Give this recipe a go Dimi, it’s quick and easy (tho skip the oil and just use butter):
You could have steamed asparagus with it and if you are still on carbs (or weaning off them) steamed baby potatoes as well with lots of clarified butter (butter is really good for you) 
Lost 70 lbs in one year (2016-17) by aiming for 25g of free sugar/day or less. That is a World Health Organization recommendation. Free sugar includes added sugar, but also things like juice where the fibre was removed.
Inspiration included “The Secrets of Sugar” and some lectures by Robert H. Lustig, MD (both on YouTube). For me the key new understanding is that fructose has no benefit and just goes to the liver for removal. Recognizing that I could get glucose elsewhere, and having fresh/frozen fruit that contains fructose was okay thanks to the fibre.
I read a lot of labels and learned to substitute. I’d eat an orange and have a glass of water instead of juice. Salsa without added sugar instead of ketchup.
Even though fat is more calorically dense than sugar, cutting out sugar had the effect of cutting out a lot of processed foods, including a lot of fat (ice cream, pastry, etc.).
Since this was a long-term lifestyle change rather than a diet, the weight stayed off. At least until the last year or two, when I started reintroducing junk food during the pandemic and gained back 20 lbs.
It does work though, and without counting calories. The fibre in the fruits and vegetables helps make food filling while being low in calories.
Nathan.
does rice contain sugar(for a lack of better term)?
Rice is complex carbs (sugar is simple carbs).
Keep in mind rice is high on the glycemic level, which impacts your blood glucose level and can contribute to things like insulin resistance - so you may want to avoid it 
Personally I would get my healthy carbs from things like fruit and honey however I would keep this low if the goal was weight loss, or increase fat burning exercises like deadlifts 
I think deadlifts are one of the best exercises for all-round body composition:
This showed up on my YouTube feed and I though of this thread
It also inspired me to do my first 24 hour fast 
(I usually have two meals a day, so skipped my 2nd meal last night… next time I do it I will skip the second meal on the first day and the first meal on the second day, as I think that may fairly doable as well).
How are you getting on @amolith? Did you try anything after? Any success?
For me, it clicked when I stopped focusing on “dieting” and started thinking about habits. I tried keto and paleo too, but they didn’t stick. What helped was a mix of keeping things simple and sustainable. I focused on portion sizes, adding more protein and veggies, and giving myself grace for the occasional pizza night.
Personally, what’s worked best for me over time isn’t really a diet in the typical sense but more about tracking what I eat without going too strict.
There isn’t. No matter how much or how healthy food you eat it’s hard to lose weight without any training. Recommendations changes from time to time. Currently AFAIK people say that’s ok to have any number of dishes as long as the total energy / day is good for your body. Previously some people said 3 dishes and some 5 dishes. There is no common rule here. If you are really motivated to lose weight go to trainer and ask what’s best in your case as for everyone things work more or less differently.
Meanwhile people in Asia:
Maybe we are not solving the right problem here. Rather than focusing on diet we should equally look at lifestyle. Sitting all day pecking away at a keyboard does not make for a healthly lifestyle and adding work from home into the mix takes it to another level that no diet alone can hope to solve. Getting active during the day, with more sunlight and movement, along with good sleep are factors that should be core to any long term solution. Just my two cents as a fellow dev.
I agree, a sedentary lifestyle has made me gain weight, eventhough I basically eat the same amount and types of food.
I’m kind of skeptical when doctors talk about topics like these. Are they telling us these things so that when we’re sick we visit them and/or get medications (profit)?
I have no idea if it’s true or not, but once again can you say to people in Japan and many other Asian people that they are eating unhealthy product literally everyday? Seeing how healthy people are there and how big rice usage is I think it’s kind of “demonised” product.
Just think that in Asia it becomes popular that eating eggs and sausage in the morning is like killing yourself and when eating corn flakes everyday it raises sugar in the blood drastically.
While I have no problem with visualising that a mass is making a huge mistake, I don’t think rice is so bad when many normal people are eating it every day for decades and don’t have any health consequences.
They live much longer than us. I saw a video when a person that have over 100 years is still working without any problem. So either they are some aliens or rice is not as bad as people says.
