[AppyPappy]

If you want to lose weight, watch what fat people eat and avoid those foods. Fat people tend to eat a lot of bread, potatoes, beer, snack foods and restaurant meals. Go and do not these things.

[mewzilla]

According to dieticians I've spoken to, its how much you eat, not just what you eat. Most things are fine in moderation, but overweight people routinely eat way more than they need. Look at the changes in dinner plate sizes over the last forty years. And the portion sizes served in restaurants. They're much larger, too. And with folks exercising less....

[SamAdams76]

I've been avoiding the heavily processed supermarket foods like breakfast cereals, snack items (especially those supermarket pastries, cookies, chips, etc.) and frozen "TV dinner" type foods which are basically more chemical than food.

For breakfast/lunch, I usually have a bowl of oats and a tin of King Oscar sardines packed in olive oil with garlic. So I get some kind of fish and olive oil every day which I think is important. My wife and I basically cook every night from raw ingredients. And when I snack, it is usually always nuts like peanuts or pistachios. Those are high in fat but the "good" kind of fat (mono or poly unsaturated). The salt shakers are gone from the house and wherever butter would be used, pure extra virgin olive oil is used instead. Makes a big difference, in my opinion. I'm still overweight but at least I'm healthy and I feel good.

I still think the obesity problem is tied to lack of exercise. For the entire history of human civilization - up until modern times - the average human did manual labor all day long. Even those with sedentary jobs had to walk everywhere and do lots of labor-intensive chores at home.

Looking at pictures of medieval times, the only fat people you saw were those in the royal families who were waited on hand and foot by servants all day. Well these days, we all live like royalty. The average Joe today has luxuries that kings and queens could only dream about just 100 years ago. Until humans evolve with a lower metabolism (to compensate for the lack of physical activity), I'm afraid obesity will continue to be a huge social problem.

[ez2muz]

"If you want to lose weight, watch what fat people eat and avoid those foods..."

Not a bad observation. Also, watch what they do when they're not eating... regular exercise - beyond fork-lifting, would be benificial

[ikka]

If you want to lose weight, watch what fat people eat and avoid those foods. Fat people tend to eat a lot of bread, potatoes, beer, snack foods and restaurant meals

You ever notice how the fattest people eat lots of salad?

I stay away from that stuff and eat prime rib.