Yep, sorry, Nanoshka, you are so wrong about anyone eating like you being able to not be overweight.

I also eat the way you describe (fruits, veggies, little read meat, (mainly chicken and fish) low fat dairy products, whole grain items only (white rice? white bread? what?), eat deep fried stuff maybe 5 times a year, not alot of sugar, no fruit juices/sugared drinks, don't eat alot of salt/butter/oil, have about 3 glasses of beer/wine a week, don't eat processed foods etc etc etc.....) and yep, I'm still overweight. I average about 1200-1500 calories a day....still overweight. I average 45 minutes of moderate level exercise daily.....you guessed it, still overweight.

Only time in my life I've been able to be 'normal weight' was if I was strictly regimented in what I ate: no more than 20 grams of fat in a day, at least 60 grams of protien, tried to stay at 1200 calories and worked out 2-3 hours a day. That was A LOT of hard work and effort at the age of 25 (which should be easy times) to lose weight and maintain that weight. Now granted, I had a killer body back then and killer heart rate......but now that I have a full time job, a kid, am married, travel a lot for work.....it's just not worth that kind of labor intensive input to get a benefit of 1) looking better 2) lower heart rate (my cholesterol and blood sugar and BP levels are still the same as they were when I was 25)

So get off your uppity 'fat people are bad' high horse and go get a brain.