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But if you are concerned about eating foods with cholesterol in them, here is a simple trick: If the food comes from a source that has a liver (cow, pig, chicken, fish etc) it has cholesterol in it. If the food source does not have a liver (all fruits and vegetables, grains, nuts etc) it has no cholesterol.

I have been reading alot about how sugar is toxic, metabolic dysorders and low glycemic foods. The things I have read seem to say that sugar/simple carbs are what raise our triglycerides. I don't believe in eating a HIGH fat diet either though. But doesn't it make sense? For example if eating fat made you fat, would eating…

I buy my clothes at thrift stores. I can usually find a lot of new items too. I don't feel guilty buying a pair of jeans or a blouse for $5. It is so affordable that I can go clothes shopping every week!

Salty food or hot and spicy food get me craving something sweet. I used to reach for a bowl of ice cream to satisfy the craving. I have found that a bowl of fruit works just as well.

Commercial eggs have probably been washed so the shell will be porous. Fresh laid eggs have a "bloom" on them and the shell isn't as porous. I have kept my chicken's eggs in a bowl on the counter for sometimes up to a week without problem. I would think that keeping them in the fridge would make them last longer though.…

Sometimes doing it "one day at a time" is even too hard. Try doing it one hour at a time. I find that logging my food at the beginning of the day keeps me on track too.

I just looked at your food diary, not really at the food, but at the sodium level! WOW! I can tell you from personal experience that the sodium kept me from losing for about a week until I noticed it. I was putting salsa on my egg white omelets in the morning because egg whites, mushrooms, bell pepper really didn't have…

I weigh every morning and it scares me too. Especially the one week I didn't loose ANY weight at all. Then I looked at what I was eating: salsa, which has a lot of sodium. I stopped eating it immediately and over night I dropped 4 pounds! If I had been weighing myself just once a month I wouldn't have caught what was…

I can see how that would be confusing. I guess I meant in place of full fat sour cream or heavy cream.

....in place of sour cream or heavy cream....

I make beef stroganoff substituting mushrooms for the beef and plain, non-fat yogurt for the dairy. It is hearty and filling.

I just discovered these dark chocolate chili chipotle bars at Sunflower market. The other night when I was having a craving I took one square of chocolate and scooped up some chunky peanut butter. I let that melt in my mouth to make it last longer. Delicious!

It sounds like my adiction to alcohol was....3 good days of white knuckling it then the 4th day, boom! drinking again. I also found that the longer I stayed sober the less the cravings were. Now the same thing is happening to me with sugar. I NEVER used to eat candy, not even chocolate. But I have noticed that since I…