Cooking & Baking

Cutting down on simple sugars is good. Cutting down (or better, cutting out) processed foods with trans fat is good. Whole grains, which you seem to be dismissing with extreme prejudice, help regulate a lot of things most people don't consider, like blood sugar.

Fad diets are the ones out there whose adherents have almost Messianic zeal as they promise consistent weight loss and longevity that Methusaleh would envy. You do know when they've run their course when food processors find ways for those adherents to cheat, like putting sugar alcohols into heavily processed proteins to try to fool people that they're sticking to their diets.

I've had 76 years of watching this shit come and go, my poor mother was a sucker for every one that came along and I'd watch her crack after a few weeks on all of them and gain back everything she'd lost on semi starvation plus a few more pounds every time. This shit does.not.work. Finding a reasonable eating pattern and sticking to it does. Deprivation dieting never will.

Our bodies are designed to accept a certain amount of junk, which makes holidays and birthdays more interesting. Trying to eat like that 24.7 gets us into trouble.