The Weight Loss Solution

Health doesn't equal weight loss, making it much more complicated than just stating "calories in-calories out". Skinny people can have diabetes and heart disease too.

I personally follow the primal way of eating, which is similar to paleo. It's a little less restrictive. I looked up where the diets were numbered, and paleo ended up at the bottom every time, if only because there wasn't enough information or studies done on it. It's unfortunate, because there are already thousands of people, including myself, who are seeing huge improvements from it. And it isn't as hard as they say. Why is a diet considered "hard to follow" and thus discounts it as helpful when what you aren't supposed to do is eat the processed, unhealthy foods that made you fat and sick in the first place? When you eat well, your body controls itself quite well. Most people find they don't need to watch or count anything, just eat the good stuff.

Through personal stories, people have been finding that paleo/primal helps people drop the weight, fix their cholesterol ratios, and reduce or completely improve their Type II diabetes. I wish it was being researched so we could prove to the world that it works.

Fat is a much better fuel source than carbs, which is why I cringe when the low-fat high-carb diets are advocated as better. Saturated-fat also gets a bad rap, what's better than a fat that occurs naturally and isn't processed like vegetable oils? We're animals too, what do you think our own body fat is made of? Mono- and Sat- fat is the way to go, of course in moderation. No one is encouraging you drink a tub of lard for breakfast.
The Twinkie Diet is horribly misquoted here. The idea was to prove, as DGW said, that you could LOSE WEIGHT on Twinkies. By no means at all did the man get any healthier.

Calorie restriction is somewhat effective for weight loss, but only in a very limited fashion and only as part of a workout regimen and cheat days. The key is just as much the type. Mostly protein, a bit of fats, an early handful of carbs. If you do that at 2,300 calories, you'll be better off than eating pasta every day at 1,700 calories.
OverWeight Watchers really is a good plan. Under the new plan, you get to eat all of the fresh fruit and almost of the fresh vegetables you want. This not only fills you up, but nudges you toward healthy eating. I have been doing it for three months and the pounds are just dropping off. Cityofangels1, have a little compassion. We never know what someone else has been through and how they got heavy in the first place. It is not only just laziness. the older I get, the more i realize that we ought to cut out the gratuitous insults.weight people tend to be as lazy mentally as they are physically. If someone actually wanted to lose weight they would take the time to research their daily baseline calories, determine a daily calorie "budget", research what the calorie content of their meals are, and simply eat less calories than their baseline. Fat people will make every excuse under the sun to explain why they can't lose weight. It is mostly mind over matter.