Junk food was made to pleasure your brain

Count your calories, fast for 16 hours a day, then enjoy food. The biggest problem isn't so much *what* we eat, it's that we eat WAY TOO MUCH.

Eat 1900-2000 calories per day and depending on your starting size you'll eventually have a 6 pack, no matter what you eat.

But to feel the best, just eat a mixture of fat/protein/carbs, but keep your fat *lower* (not low fat). The reason is fat has 3x the calories, so if you go high fat you won't be able to get as much carbs/fat/volume and you'll feel hungry/deprived. I personally have 1 low fat, high protein meal after my fast, then I have 1-2 medium sized meals later, with 1-2 snacks. My snacks tend to be frozen yoghurt, chocolate, pop chips or cake.

"junk food" probably isn't what you think of as junk food. Burgers, chips, pizza etc is all fine. It's more to do with the quality. A 1000 calorie bacon cheeseburger from five guys makes me feel good. 1000 calories of burgers from mcdonalds and I feel a not as good. Stick to higher quality stuff that's closer to what you'd make at home. The simple way to judge is based on how you feel. If you feel good after you eat it, then it's good for you. If you feel bad, it's bad for you. But you can only do that once you're doing fasting + calorie control. If I ate woke up, had breakfast at 500 calories, snacks worth 800 calories through the day, lunch at 500, then had 3000 calories of five guys at night, I would feel fucking sick.

Start tracking calories every day. 1900-2000 per day. Once you hit your target weight, increase to 2100-2300 and maintain that for life, and any time you feel you want to trim down a touch, do the occasional week at 1900-2000. The secret is intermittent fasting. Eating 2000 calories over an entire day is awful. Eating it over 6 hours feels like a feast, plus IF will "factory reset" your body. Your ghreline levels will normalize. That's your hunger hormone, and it's out of control in most people. It's 3pm here and I've been up since 8am and not eaten since 11pm last night and I'm not hungry yet. I've been doing IF since Oct, and I do 18 hours a day.

Anyone who's interested and wants to know more is welcome to ask me questions.