Not exactly. I once owned a gimmick from Richard Simmons called "Deal a Meal." It was a bunch of cards--foods, I guess--with a slotted folder for the day. You could select and plan your meals in advance--or put the card in as you went along--to calculate your diet. It was a good gimmick. If you used it!

At the age of 33--a recreational runner/10K participant up to that point--I trained hard and ran a marathon in 4:17. At the end of the day, I weighed my all-time adult low weight, and all the fat I had left was stored, never to be accessed as always, in my thunder thighs. I keep that in mind when I criticize myself almost forty years later. Neither diet nor exercise will solve every problem.