I hear a lot of people blame a "slow metabolism" for difficulty losing weight, but most of them have normal metabolism. It's useful to get an occasional resting metabolic rate test just to know your baseline. Costs about $50 and totally painless.
Remember the food pyramid? Many of us followed it in our 20s. It was wrong and we paid the price for it.
Subway diets only work if you get the flat bread and veggies only no sauces. But that was not told in the commercials and people like me got meat and mayonnaise at Subway, Quizono's etc.
Now I am counting carbs, fats, trans fats, sugar, sodium, etc.
Sugar free food might have carbs or sodium in it. You need to read the nutritional panel and see what it has.
If I knew this 20 years ago, I wouldn't have gotten fat.
https://www.orlandohealth.com/content-hub/how-too-much-stres....