I have learnt that moderation is teh key to achieve anything including weight loss. If you try to be on a diet or avoid some kind of food , you will start craving for those foods and that would be worse than being overweight. For past couple of days I tried to eliminate evrything unhealthy from my diet and I was left hungry . My body needs some amount of sugar , some amount of oil , some amount of salt too. Depriving body of all these will create an imbalance. Now I have learnt my lesson that moderation is the key. Even drinking water in moderation is alsoimportant , drinking water endlessly is no good , drink when you are thirsty.Let hunger does not overcome thirst. This is really important. Yes, thi sis true that one will not die without soft drinks .This is a thinbg that can be eliminate dtotally from the diet forever.Another thing is butter it can be healthly replaced by oil .All frozen food s like french fries , patties can be replaced by fresh things In addition to this , one really has to learn to differentiate hunger from craving, which can be learnt only by lot of practice. In my case , it is very difficult for me to differentiate hunger from cravinng , i have to keep asking me again and again ---Am i eating this out of hunger or sheer craving.