on managing weight

someone once told me that after meditating for an hour you don't feel hungry

I used to feel that way after 1 hr yoga session, in around the time I was working in Strand  

I used to fast on Sundays at one time

I used to finish eating by sunset at one time, after reading 'Critical importance of time restricted eating' by Jason Fung - in which he mentioned a study in which intermittent fasting of 18 hrs helped reverse pre-diabetes in young-ish men

Both these have helped me so far

The Ekadasi diet prescribes a no-grain approach, seems similar in spirit to Keto or Paleo diets -  and the straight line in these matters - the SCD diet

also seems to work

The How-not-to-die guy looks at research to conclude that a vegan, plant based diet is they key to health *

The China Study seems to agree

Chan meditation seems to insist on the lotus pose no matter what, and the emphasis on working through the pain - however ,they say the chi rises, in a few years, rising through the stomach, then lungs etc, curing diseases as we go

James Nestor talking about Swami Rama to Joe Rogan in https://open.spotify.com/episode/58Drs6tKeuq82hMTbcDC0G

sources:
* https://nutritionfacts.org/book/how-not-to-die/