Recently I've been keeping a diary of my foods. B/c of this thread, I've been paying most attention to my calories.
I've gone down to 1300 cal/day. Sometimes I'd go over but that would be corrected w/the exercise I did that day.
For instance my AVERAGES for this month at 1300 cal were:
Fat: 54; goal 44
Sat fat: 20; goal 14
Cholest: 202; goal 140
sodium: 2407l goal 2000
Carbs: 195; goal: 200
Fiber: 18; goal 25
Sugar: 88; goal 50
Protein: 61; goal 84

The goals may not be correct. I figured them out in a weird way as there was no one to tell me what they should be at 1300 cal.
Anyway, from what I read in most of this thread, watching calories is my main goal, so watching anything else would be more for health reasons, NOT for weight loss, correct? Even if my carbs were, like 300, but my calories were good, I should be ok in terms of losing weight/inches.

So why is it when we see someone who's overweight that does eat lots of sweets, people say, 'he/she should stop eating sweets'...is it b/c they think the have too much sugar? When in actuality, it's due to the calories only, yes?