@jesse1354 I know that if I said, NO sugar or NO carbs or NO pasta or NO bread, I'd make it my life's work to go get that stuff and wind up binging.
So I do eat all of that, but I track it. I do CICO and so if I want to eat a damned cookie I do. And track it.
My friends who wanted to lose weight and made grand plans to never eat pasta/bread/chocolate/wine/sugar again, are usually able to do it for a few weeks, and then fall hard. And then tell everyone that it's impossible to lose weight.
And obviously some people can cut all of that out and be fine. But i was morbidly obese, and I acknowledge that I will always have that lurking in me, along with food addictions. So I don't harp on not eating X or Y, but I do eat those things, but don't binge. I suspect that if at my heaviest, I was only say 20 or 30 pounds more than I should be, maybe I could ban some things, but I think the way my brain is wired, I'd just make things worse for me, if that makes sense.
As far as what I eat, I figure if I'm going to eat something with lots of calories, I eat a really good whatever it is. I bake, and I'll eat the stuff I bake, but I will not eat crap from say Cosco or BJ's if someone buys cookies from a place like that. And if I am going to eat chocolate, it's going to be good stuff, not some awful barely chocolate.