I've tried and tried and tried many things over the years. My most recent doctor said, "portion control." And then I proceeded to talk about how I eliminated bread at one point and cut back on.... She stops me and says "No. No. No. Portion control!"

Surprised the heck out of me. I started being mindful of my portions and have finally. Ugh. Finally started losing weight. Not a lot but definitely some. ?

Good luck.

You are already doing well with the vegetables it sounds. You can make green smoothies and soups with a blender to keep it fun... something like a nutribullet or blendtec works. Not all blenders will do the job. If you are into healthy eating it's worth the investment.

As far a sweets go, I have that problem too. I don't have ant advice except that if you reduce days for longer enough your taste buds will change and you won't want them as much.

I have followed the research of Peter D'Adamo for the last 14 years but his research has been around for over 30 years. He is the author of "The Blood Type Diet". It's not a temporary "diet" plan, it is a change in eating habits based on your blood type proteins. His research basically states that humans and their food have proteins that are compatible, neutral and incompatible. I came across his research because I had to drop at least 50 pounds for surgery. I lost 53 pounds within 7 months along with 30 minutes of exercise daily. I have stuck with it off and on because old habits are hard to break all at once; especially when friends and family continue in their habits and you are the weakest around cake and bread. But I tried it because it made sense to me.

Advice on diet and eating healthy.
First of all, I am not a nutritionist. I just read up a lot when I had leukemia about nutrition. This is generally what I learned.

Most people who diet count calories but don't differentiate between the types of calories they consume in more than the most general sense. My advice is stop paying attention to calories and only pay attention to how much nutrition foods provide. A lot of calories, especially in America are mostly "empty calories", meaning that although they may provide energy, they don't provide any nutrients.

So, a calorie is a measure of heat. The measure of how much energy is needed to generate that measure of heat. Calories can be "empty" with no nutrients, or can be chock full of nutrients. and the energy levels will be the same either way.

Nutrients are the vitamins and minerals your body uses to build and maintain your body cells and functionality. A healthy diet is one that contains a wide variety of nutrients, the more variety the better.

Processed foods have a higher calorie count, and lower nutrient count. Avoid processed foods altogether. In some cases processed foods use up nutrients in order to be converted into energy (calories). As an example, natural sugars take about 2-4 chemical processes I order to be made useful. Processed sugars take 10-12 (or more) chemical steps to make useful. Those extra chemical steps use up nutrients that could be used to build and maintain your body.

Try to use as much food that is not processed and as close to its natural state as possible. Some foods are better absorbed after being cooked, while others are most nutrient rich if eaten raw. You will have to read up on your own about this because I am not about to write a while book here.

I find things from in our backyard, like tomatoes, are a lot more flavorful than store bought. As a general rule produce picked unripened and ripened artificially, has far fewer nutrients, than produce ripened on the plant.

Most vitamins and supplements aren't worth the money and some are outright junk. They will just drain out the next time you pee. Do research to make sure the brands you guy are actually in a form to be absorbed by your body. Use independent sources for research, not the brand names own website.

So-called "super foods" are great additions to eating a wide variety of foods to get a wide variety of nutrients, but don't rely on them as a solution to all your nutritional needs. Yes, they have a lot of nutrients, but they don't have all the nutrients you need.

Often neglected are "micro-nutrients", which are needed by our body only in very small amounts. If you eat a diet with a wide enough variety you will mostly likely cover these.
I ate vegetarian for several years while I had leukemia, for better health. If you don’t’ eat meat, you need to definitely have a very wide variety of foods, and my doctor recommended I take a B-complex supplement just to be sure I got enough B-12. In ancient Greece, the best Olympic athletes were all vegetarian. Be advised that as a vegetarian you will have to eat a larger volume of food and eat more often (I had to go from two to three meals a day).
Choose fresh produce first, and if not fresh then frozen.
Focus on keeping your food as natural as possible and the amount of nutrients the foods you eat have. If you body gets enough nutrients you may not feel hungry so often. For some people they feel hunger based on the nutrients their body is lacking. This is why people who eat junk food (empty calories, with no nutrients) are always hungry and eating, and why so many Americans are overweight.

Your body hungers for nutrients not calories.
Most processed food manufacturers have caught on to the three tastes the bodies craves. The body likes the taste of fat, sugar and salt. In nature (think in terms of hunter gatherer societies from which we evolved) those tastes helps the body get nutrients. In processed foods there are few if any nutrients, but the body still craves those tastes trying to get the nutrients it needs. So people who eat junk foods (or over processed foods) over eat because their body wants nutrients it isn’t getting, and so make you crave the flavors of sugar salt and fat, to get the nutrients it wants.

There is one diet that works for everyone ,mainly because the western diet is completely wrong for our digestive system.
In a nutshell we should never eat carbs and animal protein at the same time, separately is fine but together is a big no no.

We in the west suffer from many digestive problems from regular indegestion to irratable bowel,crohns disease,diverticultis,ulcers, all caused by our bad combination diets.

So for example this rule means we should not be eating meat and two veg(if it includes starches)spag bog,pizza,burgers,meat/fish sandwiches,meat and rice dishes etc etc, We really are making ourselves sick with the diet we have been brought up to eat.
If you have any of these stomach troubles there is help and hope, I found an online diet that helps, created by lady who used to suffer terribly from stomach problems .Her name is Sherry Brescia and her diet has saved many people much pain and surgery. Doctors know next to nothing about diet and simply prescibe ant acids/painkillers that don't work or eventually surgey which all makes the medical profession rich.

Google Sherry Brescia if you need help ,she save my friend a life of misery when her doctor said they could not help.

[greattastenopain.org]

Carbs its all about the carbs-bread, rolls, potatoes, pasta-limit the white foods.

eat less and do more

Whiskey and donuts. The staff of life.... until it kills you.

Cheeseburgers with green chiles.

Plenty of bacon.

Deep fried Twinkies.

Chocolate syrup and strawberries on French Vanilla ice cream.

Drink plenty of liquids: Dos Equis - Coca Cola - lemonade - eggnog.

Corndogs for the roughage

When I used to be fit (playing rugby union, kick boxing training and gym), I did the whole low G.I. thing to keep blood sugar stable so I'd not get hungry and binge on crap.

The weight fell off me, it was great.

Unfortunately, front row rugby union isn't sustainable into your late 30s and injuries stop you exercising at all. Is a shame cos endorphine rushes are great, as is being fit and healthy but it's so easy to slip back into old habits.

Will defo do low GI again as it's great for eating well and not getting hungry.

I can eat anything I want - I don't lose or gain. But - my hairdresser noticed a huge difference in my hair health when I was eating a shitload of salads and greens.

Yup, three of them. (1) 1983. Eat nothing with added sugar, get a lot of exercise. Lost 60 pounds in six months. Lasted about two or three year. (2) Weight Watchers, 2000. A man following weight watchers even in a half-assed way sees the pounds fall off; lost 60 pounds. Lasted 10 years. (3) half-assed Atkins. Lost 17 pounds in three months. Basically replaced chips with roasted fava beans and pumpkin seeds, replaced bread with buckwheat crisps, stuff like that.

Don't look at me. I live on whiskey, bacon and Klondike bars.

And, one night a week is "Date Night." That's where I eat everything in the fridge that's about to expire.