An interesting piece on intensive mental competition in chess helps lose weight but while high stress can help lose weight, it is holistically a bad way to just reach one goal of weight loss at the cost of mental health. The best secret, as far as I see it, has been discovered by ancient Chinese thousands of years ago. That is to work with chee or Qi in Chinese.
The problem there is that it is hard to accurately locate the acupuncture points on the surface of human body. After years of practice I have come to the awakening point that we can just work with Qi by simply feeling or moving fingers by the bones. That is, each of us can use our own fingers to search for the locations between gaps of bones, the shallower places on the surface of body that the Qi is hiding. This is much easier to train and to let each work on her or himself. Qi flows just like air, so there is no need to search for the pinpoints. Using several fingers in the nearby area by the bones is enough to make it work.
What is amazing about working with Qi is that it works holistically. I once wear pants of size 36, now it gets down to 34. I feel energetic and confident, never have had healthy issues despite no insurance whatsoever. In fact, I eat ice cream, fat meat and whole milk and everything is fine!
As the latest example, I had some dental pains on one of my tooth and I thought i need to see the dentist to have it extracted soon. Guess what, I decided to massage the gums next to all my teeth and after several days of work the pain is gone!