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My secret is not to have food in the house that is irresistible.
I'm retired so keeping temptation far away works for me because I am terrible at diets.
That worked fine for me until I got married and then again when we had kids. Fattening garbage is everywhere
The world subsists on carbs. In the Germanic countries, including Scandinavia, it's potatoes. The French elevated the lowly potato to an art, by adding cheese and creme sauces. Eastern Europe is big on potatoes, rice and more recently (very relatively speaking): noodles. The Italians love their pasta. Bread, also, is pretty much a required component of daily meals throughout Europe. Oceania is big on taro root.
Other parts of the world subsist on yams, cassava, and other starchy roots. Plantains are big in parts of Latin America and the caribbean. Ditto: potatoes. Beans of various sorts are common around the world. Traditional in the Americas before the European presence were corn, beans, sweet potatoes, and from the Andes: potatoes, amaranth, and quinoa, as well as a native specie of bean. Manioc (aka: cassava or yucca) in the Amazon. Asia is big on rice, and also noodles.
Just try to travel to any part of the world on a low-carb diet. It's very difficult, if not impossible, to do.
That's like a view from the 90s! Stereotyped too.
Many things changed, and so the cuisine. Most restaurants have some selection for vegetarians and will happily prepare something for every diet restriction. Also heavy foods are mostly in small and rural places. In cities you find a good variety of ethnic dishes and nouvelle cuisine.
There are places just with salads and healthy smoothies. You can buy food by weight and the selection is huge.
I don't drink, thus alcohol can stay forever, but sweets, I inhale them. Thus, I go make groceries every day. If I have a pound of peaches, I'll eat the pound. The other thing is to watch sugar, salt and all the all other stuff. Once doing that, there is almost nothing left to buy at the store that doesn't need preparation. I keep the pounds off by exercise and limiting intake. It's not easy, but doable. Support is also important; not having family members who understand why you are not eating cake and the other stuff.
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