Now that the debate season is over, I am going to go back to the best method I have found for weight loss: the slow carb diet.
Starting Monday, I am going to go 6 days a week, basically with no carbs other than beans (this includes fruit. . . only vegetables). Then one day I week, I am going to allow carbs into the diet. However, since I am trying to have no refined sugar until next February, that will be out days. So, just pasta and rice to fill the "free days."
I am going to try it for a month and see how it goes, with two months being my maximum until I switch into another procedure.