NO FOOD MAKES YOU FAT!

No specific food, in and of itself, makes you fat.

What does?

Eating when you are stressed
Eating to avoid confronting problems
Eating to stifle your emotions (sadness, boredom, loneliness, etc.)
Eating when you are not hungry (ie when it's "time to eat", when food happens to be in front of you, when someone offers you food & you don't wanna say no, when everyone else is eating, & my least favorite, eating many times a day because it will "rev your metabolism")
Not eating when you ARE hungry (and therefore eating much more later)
Continuing to eat when you are no longer hungry (Thanksgiving dinner, anyone?)
Eating so fast that you don't realize you stopped being hungry several bites ago
Dieting & purposely restricting calories (the yo-yo effect)
Restricting certain foods (and therefore binging later)
Feeling guilty because of eating (and therefore binging later)
Being distracted while eating (and therefore not enjoying your food to its full potential & eating past the point of satisfaction)

When your relationship with food is emotional in any way, you will eventually gain weight. You will almost always choose very calorie dense foods by default because those are most likely to induce the pleasure you're looking for when you're eating for reasons besides hunger. That's why most peoples "trigger" or "binge" foods include sugary things and very fatty things.

When your relationship with food is purely physical and you eat just to fulfill your hunger, your body will return to a weight that it is most comfortable at. As long as you've been exposed to a wide range of foods (both those dubbed "healthy" and "unhealthy"), you likely will choose a reasonable balance of all types of food when you're eating only to satisfy the physical need. Think back to a time you were really, truly hungry (if you can remember how that feels). What sounded better, a plate of grilled chicken and seasoned rice, or a bag of gummy worms and an icecream bar?

People on here, and on almost all weight-loss related mediums, put so much focus on WHAT they're eating and HOW MUCH they're eating, and ignore WHY they're eating. They don't realize that WHY they're eating is directly linked to WHAT and HOW MUCH. Most of you don't need to count calories to get down to a good weight, you honestly don't. You're treating the symptoms and not the ailment itself.