[tekla]

Study after study has shown that when people claim to be on very strict diets, but can't lose weight, they are outright lying about what they are eating or at least lying to themselves (a potato chip here, a candy bar as a treat for myself, this salad that has more cheese than lettuce is so healthy)

There are no studies that have shown that calories in < calories out does not work.

I was one of those people, until I got serious and weighed my food, didn't eat unless at a meal, and weight SLOUGHED off and my parents thought I had gotten cancer or a disease since how fast I lost weight.

[FuriouslyAdrift]

When I started weighing food and counting calories I found that is soooo easy to accidentally slip in a few 100 calories here and there without even noticing.

That's all it takes to make a difference between losing or gaining. I added a mile or two walk every day to burn just a little more calories just in case. Ended up dropping 50 lbs in about a year without any suffering (and kept all but 10 of it off).

[rkomorn]

Yeah. You have to be so regimented for calorie counting to work "as counted".

Weighing food, and being selective about what I eat, on top, really helps.

[pixl97]

Correct, which is why being satieted is very important as it reduces snacking. Eating foods with a lower glycemic index can reduce the speed of the blood sugar spike you get after you eat which can reduce the amount of insulin produced. When you spike you'll start storing fat faster and get hungry sooner leading to eating more.

Also processed foods love removing fiber that takes a long time to digest.