Ted Dziuba is the incredibly crass / funny / talented writer from uncov, and he has a few words for those engineers out there contemplating losing a few pounds:
Dieting and exercising suck. This is possibly the most miserable thing you can do to yourself. You are not going to have fun.
To that end, if you are more than 50 pounds overweight, are unmarried, have no children, and your only reason to get up in the morning is your shitty software job, the healthy lifestyle is not for you. You are better off eating yourself to the grave: you will get much more satisfaction out of life by eating cheeseburgers than you will by torturing the pounds of fat off your gut.