To diet or not to diet, what is the question???

So I want to clean up my diet. I have been really looking at what I eat and when I eat it. Really I am not consuming bad things like cake, chips, and sodas. When I divvy out my food it is not in abundance, so when I started looking into dieting I came with the approach that it is not a diet but a life change. I mean really it is my diet but there seems to be some confusion as to what a diet is. I mean if I tell someone I am planning on changing my diet they just look at me as say that I don’t need to lose any weight. But the thing is that in the 80’s to tell someone you are going on a diet means you are giving up all the bad food that makes one fat. But today it is more about eating the right stuff without all the chemicals and in portions that will be digested before you go to sleep. Not to hard right?
Step one: look at what I am eating and read the labels.
Step two: freak out and passout in front of the pantry. When I regain consciousness I trash half the stuff on the shelves.
The labels are there to help not hurt, just read them and know that this is not going to happen in a day.
Biggest thing to give up is SUGAR…
Baby steps.
I will keep you posted.