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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The answer is constant vigilance.

I spend 4x as much on food in the US. For staples like pasta, rice, flour, I buy EU imports. I buy bread every other day and pay 8.50 a loaf so it has only flour, yeast, water, and salt.

I make my own baked goods. Never eat anything with sugar added by the manufacturer (no jarred pasta sauce, no cold cuts, no prepared or frozen meals). Only drink coffee and water. Eat fish 2x a week, always wild-caught.

Make mostly traditional recipes: soups, stews, roast meats with vegetables. Live in a relatively walkable place where I can walk to the bakery, coffee shops, grocery store.

Then I go to Europe and eat literally whatever I want and I still lose weight. It's awful but true, to eat well in the States, it's a job. [/quote]

Where do you grocery shop? [/quote]

a bunch of places: online grocers bought in bulk, Whole Foods, Safeway, local grocery store, bakery, farm stand in season, farmer's market (although I have a theory that a lot of the produce in farmer's markets is the same as the grocery store, bought from wholesalers). It's basically a part-time job.

Rest assured there are plenty of overweight ppl in Europe, and the numbers are growing--so much more junk food on the shelves than even 10 years ago, and the numbers keep going up. One annoying thing is the EU is requiring large scale food manufacturers to limit the amount of sugar in products, so they're replacing it with fake sugars.[/quote]

Of course. As I point out in my OP, I never noticed any difference in Germany, both in my eating habits/weight and the size of the people around me. But clearly there is a difference in my behavior when I’m eating certain foods vs others so I’m trying to solve for that. [/quote]

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