Simplest approach to weight loss?

[Wags]

Sit down and eat a leisurely meal each time, preferably cooked at home with fresh local ingredients. Savor the experience and enjoy it with friends and/or family. When you eat slowly your internal mechanism that tells you when you are full has time to work properly. The antithesis of this is to drive thru Wendy's and cram the food down as fast as possible while hurrying to the sale at Walmart.

Read Michael Pollan's book: In Defense of Food. If you can't stand the the thought of non passive media, here's the essence:

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Or, don't worry about it and enjoy, indulge. Die young and have four extra pall bearers.