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Originally Posted by mandalinn82
I'm sure that some people have gotten to goal weight simply by switching to all whole foods, but most people have to combine a whole foods approach with some other plan to see sustained loss and maintenance.
This was very true for me. When I was near my highest weight (somewhere between 350-360 lbs), I tried to combine whole foods with mindful eating. For a while, I was quite the food snob, but it didn't work for weight loss. While it takes a lot more whole foods to maintain morbid obesity than junk food and fast food, it's still very much possible.
I learned that I don't have very reliable hunger cues, so mindful eating doesn't work very well for me (and I drive myself to near psychosis trying to determine whether the hunger I'm feeling is "real" hunger or not). No matter what I eat, I have to have a portion-control element, or I do not lose (and often gain). I was even able to stall weight loss on Atkins induction.