I know that this eye-catching headline has been overused but many people are actually capable of achieving weight loss without "dieting". How is that possible?  The answer is simple.  Stop eating fast food, processed food and restaurant food.  You do not need to skip meals. You simply need to avoid restaurant prepared and processed meals/food. Once a week is okay for a splurge but as a daily habit these foods are a recipe for disaster for your waistline.

If you've not yet seen the nutritional information at your typical fast food restaurant, you're in for a shocker.  Did you realize that a simple bean burrito at Del Taco or Taco Bell has about 400 calories?  If you're like most people, however, the small bean burrito is not what you order.  Instead, most go for the macho or other such burrito selection.  Did you know that these have as much as 1100 calories?

Most people know that burgers are high in calories.  And indeed they are.  Your smaller burgers will typically run 600 calories a sandwich.  Your larger six dollar and sirloin burger varieties will jump you up to a whopping 1100 calories.  Add in a large fry at 600 plus calories and a 20 ounce sodas at 250 calories and in one meal you've eaten the daily caloric requirement of most people (any calories above approximately 2000 per day will be deposited as fat for the average person).

That's okay I usually just get the salad.  Once again you will be stunned to learn that you're doing equally poorly in the calorie category.  For example, the Jack-in-the-Box chicken club sandwich, without dressing, is 517 calories.  If you were to use all the dressing, you would easily be up to over 800 calories.

As most people eat out far more than one time per week it's easy to see why the general population is gaining weight.  Your simple avoidance of dine out food, processed foods and sodas will more often than not result in a tremendous improvement on the scale.