You can get plenty obese without touching "chips, ice cream, ranch dressing, cookies, bagels, and other crap". Hell, your username is a reference to one of the

You can get plenty obese without touching "chips, ice cream, ranch dressing, cookies, bagels, and other crap". Hell, your username is a reference to one of the worst things you can drink that is considered "healthy". Fruit juice is essentially sugar in a cup. Yeah, it comes from a fruit, but it's closer to eating an orchard, not a orange. And let's not ignore the fact that your diet could be nothing but your "crap" and you could still lose weight. Because the most important number is the number of calories you are consuming compared to the number you expend. Not to mention, I doubt your diet consists solely of milky lentils and carrots.