There's room for compromise between "adopt extreme diet" and "eat unhealthily". Paleo is one of the many philosophies I studied while I was developing my own eating behaviors, but there are plenty of foods I enjoy too much to fully stick to a plan that cuts happy things out of my life.
The problem this solves, in my mind, is less "unhealthy food" and more "tiny, unhealthy food", and that's interesting to me. Food that packs a lot of calories into a small space can be hugely detrimental to a good diet plan, because you don't realize how much you're eating. Embiggening the food to make you think you're eating larger quantities is a completely silly but still interesting idea.
Incidentally, anybody who finds this visualization cool and is also worrying about their own diet: you might find Picture Perfect Weight Loss worth a look. By comparing the calorie counts of similar foods, it does a great job highlighting which foods are shockingly worse for you than still-tasty, slightly-healthier counterparts. I own a copy and occasionally briefly skim through it, and simply having those visuals has helped train me into avoiding certain nasty cravings. Book preview at: http://www.amazon.com/Shapiros-Picture-Perfect-Weight-Loss/d...
The problem this solves, in my mind, is less "unhealthy food" and more "tiny, unhealthy food", and that's interesting to me. Food that packs a lot of calories into a small space can be hugely detrimental to a good diet plan, because you don't realize how much you're eating. Embiggening the food to make you think you're eating larger quantities is a completely silly but still interesting idea.
Incidentally, anybody who finds this visualization cool and is also worrying about their own diet: you might find Picture Perfect Weight Loss worth a look. By comparing the calorie counts of similar foods, it does a great job highlighting which foods are shockingly worse for you than still-tasty, slightly-healthier counterparts. I own a copy and occasionally briefly skim through it, and simply having those visuals has helped train me into avoiding certain nasty cravings. Book preview at: http://www.amazon.com/Shapiros-Picture-Perfect-Weight-Loss/d...