Share your dieting 'staple foods'?

I don't call it a diet because I don't restrict any foods, just eat less of them.

This made me laugh.

I'm glad you found humor in this .To clarify- I'm not restricting the type of food I eat, I'm just learning to not eat as much.

What folks called dieting before formal diets and fad diets became popular.a

So true, which is what I grew up on. I learned well the difference between good and bad foods. It's taken a lot of work to realize that it was never the food that was bad, but my habit of seeing food and eating it...and eating it...and, well know.

Now I know I can eat what I want in moderation like people who pretty much maintain know how to do.