We started slowly. First it was cutting back on sugar and using honey, and switching from white rice to brown rice. That was difficult at first as brown rice took some getting used to but now we love it and would not go back.
We also started doing whole wheat bread using hard white wheat flour and I made it myself, so knew what was in it.
Along with all that was switching from margarine to real butter, which was NOT hard at all and cutting out all transfats, and that was before they were telling everyone how bad they really are.
I decided that my body knew what to do with real food over processed stuff.
Cutting out the pasta was harder for mr. mm as he grew up eating a lot more of it than I did. But he still has a weakness for it but now when he eats it, he weighs out 2 oz of dry pasta and that’s his portion.
He’s doing very well maintaining his weight on a shop around the edges of the store kind of eating.
You are doing all of the correct things.
We all function at different rates and ways.
This comment of yours is a key to this puzzle.
“I decided that my body knew what to do with real food over processed stuff.”
Here’s something I learned about butter vs margerine when I read “Fit for Life”.
Very simple.
Which is the easiest to wash off?
Butter. Oleo and Crisco are extremely difficult to wash off.
Butter is the one you should be eating.