With all due respect, if you don't want to weigh your food and monitor your calorie intake, then you don't really want to lose weight all that much. Because monitoring your calorie intake is 90% of weight loss. Going to see a doctor for some fancy, trendy supplements is NOT a quick fix; it's just a waste of time and money.

Get a food scale and some measuring cups. You will probably get a big wake-up call on how much you are actually eating (your Big Mac post is a good example), but you cannot keep the blinders on about your calorie intake and still hope to lose any weight. If you really want to do it, it WILL involve actual work on your part, not just popping pills and looking for some medical condition as an excuse.

Good luck.

I am a firm believer in natural medicine but shame on this physician for putting you on so many supplements, even HCG, without you even doing the basic fundamentals of eating less.

What you are doing is like sealing a cabin window on the Titanic while ignoring that long gash across the boat. You CANNOT solve this by eating too much food.

You say your diet isn't great. That is your answer. I recommend a digital scale and start counting properly, you really need to get an understanding of food portions.

I know you don't want to track what you eat - but do you hate tracking so much that you want to continue maintaining or gaining?

You can name all the supplements in the world but you aren't going to lose if you don't start eating a lot less. End of. No exceptions.

It's not so much calorie counting in general. I started doing that yesterday on Livestrong. It's more... How to put it... Like measuring my cereal in one cup. My milk in another. Then you have to figure out the sugar before you combine them all. Then if you want, say, a PBJ you have to get out spoons to measure the peanut butter and the jelly. I can't see myself doing that all the time.

And before anyone says I don't really want to lose weight, YES I do. I'm just going to try to eyeball things as best I can. It may not be 100% accurate, but it should be really close.

And how there can be so many calories in two tablespoons of peanut butter, I will never know. :P *silly rhetorical question*

You don't have to measure things or count calories. Doing so might teach you a lot about yourself and not just about peanut butter, but it's amazing how easy to put in twice as much oil or butter than we intend to. Measuring by eyeballing is risky because your eyeball is not at all accurate. I found it to be cumbersome too but I found an easier way. Let's say I wanted to count your cereal, milk, and sugar (yikes, sugar?? really?)

Ok on my scale I'd place a bowl and zero out the count. In goes the cereal, write down how many grams it is. Zero out the count and add the milk in grams. Zero out the count again and add your sugar. No cups, tablespoons, or "eyeballing" necessary. It is possible to become super quick with this, this is how I made up all my plates - zero out the previous item and add the next item.

But really, it isn't necessary to count or track or measure anything if you don't want to. I don't, not at all, I just practice moderation and portion control and I'm fine, losing and content. But whatever you choose to do you will have to put in some type of effort. It sounds like you're asking "how can I get better results without having to put any effort in at all?" You can't run a marathon if you're not willing to take a few steps.

You can definitely eyeball things and be successful, but not at first. How can you eyeball 4 ounces of chicken when you don't even know what 4 ounces of chicken looks like?

Anything new can seem cumbersome at first, that's part of the learning process. Weighing accurately (and with a scale for solids; you should only use the cups and tablespoons for liquids) is the only way to know for sure what you're eating. Nobody said you have to do it for the rest of your life. But you'll need to do it for a little while if you want any clue as to how much you're eating.

I don't use sugar. :P It was just part of the example.

And I DO know to put effort in. I was more confused as to why I wasn't losing when my doctor said I should be easily. But I kinda answered my own question, I guess, just by looking at what I ate yesterday. I honestly didn't think I was eating that much stuff. I mean I know fast food isn't good for you. I guess I just didn't realize how bad.

Ahhh, new question came up. How do you calorie count if the food you have doesn't have nutritional info? I have some Amish-made cheese that doesn't have any. It's natural, 2-year aged cheddar. Just use something similar on the website and go with that?

If you are using a website like myfitnesspal, then I'd look up cheddar cheese. There won't be much variation between cheddars. If you are doing it by hand, then calorieking.com, nutrientdata.com and other websites will have calories.

