I lost 40 pounds easily this way -> low carb diet. I could lose more if I chose to, but I've stabilized where I want to be and can cheat while still maintaining where I want to be.
There are many studies like the one below. The 8-week limit was for the sake of experimentation only. You stay on the diet until you lose what you want. OR, you can take longer to lose the weight and go on a LOW rather than VERY LOW diet. That's what I did. A VERY low carb diet is difficult to achieve and can have negative side effects.
Beneficial Effects of an 8-Week, Very Low Carbohydrate Diet (VLCD) Intervention on Obese Subjects
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3612489/
Carbs are CHEAP, so convenience and junk foods are LOADED with them to bulk up the net weight. Check the labels of such foods at the supermarket and you'll see what I mean.
FATS are much more expensive than carbs, so fats are easy to reduce since they'll make MORE profit on such foods and yet the jerks charge more, don't they, because they're a "diet" food. BS. FATS are NOT the problem, CARBS are. See, the video below about where the BS "low fat" thing got started.
The glycemic index is a measure of the rate a particular food is converted to blood glucose causing an insulin spike which one wants to avoid. Low glycemic index foods:
https://www.glycemicindex.com/
The following has been further confirmed since 2011. Ironic, isn't it, that the "diet" foods which contain artificial sweeteners can change the gut bacteria and then
cause obesity?!
Haven't heard much about this, have you?
Artificial Sweeteners May Change Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways
Substances such as saccharin may alter the type of bacteria inside us,
could lead to obesity
April 1, 2015 (NO, it's not an April fools article)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/...ay-change-our-gut-bacteria-in-dangerous-ways/
I just noticed that a "diet" yogurt that I used to eat until I discovered the artificial sweetener thing has changed. NOW look:
On the "low fat diet" myth and how it got started:
[video=youtube;oLtQLDptI1g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLtQLDptI1g[/video]