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Michael Dempsey? was in Del Taco mode. He would drive to fast-food chains every single day for lunch and dinner.

The 62-year-old had hypertension and was beginning to show indications of pre-diabetes, but the last thing he thought about was his diet. Dempsey's ex-wife died in a car accident, and even Slimming Factor though they weren't together anymore, it destroyed him. Then he a break down mild stroke that managed to get difficult to play guitar Body of the only things he still enjoyed.

"He was really just depressed. Nothing was running smoothly in the life," recalls his daughter Darya Rose?.

As a neuroscientist and founder of the nutrition website Summer Tomato, Rose knew the greasy burritos weren't helping her father's health insurance and mood. So she'd stop by farmers markets in Bay area and pick up fresh scallops or Padron peppers, and cook for him whenever she visited.

"I only agreed to be pushing this process for years: cooking good food," she says. "My main thing is do not eat processed food - just eat real food, and you do not have to worry about calories or fat or carbs."

Her dad still tied to the takeout.

But then, eventually it clicked. Rose posted a relevant video on her behalf website describing the quantity of salt in processed food, and Dempsey saw it. He was fed up with feeling depressed and realized something - perhaps his sodium intake - needed to change. During a phone call a few weeks later, Rose couldn't believe the words appearing out of her dad's mouth: "There's salt within the processed food," he said. "So I just stopped eating it." Instead, he soon started cooking vegetable stir-fries with a side of fish every evening for dinner.

In 2 weeks he lost 20 pounds. Over the next couple of months he dropped another 20. Three years later, he's right down to 180 pounds, and hasn't gone near a drive-thru. The best part is, his depression has dissipated. "He really wants to live again," Rose says. "He has more friends than he's had since I've known him. He's a girlfriend he's totally in love with, and he's happy about life."

Rose's experience with her father's weight and diet may seem familiar, considering about 2 in 3 Americans are obese or overweight. This past year, the Ama proclaimed obesity to become a disease - but this disease does not have a panacea. As Caroline Apovian, director of Boston Medical Center's Nutrition & Weight Management program? puts it, weight reduction is "not a matter of willpower."

"There is really a reason why people find it difficult to lose weight and it off," she says.

So what can you do if you're Super Slim Bomb concerned dad's diet is the root of his hypertension or mom's weight is putting her at risk of diabetes? We considered weight-loss and health professionals to determine the best way to strengthen your parent lose weight and achieve a healthy lifestyle.