My understanding from years of study is this:
If our body thinks it is starving it will hold weight
When we do not absorb our nutrients from our food we hold weight
If our system is off we do not absorb our nutrients.
Healing our system will allow us to absorb our nutrients and we can eat as much as we want and not hold weight.
So the KEY is to heal our system.
What needs to be healed and how is the real question to loosing weight
Two main areas:
The pancreatic secretions need to be activated by chewing our food
The villi (hairs) on our intestines need to be healed. If they are damaged we cannot absorb our nutrients, no matter how good we are eating...
How to heal the villi (hairs on our intestines).
Avoid bad oils!
Avoid de-natured foods
Drink Nettle Tea daily and Flax seed tea in the morning.
It takes 90 days to re-grow the villi (hairs) on the intestines and then the weight will begin to DROP off...
Next you will want to think about tightening your skin as the excess weight will be gone...
This philosophy come from CHM translated into western terms in Healing With Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford, you can get it on Amazon for $40 or less...