India, Nov. 18 -- Losing weight always sounds like a huge, complicated project, but the basics are not that difficult at all. Let us lay it out in a way that cuts through the noise: your body burns calories to run, and whatever you do not burn ends up sitting around as fat. That is the whole equation, according to UCSFhealth.org.

It is not about starving yourself or trying every trend that pops up online. It is about routine - the kind you can actually live with.

Start by easing off foods that fill you up without doing anything useful for your body. You know the list even before reading it - pastries, doughnuts, sugary drinks, candy, syrupy desserts, sweetened juices. These things pile on calories quickly. High-fat foods do the same, so...