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The portions served in the US are very large. Eating out there I could easily survive on one meal a day. So, I agree portion size is very important. Also, fat free foods tend to have a lot of sugar in them to compensate for taste and sugar is addictive.

Milk is not very high in fat, so why bother with a low fat milk that is not satisfying anyway. Food needs to be enjoyed.

Also, I don't like the terms used like "guilt free" - you shouldn't feel guilty about food anyway and conversely that kind of terminology gives you free reign to eat unlimited amounts, which is wrong.

Thank-you so much for this, every year we try new ideas and every year we are made miserable by an inability to loose the weight.
When we were kids in the 70's I can't remember there being nearly so many fat people and it is all due to convenience foods beoing so expensive that we still cooked at home and take-away was something that happened on holiday.
We ate proper home cooked food and as kids we played outside.
I know I weighted less when I still had a mum to cook my tea.
I hope your message of common sense reaches mylotters and helps us remember how we should just take care of ourselves everyday.

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I eat 3 vetables per day,3 fruits per day.small amout of lean meat,drink water and walk and it works.

I can do all the reducing bits, all the eating better bits, but what i can rarely do is the exercise more bits .. especially through the winter .. I wish I could work out some way to exercise without having to use muscles .. because the minute I start to do anything in the slightest energetic my flippin' muscles go 'twang' and it takes them ages to heal ..

But I do agree with all the rest .. don't waste money of 'faddy' diets .. they just make pounds for the sellers and they don't change our body pounds just our pockets pounds hehe