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When I buy low calorie diet anything, it flips some psychological switch and it makes me want to binge. At this point in my life, I'd rather eat a small amount of full fat yogurt or whatever, than a lot of a diet food. Plus, it tastes better.

Before I go any further, I would like to say that I'm a third year biochem major, so I'm like, 75% qualified to answer this. Don't rule out sugar alcohols like xylitol, sorbitol, or erythritol. They are, as far as we know, safe. The only disadvantage is they don't satisfy sugar craving. As for 'natural' sweeteners, some…

Get one if you can. They're really compact, but super powerful. I went through a homemade almond milk phase, and it still works like a charm.

Everyone's different, but when I eat anything 'diet' or 'carb free' I have this tendency to eat really high fat, carby foods late at night to try to compensate, so I just stick with tiny amounts of the original food (side note, I hate the phrase real food. If it exists, it's real.) Just be careful of artificial sweetners.…

I do overnight oats, and mini quiches. Sometimes I'll just slice some cheese at the beginning of the week, and have a few slices with half an avocado and some fruit in the morning.

I count it. Then, if there is something that totals 260, or 310, I can just round down, to make a nicer number.

A slightly neurotic INTP.