First, think. Second, eat food. I know you THINK you EAT FOOD, but it is likely that a good deal of what you and many others among us consume consists of manufactured products with very little resemblance to actual food as provided by nature--plants and/or animals.
This does not imply that you must become a farmer nor live on roots and berries. It means that you must think about what a body actually needs to thrive, and move your diet as close to that ideal as you comfortably can. It is likely that the closer you get, the more weight you will lose, and the healthier you will become.
In terms of both health and fat loss, there is a difference between a processed, "pink slime," burger, and one made from grass-fed beef. There is a difference between processed eggs/egg whites and whole, pastured chicken eggs. There is a difference between fresh fruit and canned fruit. There is a difference between iceberg lettuce and dark, leafy, mixed green salad. The further from its natural state a food is, the less good for you it is. The more ingredients a label has, the less foodlike the substance inside of it is will be.
A subset of packaged and processed foods are all the basically empty calories we love to eat--cakes, pies, candies, cookies, chips, etc. The body wants nutrition, and these items do not contain much in the way of nutrients. They do contain calories. This leads to a craving for FOOD despite too many calories having been consumed already. We know what that leads to..........obesity. The answer, however, is not a low-fat diet, but a low carb diet, with focus on the healthy fats and lots of varied vegetables and natural sources of protein. When we eat too many carbohydrates (sugars and flours) and hydrogenated/trans fats, which most of our nutritionally empty, yummy treats represent, we put ourselves into a fat-storing mode of operation.
