All you need to know about successful weight loss is that everything contains artificial raspberry flavoring.

Here's the most effective weight loss technique that I have found:

Avoid sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and added sucrose/fructose in your food. Also stay away from processed wheat products, rolled oat products, pasta, white rice and potatoes (sweet potatoes are okay though.) Cut out soda (even diet soda) and fruit juices. If you want fruit juice, just eat the whole fruit.

If you can cut those and processed foods out of your daily food, you WILL see those pounds start to fall away.

It was so much easier when there was someone else to cook for. Cooking for one is not easy unless you want to eat the leftovers for a week or more.

We have this problem with two of us. We apparently aren't smart enough to cut down the recipes, and having learned portion control has made the quantity of leftovers even larger. Sometimes we put meals into tupperware and freeze them, just so we're not eating the same thing all week long. And sometimes we find things in the back of the fridge that have aged a bit. I ate some tuna lasagna Saturday that we couldn't quite determine which day, or week, we had made it. We don't like to throw anything away.