Mrs. GreyWoolfe and I did the diet thing for years. For us, diets aren't sustainable. Last diet we did I lost 200 lbs. Ended up putting it all back on right after we stopped just like every other time. Every diet we've ever tried has been a failure. Weight Watchers and leaning to vegetarianism has been the key for us. WW is not a diet, you can eat whatever you want, it just depends on how many points you are willing to spend. All foods have points and you have so many based on the questionnaire you fill out. It helped us to retrain our minds and thinking and we have been doing it long enough that it's past a habit and has become a lifestyle. The monthly chemotherapy shots I get cause constant fatigue and proper eating has helped ameliorate some of the side effects. Portion control was another thing we learned. We also learned and are continuing to learn good tasting substitutes for the greasy, fatty foods we used to eat. Getting rid of simple carbs was necessary for me to get my diabetes under control. I agree on almond milk, I will not drink a glass of it, especially because we buy the unsweetened. But in a cup of coffee or as the liquid for my oat bran/rolled oats in the morning, I like what it adds for flavor. It is said that doing the same thing for 21 days becomes a habit. It took us a good 3 months to get a handle on the healthy eating thing. Now we do it without blinking. Even going out for dinner, nothing changes. I still get some sort of cobb or Mediterranean salad with grilled protein and dressing on the side. We just got so sick and tired of being sick and tired. And it is wonderful to do simple things like bending over to tie my shoes. I needed to buy pants this past weekend. I was shocked to find I am down to a size 44 from 56 last April. And I can shop cheaply at Walmart until I get to goal weight, then I will buy nice clothes. Going to the big and tall store always made the checking account or credit card scream. We used to say that we were fat and happy, obviously, we were deluding ourselves. Slimming down/eating proper and healthy brings its' own happiness.
Yeah, I've done the Dub-Dub. Did not work for me. Period. I'll worry about the "changing my lifestyle" self-affirmation stuff once I actually lose the weight. Again.
Honestly, the more I actually do hard Keto, the easier it becomes to just not eat stoopit shit. Once you transition into Ketosis, you quickly feel satisfied with less and less volume/weight of food at a meal. Added to that the ritual of honestly accounting for everything you put in your mouth, and your attitude towards food just changes. 
It's the matter of not letting yourself fall off the wagon when the house is full of ready-to-eat teenager foods that becomes difficult. 
mnem
*toddles off to make bacon/eggs for lunch*
SWMBO & I have been on "Lite 'n Easy" for a couple of years, now.
I dunno if it is an Oz only firm or not, but anyhow, it works like so:-
On Friday, we have several large styrofoam boxes delivered, containing our meals for the week. The "Dinners" are all frozen (like TV dinners, but a couple of levels better quality), the lunches are varied, some just refrigerated, some frozen, mostly a mixture.
We opted out of breakfast.
Most of the time, we have very little problem "sticking to the program", with really good results, but unforeseen things do happen from time to time.
Most recently, following a number of 40C days, we had a sudden weather change, with much cooler, very humid weather, culminating in heavy rain.
We lost power at 5:15 pm on Sunday 6th, with it not returning till 1:26pm on Tues 8th.
With nothing to do, but sit in candle lit gloom, we listened to the local Fire & Emergency Service two way radio on an old Uniden scanner.
The "firies" were flat out all Sunday night, responding to "pole top fires"-------they would turn up, make things safe as they could without getting "zapped", then guard the site till "Western Power" turned up.
WP were, of course, equally busy.
Back to us,----no power, no microwave oven, no "Lite 'n Easy", so we backslid into deliciously evil "takeaway" chicken!
Same thing, next day, & soon, the frozen & refrigerated meals were a write off!----More evil stuff for Mon dinner, this time a burger each, with onion rings.
We now have our fridges available, so have replenished them with enough stuff till our next "Lite n' Easy" delivery!
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