You can have my story too if you like. My journal is my sig. So far I've lost over fifty pounds of fat - I started in May.
I haven't gone through much nutrition in my journal, my basic rule of thumb is to be "ingredients not products", so pretty much if something has two or more components I don't buy it, though there are exceptions. But for the most part it cuts down hidden fats, but as-or-more importantly hidden sugars/fructose.
Breakfast tends to be a plain whole wheat cereal, Weetabix (cold milk, warm days) or Shredded Wheat (hot milk, cold days). I started on semi-skimmed milk and have moved to fully skimmed milk. I also drink quite a lot of milk during the day and I'm not afraid to use milkshake powder to make it yummy and a different taste.
Lunch is something like a tuna sandwich, or a bacon sandwich, a can of kippers, something like that.
Dinner is something like pasta and ground beef bolognese (very low amount of meat to tomato ratio, 250g of meat and four cans of tomatoes does four meals), or some home-made Ham Hock & Lentil or Minestrone Soup (I love making soup), or for more convenience can of Baxter's soup and some bread.
Snacks & grazing is fresh fruit, and some dried fruit and lots of nuts (I rotate these to keep interest, walnuts at the moment). Also love my 0% Fat-Free Greek Yoghurt. It's actually a little sour to eat on it's own (unlike the fatty version which is YUMMY) so I mix it through with a tiny bit of a strong-flavoured jam like blackcurrant, or a small drizzle of a stronger-flavoured honey such as Acacia. You don't need much but it takes the edge off.
The worst junk food I eat is a Chinese per week. Quite fatty, but OMG our local Chinese is sooooo tasty.
Working-out wise I'm on a daily or twice-daily Les Mills BODY ATTACK class, high-impact cardio aerobics. I put a lot of effort into each class, each track, and each move. I sweat like a waterfall. My motto is sweat is fat crying.
