Totally agree on this topic. Eating wisely is the key for losing weight quickly. Here’s an article I wrote called The Quickest Way To Lose Weight – 4 Tips To Boost Your Metabolism for Fast Fat Burning.

Oh course you have to ban "bad" foods. Lila submitted a good list of them - most of which didn't exist a hundred years ago. It's the daily stuffing of all those bad foods coupled with a sedentary lifestyle that caused the weight gain in the first place. You ban them for 95% of the time and then just allow them at isolated times, like at birthdays, weddings, and holiday times. Just like you don't guzzle alcohol all day every day, you quit eating crap all day every day - and only allow it on occasion.

What is this article saying? Eating healthier foods, cutting out garbage food is exactly what needs to be done. Eat healthy all week, then cheat days, sat and sunday. Cutting out junk is the only way to loose wight, fatty ass and all.

Some of the "experts" quoted in this article need to update their knowledge base. A good amount of hogwash here.

Cutting down on high carb foods, is ABSOLUTELY the easiest way of dropping fat. Eating carbs increases insulin production which increases deposits of fat in fat cells. The best way to lose fat is to reduce insulin levels, causing your body to burn fat. Its simple biology, and irrefutable. Sugar and flour, and potato and other high starch foods, should be removed or reduced dramatically from your diet and you will lose weight fast, and feel better. No need to watch calories, no need to remove "fat" from your diet, no need to take supplements. And best of all, no need to commit to crazy exercise regimes you will never keep to!! Vegetables are filled with Fibre, while most "whole grain" food are filled with starch. "Whole grain" is the big lie!

Love the comments. I am not the only one that finds faults with traditional nutritional giudelines. My problem is that I question every guideline and advice. Fortunately there is a lot of information on the internet, some good and some bad. I feel that by trying different ways of eating I have found what works for me.
My doctor gave me the Canada Food Guide, the low fat with bulk of calories from grains and legumes. The result was total disaster. Now I eat more fat including saturated fat and restrict carbohydates. This is the food guide upside down.
My search has led me to believe that it is the sugar (blood glocose level) not the cholesterol that is the cause of many diseases. In the process I have lost my fear of saturated fat and cholesterol. Excess carbohydrates and omega 6 seed oils is what I fear. LDL particles are glycated by glucose. Polyunsaturated fats in LDL particles can be oxidized resulting in modified LDL particles. These modified LDL particles cause heat disease not cholesterol.
Loose weight and be healthy if you do it right.

Banning all of these foods from your diet, will make you healthier and help you live longer, but it would put the fast food industry out of business. Foods not to eat: White wheat flour, especially bleached white flour
Refined sugars (crystalline fructose, maltodextrin, dextrose, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, sucrose, maple syrup, date sugar, cane sugar, brown rice syrup, corn sugar, beet sugar, agave syrup, etc..)
Margarine and other hydrogenated vegetable fats
Refined vegetable oils
Artificial sweeteners
Food additives
Canned foods
Boxed foods such as meal mixes, cereal and pasta
Soft drinks and sugary "fruit" drinks, which are loaded with white sugar, high fructose corn syrup, artificial colors, flavors and other food additives.
Fast food, which is a source of trans fats
Cheese food, packaged cakes and cookies, chips, snack food crackers and other junk food
Processed meat products (sausage, bologna, bacon, packaged ham, and salami) if they contain artificial colors and soy fillers.
Frozen foods such as tv dinner meals, fish sticks, pizza rolls and similar foods
Soy products such as soy milk, soy cheese, soy protein isolate, and other processed soy foods. Natural soybeans taste horrible; it's Nature's way of warning about the dangers of soy. In order to make soy products edible, soy manufacturers have to add large amounts of sugar, MSG and other flavorings and spices.
Powdered milk and eggs: Commercial milk powders contain oxysterols (oxidized cholesterol) in high amounts. The oxysterol free radicals have been suspected of being initiators of atherosclerotic plaques. Powdered eggs contain even more oxysterols.

This is a myth that has been debunked. Intermittent fasting has been shown to be the one of the best way to eat to gain lean muscle and lose fat." Hmmm.... what should I eat to lose weight?" Look up lean gains or warrior's diet

i do two of these no-no's to control my weight- Low Carb Intermittent Fasting has saved my health and sanity.