Suffering is suffering. After a lot of careful research and deep thought, I have concluded that one should get credit for one-fifth of the calories that one passes up. Suppose that piece of cheesecake contained four hundred calories. Then I get eighty calories credit. Of course I am not sure that one-fifth is exactly the right figure.
Any scientific theory is subject to revision based on new evidence.
However, the official figure chosen at present for the Justice Diet is one-fifth, and I'm pretty sure that when all the evidence is in that it won't be far off. Dieters have a tendency to deceive themselves about how much they eat. Those on the Justice Diet must fight the tendency to deceive themselves about how much they pass up. I not only could have picked up eggs and bacon off the counter, but also a large stack of buttermilk pancakes, slathered with butter and dripping with maple syrup. But suppose that as a matter of fact I wasn't in the mood for pancakes, but was very much in the mood for eggs and bacon.