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Splenda sweetened bread and butter pickles seem to be available everywhere in my city, but I cannot find splenda sweetened ketchup anywhere :-( I like to eat Trader Joe's long skinny green beans dipped in ketchup :-0 amazon.com sells lots of sugar free items. I've been thinking of ordering ketchup from them.

I have an underactive thyroid, and am underweight. I'm on cytomel, because the more commonly prescribed safer drug did not work. Some docs don't like me to be on thyroid drugs because I'm underweight, but when I'm not on them, my heart rate goes down and I don't metabolize my other drugs properly, and my digestive tract…

Fiber one cereal and skim milk 1/2 sandwich thin with cottage cheese and sugar free orange marmalade on it.

Prepare as taco meat filling, but serve on boiled green beans. I like the long skinny ones from Trader Joes best.Or serve on salad greens with some chopped tomato. Cook up with a bunch of vegetable that are normally on pizza or in spaghetti sauce, add some chopped tomato at the last minute and serve on broccoli or…

Irene's biscotti from Whole foods has just 20 calories a cookie. Some little merengue cookies have just 5 calories each. Stouffers animal crackers are about 7 calories each. Apple slices warmed to room temperature and sprinkled with splenda and cinnamon. Or dipped in diet pancake syrup. Strawberries dipped in warm diet…

I often cook up some veggies, and then add a can of soup to the veggies and the broth that the vegetables made. It brings the sodium down and often also brings the calories down per serving. I just look at the can, and often the picture will give me ideas of what to add. Often a vegetable that is shown in the picture as…

Thank you for the cinnamon reminder! I can't believe I forgot about that?

I'm looking at the list my girlfriend made last night. LOL. Splenda Fat free cottage cheese Fat free plain yogurt Sugar free jams Skim milk Diet pudding and jello mixes Low calorie soups Broth Frozen non starchy vegetables * TONS and TONS* Raw non starchy vegetables *TONS and TONS* Lean deli meats Ground meats that will be…

Friendship brand comes whipped, so is a nicer texture. I try to mimic generic brands by beating and crushing hard with a fork. I like to let mine reach room temperature before eating. I put it on toast a lot. With pepper and tomato on pumpernickel bread. With splenda on a raisin bagel or blueberry pancakes. With orange…

Planning on eating large portions of non starchy vegetables, dulls hunger for the more fattening items. Then just stay on plan before and after. Even if you gain a 1/2 pound that day, staying on plan before and after will quickly resolve the 1/2 pound. I agree with kimjoan, it is about lifestyle, not what we do on the…

I really like the mushroom idea! I like poached egg whites, fat free cheese and salsa on a big bed of well seasoned boiled spinach. And fiber one cereal and skim milk. Orange slices, black tea. The calories are amazingly low for a lot of healthy food.

Could you maybe tolerate a little wild caught fish?

Mild refeeding syndrome causes edema in the hands and feet. I'm just saying, I think sometimes normal/heavy weight people who suddenly start a new diet and exercise program, that significantly jumpstarts their metabolism, might be suffering from edema for the exact same reasons that a thin person does. A lot of people…

I don't think you can do 50% protein without meat and fake foods. Fat free cottage cheese, egg whites and huge amounts of non starchy vegetables are the only high protein vegetarian foods I know of that don't contain a lot of carbs or fat.

Very thin people can easily get refeeding syndrome if they suddenly increase exercise and food intake at the same time. I'm sure heavier weight people can also have a milder reaction to the same conditions. The body doesn't like to be jumpstarted it seems.

More soup, hot beverages, and raw veggies. Warm up, but don't cook, the raw veggies, if cold ones are unappetizing. Make sure to get enough sleep. When not sleeping well, cut back even further on carbs in general, but make sure to allow some in the late PM, if you find that night carb restriction is adding to the insomnia.…