The word diet is used here to refer to what you eat and drink, it does not mean a special diet, such as one for slimming. So your present diet is what you eat and drink now, and a better diet is what would be more healthy for you to eat and drink.
There isn't such a thing as an absolutely perfect diet and different people, with different conditions are better avoiding certain foods and preferring other foods.
However, it is suggested here that there is a basic diet for many people in the West that has advantages in improving health and wellbeing. If you need to make major changes in your eating habits and lifestyle, then please consider improving your diet rather than changing radically, all at once, to eat and drink totally different things.
Note carefully that the purpose of this page is to suggest that you consume more 'good' foods and fewer and less of 'bad' foods. It does not insist that you completely avoid 'bad' foods under all circumstances. It suggests that you eat fewer of them and eat less of them. By reducing the quantity and frequency of the 'bad' foods you will be more healthy and have increased wellbeing.
I suggest that a good diet, or a better diet is one where you eat
a variety of foods - especially fruit and vegetables
avoid eating any kind of food frequently
eat more vegetables and fruit, and eat less of other foods.
avoid refined foods, especially added sugar and salt.
It is further suggested that you do not resist the urge to eat or nibble, but you eat or nibble food that is more healthy than previously. For example, instead of eating chocolate or sweets (candy) then you eat fruit or vegetables. If you resist an urge, it may become so strong that you lose control and binge on 'bad' foods. So give in and binge on 'good' foods!
Pay attention to the messages you get from your body. If it craves fat-laden and sweet foods, substitute them with nutritious foods. .
Eat only when hungry, not to please your taste buds. If, part way through a meal, you don't want any more, then leave the rest. This is not a crime and, if you want, the remainder can be stored for later. If you are genuinely hungry then do eat, even if it is not yet meal time. Going for too long without food can lead to hypoglycaemia, and when the time does come to eat, you may be so hungry your will-power will crumble and you may eat unwisely and eat too much of the wrong things.
When you focus on how much you are eating, how many calories you have had in the day, whether or not you are allowed more food, then food becomes an obsession.
What you resist is what you become, what you eventually do or what you have. You cannot NOT do something, you need to do something. Therefore, understand that craving is the result of toxins or allergens and it can be handed by eating wholesome, cleaning food. Such food helps remove these undesirable chemicals from your body. Drinking water is probably the most effective remedy.
Seeking to lose weight will make you compulsive. So, instead seek to improve your health, to be fit and healthy - to feel good. Focus on the benefits the good foods will give you and the harm that the toxic or non-nutritious foods will do to you. Fill yourself up with health-giving and cleansing fruit and vegetables and you will have less room for the sugars and fats. You will then reduce weight easily.
There is one other thing I want to point out. If you have food allergies or food sensitivities, then avoid such foods. You should also avoid foods that you strongly crave. Allergens often affect the brain like opiates, and trigger an addictive response. The more you eat this food, the more you crave it, and the less you eat it, the less you crave it. Any food that you 'must eat' - food that you irrationally crave - should be eliminated. You will therefore reduce many of your problems with weight control and generally health and wellbeing.