I lost about 50lb quite a few years ago. My husband couldn’t understand how I was eating taco shop, ice cream, French fries, pizza, etc and still losing weight. He’d watched his sisters and step mom go through restrictive diet after restrictive diet, so many times, and that never worked,and here I am dropping weight.

It’s so much easier to just reduce your calories than to cut whole groups of tasty foods out of your diet. I know I naturally started gravitating more toward “healthier” foods (high volume, low calorie, nutrient dense), the longer I was eating how my body needed me to, instead of just all the things. Now I only have “bad” foods for holidays or maybe on the weekend.