Eating healthy is deffinately more important! If you are losing weight from eating Mcdonalds, you have no idea what you are doing to your insides, high fat processed foods are terrible for you and can cause cancer. Not that I don't have a slice of pizza or french fries every once in a while, but eating that kind of stuff on the regular is really bad for you. My brother ate pizza and crap all the time and never ate veggies, and he got colon cancer at the age of 31 and died 6 months later. I wished I had done something about it sooner, maybe if I had tried to help him earlier on he would still be with us today. Eat your fruits and veggies! They could save your life!

People want to lose the weight without changing their quality of life. To them that implies being able to eat what they want, when they want. So yes it is just losing weight for them . It is also a cultural thing. We are bombarded with these products from a young age and trained to want them. It makes it a habit that is very hard to give up. That is why you will find these items in my logging from time to time. I'm making a lifestyle change but some habits are harder to break than others. Plus there is a great convenience to it... it is fast and easy and always available.
I want to be healthier and eat better food, however I know myself well enough, that if I don't cut myself some slack in this department. I'll probably quit my attempt and this website. Eliminating something entirely just makes me resentful. Thats why in weightloss they advocate moderation and no black/white thinking.

Everyone has their own way of getting to where they are going. I'm just a cheerleader. :drinker:

For me it's mostly about living healthier. Sure, I like losing weight....hell, I LOVE losing the weight. But for me, I know if I don't learn to get the most nutrition from my food choices I won't go the distance and I don't believe I would maintain the weight loss. I don't rule out any foods, but I try to find a balance so that I'm making better choices overall.

I have two ideas that I am focusing on. The first is that I can't apply a temporary solution to a permanent problem. I've a very serious problem with food. Losing weight will not resolve that problem...I have to learn to live and interact differently with food....forever.

And the other is simply No Excuses!

I that Leanna!

There are many types of people on MFP. Some people have to lose weight quickly to meet a deadline (a wedding, the beach). Others want to lose weight but don’t have the slightest idea how to go about it and are not willing to do any research. Some have no weight problems and are here for body building. Others have good intentions but get caught up in socializing and forget to achieve any weight loss. Some finally realize, after trying and failing so many times, that you have to eat a calorie deficit to lose fat, and exercise to tone up.

My problem is that I love to eat, and it IS a problem. To quote Benjamin Franklin “Eat to live, don't live to eat,” I’m definitely the second. Over the decades, I have been on every fad diet, being somewhat successful with WW, but counting points was not understanding what was happening. It took me decades of dieting and failure to realize that dieting does not work. One, it often is too restrictive and two, you can’t maintain a diet for the rest of your life, they are not sustainable. I took a series of eight cooking classes and, fortunately, they used all fresh food and organic fruits and vegetables. We started going to the Farmers Market for our fruits and veggies then I started eating Paleo for about a year. Although I no longer eat Paleo, I learned a lot of good healthy things, the most important being that this journey cannot be a diet, it has to be a lifestyle change that you live for the rest of your life.

For me there are weeks where i will eat 90% clean other weeks where i am eating 45% clean
my intention is to get to a balance where i am eating 75 % or more clean all the time
I will never "diet" again, I am working on eating healthy because I know that i lose weight easily when i do
everyone needs to find their own way of making a healthy lifestyle work for them
for some people it means eating big macs for lunch every day and for others its a salad
what matters is that we are all trying to take care of ourselves in the best way we can at this point in time
finding the way to do that best is not always an easy thing to do
but as long as we all support each others success and support one another in our bad moments
we will be doing ok