Eliminating grains is pretty hard and usually costly to replace with other calories. My father is allergic to almost all grains (everything except rice). I'm pretty sure I have his allergy to some extent, and I've tried to systematically eliminate grains from my diet, but it gets difficult. Mostly I just eat less, and have switched to potato/rice. Luckily here in Australia almost nothing has HFCS in it, but most products have cane sugar added instead due to our large cane sugar industry. Not nearly as bad for your health.

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For example, if you are not active, and by "not active" is basically you don't go out of your way to do any activity, a simple diet of cutting your calorie intake to 1000 is usually a good start.
Your intake is entirely personal. I myself usually consume 2500-3000 cal. every day and I maintain a weight between 65-70kg. As you get older yes, you don't require as much, but metabolism is entirely variable person-to-person.