Epic Diet

Dan Empfield has waged war on his last 15 pounds of fat.

"What I've discovered, conversely, is that middle-aged people like me aren't quite the slaves to our weaknesses that we were when we were younger. The gap between our good intentions and our execution has narrowed. We own ourselves. When we make decisions about whether to fall in love, complete a project, keep to a budget or a schedule, or eat appropriately, we find we have the tools to see the decision through, though we may have lacked these tools when we were younger."