I agree with Nelie. The difference between this cheddar cheese and that isn't going to be the difference between losing weight and not losing weight.

As to not wanting to measure your food, this deliberate reluctance on your part to have a go is going to cause you problems. YOu can nip it in the bud now or muddle on for a long long time.

The thing is when you want to achieve something, whatever it is, and everyone's telling you, 'this part is pretty essential', and you say, ' no i don't want to do that, i don't even want to try', then you are not giving yourself the smallest chance to achieve what you say you want.

e.g. your a kid at school and you want to go to uni but you don't want to do any homework. Well, unless you are a very bright child, you aren't going to get to uni. End of story. Same here with losing weight.

Measuring stuff really isn't hard. Its only your mental position that's hard. You should just let go and try it. Let go the resistance and the resentment. Life will be better.

As to the peanut butter question, fat has more than twice as many calories as carbohydrates and proteins. That's why there are so many calories in 2 tbsp of peanut butter, butter, oil, and so on. A lot of takeaway is made with a lot of fat. When i fry stuff at home, i use a lot less oil than is used in eateries. The reason they use a lot is because fat makes food more flavourful. I'm not saying fat is bad. But we do need to monitor our fat intake and try to choose better quality fats. I think it was in the don't go hungry diet book that i read more about fats that i didn't really know before. You can find out on the internet no doubt. So read up on the problems with industrially made vegetable oils and transfats. if you understand how food is made and why some of it is problematic and unhealthy, you might be more inclined to make better choices and eat less of the bad stuff.

Emma i found that article but i only read the abstract. As the wiki article seems to suggests that study isn't really sufficient for the claims being made for the stuff as Anne-marie says. But then, i am not in a position to be able to assess the usefulness of that study. Note in the wiki study, all the comments about "citation needed" unsubstantiated assertions e.g. in "says who".

People selling supplements like Anne marie's doctor will be inclined to pick up on any half baked assertions and push them on their patients because they make money from people buying those things and if there's any chance that the patient will benefit, they would prefer to take that chance rather educate their patients to take the more boring path which sounds a little less glamourous and earns them nothing.

Amariel, if you really hate the concept of the weighing and tracking (I get it, but it sure does work), you can try what I did for a while - just eat 1/4 - 1/3 less of everything. Stop before you get to the amount you always used to eat, unless it's a non-starchy vegetable, in which case, go nuts. Take a noticeably smaller portion from the serving dish. Use a smaller plate. It's techniques I learned in WW and still fall back on first. It's portion control for the extremely lazy (me).

Hello Amariel1981. It's is awesome that you want to be healthier! So far the advice that everyone has given is great.
But I feel the need to reiterate the concern that you are focusing far too much on supplements as if the problem with your weight is something outside of your own control. This is both self-defeating and a symptom of possibly being in some denial.
You have control!
There are tons of ways to lose weight, low carb, cut out sugars, etc etc. All the diets that follow one or more of these types of guidelines really amount to one BIG thing:
They will ALL result in a calorie deficit if followed properly.

It is just that eating more/less of a particular type of food sometimes makes it easier to handle the blood sugar lows and highs throughout the day.

So, you don't need to over complicate this. Try using a calorie program online to estimate how many calories you need to eat per day to maintain your current weight. And then use it to estimate how many calories per day you need to eat in order to maintain your goal weight. And shoot to eat a little lower than that.
Eat what you want as long as you stay at or under those calories.

It is THAT simple.

It helps to be mindful not to create to many sugar spikes throughout the day with your choices but it is not necessary for weight loss. Try to keep in mind nutrition slowly incorporating healthier foods as you go is best.

But to start... JUST EAT LESS CALORIES. And be patient both with the scale and yourself. Eating less is a mental/emotional struggle for most.

No supplements, no reasoning with glucose blockers, no thinking that there is something inherently wrong with you or your metabolism. It's ridiculous and I am willing to bet money that there is isn't.

Keep positive!