(07-17-2017, 10:21 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: Eating less is not going to cut it. It's all about what you eat. If you eat a bunch of processed foods and foods with high calories and carbs but low nutritional value, it doesn't matter how little of it you eat, it's still bad for you and your body is going to respond likewise. Junk is junk. Feed your body with healthy foods and feel how much better it works. 

I found out by accident that I cannot eat even a moderate carb diet at all. I feel sluggish and my brain feels like it's in a fog. I've always eaten pretty healthy but I guess age has decided I can't do much in the way of carbs. When I cut the majority of them out I lost 10-15lbs and felt so much better. I also cut out sugar. The only thing I add sugar to is my coffee. I try to buy stuff that has no sugar added and absolutely refuse to buy or consume anything with high fructose corn syrup in it.

We eat mainly whole foods. The most processed our food is would be the blue chips and salsa and granola I eat. Oh, and my turkey or chicken bacon. My husband does eat cereal for breakfast. Other than that we don't eat anything that comes out of a box or a bag. We eat low carb, moderate protein and moderate to high healthy fats. I can't tell you the last time I ate at a fast food restaurant. Actually we don't really eat out at all anymore. Bad service and mediocre food with high prices? No thanks. 

My in-laws are all overweight. My mother-in-law is borderline diabetic. They eat like most country folks in their 60's eat. They think my healthy diet is weird because who doesn't want to eat a plate full of carbs for supper and even more for dessert? When we go to their house for a meal I usually end up only eating half of what she fixes. And for birthdays she finally stopped making me a cake after asking her for the last four year not to make me one. My MIL and her sister have been on Weight Watchers forever and can't understand why they don't lose weight and ask me how I stay slim. I look at their plates and look at mine and tell them that's how. That and they know how we eat but they don't want to give up certain foods.  

There are a few families in my church whose kids..... I just cringe at how they look because it's all about their diet. They're mostly country kids and do play outside all day, but the food choices are horrific and should be considered child abuse. Tons of sugar, tons of bad carbs, tons of unhealthy food. They are so overweight it's sad and scary.

This indeed is a major factor and probably the biggest factor of them all...Once the weight is put on, it's not easy to take off...People who never had to lose weight think it's just so easy to lose weight, just exercise and eat healthy...That's great but it's not a cure all...Thats the best advice to give people, however it's not a fool proof method...Some people can eat a balanced healthy meal system planned by nutritionists and follow a strict exercise  program and still lose very little weight...It's always the people who never have had to lose weight who say it's a simple thing

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