Could you add me to your ping list please. I have lost over a hundred pounds on a whole foods balanced diet and I feel great too. Basically if a food has high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated oils, white flour, and a myriad of preservatives I can't easily recognize then I don't eat it. The cravings disappeared and my appetite is normal.
MSG is also particularly bad and is in almost everything prepackaged. It is diguised under a number of different names. Researches found it makes lab animals fat and use it for that purpose.