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Dried fruit! Homemade granola and trail mix (to control the calories!) Soy nuts, roasted chick peas.

Stevia-the-plant is natural, but not approved by the FDA for human consumption. Doesn't make it dangerous, but it is less tested than other alternative sweeteners. Stevia drops or powder contain a chemical synthesized from the plant. This chemical HAS been approved by the FDA after usual testing. Which basically means that…

Ironically, your willingness to see your fear of failure as a personal failing is what will help you address it head on and stare it down. I admire your self-awareness and the work you're doing. Stepping up and speaking your fears is actually a really emotionally brave thing to do, and I hope that it helps you to feel less…

Where I live, "vape" is still used as a term for weed vaporizing. Smoking, and by relation e-cigs are really uncommon in my area, so it always takes me a minute to realize that people aren't talking about cannabis....LOL.

I think it's a genetic thing, like the variances in how people taste cilantro. I can't taste ANY sweetness in any of the artificial sweeteners, just acrid bitterness. Plain yogurt tastes sweeter to me than a yogurt with an artificial sweetener. I don't think it's TEH EEEEEEBIL DEATH, but it ruins my eating experience,…

Items like plain yogurt or milk or unsweetened creamer don't have more sugar than full fat...unless you break it down to sugar-per-calorie, and that's because the fat calories have been removed. So, you know...don't freak out about "more sugar if low fat" on plain dairy varieties. Straw man if not a sweetened food.

Have you seen Springer interviewed? I was surprised at how likeable he actually is, considering how trashy his show comes off. He kind of laughs and shrugs and says it's a sideshow and the "guests" are often the ones who suggest the over-the-top scripted confrontations. Also, even if you wouldn't want to copy him, you've…

Healthy, delicious sabotage.

Thank goodness I'm not the only one. ~high fives you from my scale~

You could also make your own shakes with greek yogurt and veggies, add a little protein powder if you want sweetness and/or a protein boost. Do you prefer all that meal replacement? I'd go crazy at the lack of textural variety, personally.

I'm a people pleaser who absolutely hates being TOLD what to do. I want to do it on my own and dysfunctionally "earn" love and acceptance on my own terms. Crap. back to therapy.

Actually, Jerry Springer is an interesting character, and makes no secret of his own frailties, etc. "Dr." Phil is an unqualified quack who gives TERRIBLE advice to many...and lives it himself. I have more respect for Springer, to be honest.

But it IS without warning. It's not a normal ingredient in a non-diet food. It doesn't belong in food not labeled as such, IMHO. It serves no purpose in a food not designed to be reduced calorie. And, seriously, it tastes like crap.

Yeah, I think a lot of the "no counting calories!!!" as a diet sell counts on people still carrying baggage from those sad little newsprint "calorie counter" booklets at the cash register, and the ladies who'd pull them out of their purse with a little mini golf pencil to tot up each meal. (And women were also told to…

Often only in tiny print on the ingredient list. They used to put the big logo of Splenda or Nutrasweet on the label, not as a requirement, I think it was more of a boast that they had the "new" sweetener in it. (And, in the case of Nutrasweet, it was a reassurance that it wasn't saccharine, which was the only alternative…

What, you think it's good that it gets put in products without warning? I mean, if you like it, fine. But many of us can fully taste the bitterness of artificial sweeteners (most of them aren't even discernibly sweet to me, all I can taste is BITTER.) and wouldn't buy a product if we knew it was in there.

If its the one I'm remembering, you ate papaya first thing in the morning because it had a MIRACLE ENZYME. You then waited a set period of time before eating...something else, I don't remember. It was very big on food timing. I could be remembering the wrong one, I just remember some pinched little middle aged lady on Phil…

I'll be the weirdo that says "Weigh yourself 10 times a day." I found that weighing once a week made me more obsessive and likely to be disappointed. Once I started weighing frequently, many times a day? I could see that most motions in the scale are not signal, but noise. Seeing an overnight drop of 5 pounds? Kind of made…

I'm a Rebel. WOOOOO. Except I suspect that the answers I gave that didn't fit "Rebel" fit "Obliger." Which means I'm pretty conflicted, LOL.

In order to maintain that kind of deficit, you need to have a fairly substantial BMR and TDEE to begin with. OP is not morbidly obese, nor is it likely that she has lots and lots of muscle mass...without those two factors, very few women have the kind of TDEE that can attain a deficit of more than 1-2 pounds per week.…

OK, in that case, I apologise. 90% of the people who trot through here on 1200 per day looking for appetite suppressants for their "specific" diet are people with higher TDEEs than can sustain their goals...which tend to be something like "lose 20 pounds by my friend's wedding next month." (to mention a thread that's going…

Unfortunately, "negative calorie" food is a myth. All foods have some bioavailable calories. Raw veggies do have the benefit of being low in calories and high in fiber, which can give satiety to those whose overeating bugbears are constant nibbling or volume eating.

That is a really disturbing post coupled with your profile pic. Oh, lord. WHY IS THE STAR BROWN?!?!?

I'll add another similar idea to the taco/burrito bar style dinner -- Baked potato night! We do this once every few weeks and it's a big hit with all the eating styles in our family. I bake a bunch of really big russets, and set out butter, greek yogurt, sour cream, steamed broccoli, bacon, cheese, perhaps some…

I think both sweeteners taste awful. Personally, if I want sugar free, I don't try for sweet. If I want sweet, I use sugar, maple syrup, or honey. If you don't like sucralose (aka Splenda), do be careful and read labels. They sneak that stuff into all kinds of foods without warning. Yuck. I got caught out by the Yoplait…

Ridiculous. But, be cautioned, you may get another one for daring to mention the first. It's a bit like living in Nightvale -- if you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.

OK, I don't mean to be rude, but this is some real talk for you. You didn't do enough research if you think that it's a "very healthy" idea to eat far too few calories on a "specific" (see: Named, also Scam) diet and that it would be better to take dangerous appetite suppressants than to change course and pursue a…

Buffets and All-you-can-eat are very regional within the US. I live in an area with neither of those, except for the occasional very high end posh Sunday brunch. We also have no drive through fast-food outlets in my town. Not coincidentally, I live in one of the parts of the country with the lowest rates of obesity. But,…

Detoxes: If you can't spell them, don't do them! (For the foodbabe fans) on second thought, I don't care if you're the spelling bee champeen of the world, still don't do them.