplished the weight loss they wanted and they go back to their regular lifestyle.) This begins a non-ending cycle of weight loss/weight gain which is properly called "the yo-yo diet." These people will never get off the yo-yo diet unless 1) they quit dieting altogether the rest of their life, or 2) they learn new eating patterns. Diet programs that sell specialized foods rarely teach new eating patterns. Their focus is on weight loss and so it is sufficient for them to sell the dieter their specialized foods (which are lower in calories.) Following such a diet is guaranteed to accomplish weight loss. Afterward, not having learned anything from the diet program about food/energy relationships, dieters have no tools to keep the weight off. And so weight gain begins again. Special diets advertised on radio and TV work if dieters buy their expensive plan and all their foods and eat only their foods. They also work best if accompanied by a support group, getting weighed in regularly, and exercise. However, they are not helpful after the dieter returns to their normal eating patterns. Losing weight by exercise alone is practically imperceptible and therefore must be accompanied by a strict diet. Otherwise calories lost by exercising will be wiped out by extra food intake. Diet books alone generally muddy the water with nutrition charts, recipes, exercise routines and complicated explanations to be performed and are hard to follow and retain. The best solution to weight loss and maintaining a desirable weight is through weight management. This is a self-help weight management book. It focuses on changing eating habits little by little until a new lifestyle is forged. It provides simple, cheap, effective, painless suggestions for changing eating habits. It provides a practical explanation of the relationship between food eaten and activity, and shows how this information can be used for weight control. It will also show the reader how to confront the promises of exotic diets and figure out if they are reasonable or even possible.