Very effective diet foods are..?

Avoid refined carbs: Helpful weight loss diets have natural foods that take time to chew but contain few calories. Examples include carrots, celery, and iceberg lettuce (little/no salad dressing). When shopping for fruits, buy small ones no bigger than a tennis ball, because fruits have sugar. Drinks without calories include water and green tea. A calorie is a calorie, but surely avoid sugar & simple starch calories.

See below: A good book to get is the primal blueprint. It will teach you what you need to know. Teaches fundamentals of good but delicious diet and fun but not time consuming exercise.

Fruits, salads, nuts: The most important piece of the puzzle is to decrease your caloric intake. Eating less will assure you lose weight.