Low Calorie or Real Food

I eat healthy portions of real food, with the occasional un"clean" treat (like today's pizza slice). I never buy anything labeled "diet" or "lean" or "low" (except low sodium). Real for the win.

Real food please... diet food tastes like cardboard.

I just get the real food too...Im focused on serving size & sticking to the servings I'm supposed tohave not over doing it. I want to eat how I'm gonna eat for the rest of my life. If I start taking things out & supsituting things it doesn't last long for me. I just want to eat it after I've already eatn the diet food. so to avoid a binge I just eat what I want just portion controlled.

normally I try to adjust portions rather than what i'm eating. That said, I do use part-skim mozzarella, substitute ground turkey for ground beef in some recipes, etc.

Since I like to cook, I feel like that's a more realistic, long term way to lose weight than to use pre-packaged diet meals, shakes etc. That said, for some people, they may work really well. I think it depends on the person--a lean-cuisine might be the way to go for someone who was previously getting fast food for convienence sake.

A mixture: If they reduced the fat, it's fine, if they added fake fat - yuck!

2% cheese is fine by me - Fat free cheese is gross. Ice cream is a good example - I would rather eat full fat - than fat free. The fat free has a wierd aftertaste.

I eat "real" bread as opposed to the 45 calories per slice kind - somethings are worth the slurge (I guess).

For the most part I eat real food. Sometimes I have some "Diet" or "Light" items because I like them. I had my first Lean Cusine in over 4 years the other day because the Santa Fe Rice and Beans was just calling my name (Used to be a fav when I worked nights) I try to go with Amy's Organic when I can for pre-made foods to bring for lunch if I don't have leftovers. And I love Trader Joe's. My rationale is that if I eat most of my food as REAL food, if I have a couple of "treats" that are low in calories or processed it's not going to be the end of me. I definitely avoid Splenda and fat free cheese, both make me sick. I've never had a problem with aspertame, but even then, my favorite yogurt is Trader Joe's Fat Free Organic French Vanilla and that uses sugar.

I eat mostly real food...I have a couple exceptions like low-fat string cheese and I will use diet tonic when I drink vodka

Oh...I forgot about chobani non-fat greek yogurt, have tried the 2% and I don't taste the difference so I prefer non-fat

I'm not sure what you mean by "real food" -- as in full fat? If that's your definition, then I eat almost all low calorie foods. I use turkey instead of beef and try to eat only lean cuts of meat (fish, chicken breast, turkey bacon, turkey sausage, trim all excess fat off what pork we do eat). Though I do use EVOO when I cook.

Edit: Re-read the original post. As far as "diet entrees" -- I very rarely eat those. I'd much rather cook than have to have tiny portions of high sodium food chalk full of preservatives. Especially since they don't seem all that good for your diet anyway.

healthy portions of Real Food and some low calorie stuff!