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That is funny, you found this site the same way I found it lol. When I started here that is what I was working on. Portion control and lowering fat. I ate Lean cuisines for probably the first 2 months of the journey I am on now. They did teach me portion control, they did lower my fat. Now I use fit day and enter my own foods, great site. I am working on getting all the required amounts of the four basic food groups in, have been doing really well for a few months on this. After you watch what you eat for a few months, portion control just seems to come naturally. Gave myself some basic limits on calories, fat and carbs and stick with it. I didn't find exercise helped me lose weight but I do some kind of exercise everyday, I know it is good for the body.
I think the difference between the two systems you are talking about are a persons tastes. I thought about joining one or the other but wasn't happy with the cost. There are some people that like one and some people that like the other. Seems to matter which foods taste better to each individual person.