Ask HN: Is There a Name for This Diet Strategy?

I’ve been losing .5kg per week for 9 weeks (with a 2 week break for illness) using a strategy inspired by a Hackernews comment I can’t find now.

The only rule of the diet is “Don’t weigh more than your target weight for this week”. Then I lower my target .5kg each week. It’s so much more consistent than counting calories, because that is very difficult to do accurately if you aren’t measuring every single ingredient you consume. Furthermore, I think it is teaching me a lot about my body and relationship to food because I’m developing an intuition for how much longterm weight vs short term weight a food adds. It’s also been easy to get back on target after over consuming for a day or two.

I just want to know, is there a name for this strategy or is this something novel?