You can fast. You can go to low carbs. Or you can just kick corn, sugar, and wheat out of your diet. They all work. You will lose weight. Your triglycerides will fall to almost nothing. Your cholesterol will go down. And your blood sugar will be perfectly under control without medication.
The one thing that doesn’t work is moderation. That is crap. Moderation is allowing yourself to eat high fructose and glucose all day in different forms. The food industry and the drug industry will love you. But your life will suck.
For me it’s wheat.
If I cut wheat out of my diet, the pounds just fall off.
I even ate rice, oats, and corn (popcorn).
Do more meats and low carb veggies, eat those first to fill up on, THEN do the carbs. You won’t eat as many carbs and your blood sugar will begin to adjust and the weight will come off.
Exercise also helps.
You are correct unfortunately. Moderation DOES NOT WORK. You have to go all the way. Nothing white is the best pathway but it is very hard to find things with no sugar in them. Oatmeal seems to be about all you are left with since just about everything has some sugar in it. Some weeks that is ALL I eat. Oatmeal with a little salt and maybe some raisins. I really like food and my wife is an excellent cook who likes to cook so it is really painful to have to restrict the diet.
The principal defect in your thinking is lending any credence whatsoever to the orthodoxy of cholesterol.
The defect in the thinking of many people lies in focusing on weight or dietary restrictions such as corn, gluten, or carbs.
There is only one easy answer and if there’s any one “diet” to outline it, Paleo comes the closest but it, too, has severe shortcomings from where I sit.
Just for the sake of argument, keto is all BS.
People need to take the time to understand health. I hope to publish sometime in the next year to afford some help.
My wife is a nurse and taught nutrition classes for many years. People used to stop us all the time when we were out and about and thank her for helping them to change their lives. This would be many years after she saw them last. She pushed nothing but common sense, moderation and developing healthy nutrition and exercise habits.
People do not stick with the radical crap. There is nothing worse for your health than getting into a cycle of losing and gaining weight repeatedly all while not getting any appreciable amount of real exercise. People that buy into nonsense are the primary reason average life spans in our country have actually started getting shorter.
While most of us eat more sugar than we should and more calories than we should... there is nothing wrong with whole grains such as corn and wheat as part of a healthy diet. Cutting out corn and wheat from your diet is unlikely to have much if any affect on your cholesterol or triglycerides.