Everyone hopefully is aware that limiting to 1200cals in a diet needs to be overviewed by doctors when doing that. It is hard to get enough nutrition with that few calories of food without careful planning.
Anecdotally Robard Corporation may have positive long term results with his Very Low Calorie Diet but I am unaware of any study showing long term positive health results from that particular dietary program. Even the sections on his website classified as "case studies" are simply basic FAQ type answers with no real data behind them.
I know. I started this with less information and I got myself informed.
The crux of any diet is what happens as you taper off and go to regular food, and I plan on excelling at that.
I have reached a place similar to when I quit drinking 26 years ago. I am so done with mindless eating.
Being a geek at heart and spending a lot of time at the keyboard, believe me when I tell you that regular food as I knew it is a thing of my past.
I am already researching things that I can make and like to eat that are good for us. I do like to cook so I consider this "challenge accepted" .
I ate fast foods @~1000 calories a meal, sometimes more than once a day, and had a dinner on top of that on many days. I could down half a pizza, once again mindlessly.
This part is not going to be easy by any means, as food addiction is far stronger than alcohol or any other dependency/behavior aberration.